Sylvester McCoy
Department: Acting
Biography
Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor and physical comedian. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989—the final Doctor of the original run—and briefly returning in a television film in 1996. He is also known for his work as Radagast in The Hobbit film series (2012—2014).
Known For
The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
2019
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
Doctor Who Explained
2013
The Circuit
2019
The Munsters
2022
Doctor Who
1996
King Lear
2008
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
The Mumbo Jumbo
2000
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
Conjuring: The Book of the Dead
2020
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
Necronomicon
2023
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1979
Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?
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The Airzone Solution
1993
Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2
2023
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993
The Christmas Candle
2013
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
Talking Doctor Who
2023
Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years
1991
Sylvester McCoy Uncut
2023
Then & Now
2001
My Doctor Who Diary
2002
The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane
2022
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
2022
Doctor Who: 24 Carat
2021
Punk Strut: The Movie
2016
The Inspector Chronicles
2012
The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
1991
The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1986
Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns
1996
Dracula
1979
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994
Hangover in Death Valley
2018
Christmas with Strangers
2021
Doctor Who: Battlefield
1989
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
1989
Dead Before They Wake
2025
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2005
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1979
Doctor Who: Survival
1989
Eldorado
2012
Ghostlands
1996
The Apocalypse Box
2024
Doctor Who: Dragonfire
1987
Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
1987
Doctor Who: Time and the Rani
1987
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1989
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
1988
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
1988
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
1988
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988
Stranger than Fiction
1994
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
Leapin' Leprechauns
1995
Slumber
2017
Three Kinds of Heat
1987
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Manilla Envelopes
2006
Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?
2001
Adventures in Space and Time
1999
Davros Connections
2007
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
I Was a Doctor Who Monster!
1996
Beyond Fear
1997
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998
The Owners
2020
Beauty
2018
Lost at Christmas
2020
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
1971
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
Thrill Kill Video Club
1991
You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece
2000
Electric in the City
1980
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
2002
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
The Heartsmith
2025
The Doctors: Monsters!
2018
The Children's Royal Variety Performance
1992
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
Police 5: The Master
1993
I Was That Monster
1993
Search Out Space
1990
Doctor Who: Endgame
2007
The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
1988
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
2013
The Last Chance Saloon
2010
Doctor Who: Downtime
2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy
2021
The Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy
2010
Doctor Who: Thin Ice
2013
Doctor Who: Crime of the Century
2013
The Big Night In
2020
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
2022
The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie
2023
Bananacide
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Tiswas
1974
Vision On
1964
Still Game
2002
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
The Bill
1984
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
Space Cadets
1997
Mayo
2006
The Last Place on Earth
1985
GMTV
1993
Big Jim And The Figaro Club
1981
It's Wicked
1987
Pointless Celebrities
2011
An Audience with...
1978
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993
Casualty
1986
Casualty
1986
Tales of the Tardis
2023
Doctor Who Then & Now
1987
Father Brown
2013
Going Live!
1987
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
Thunderbirds Are Go!
2015
Doctor Who
1963
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
Playhouse
1974
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018