Sylvester McCoy

Born: 1943-08-20, Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

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).

Filmography

• Father Brown (2013)
• Casualty (1986)
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
• Thunderbirds Are Go! (2015)
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
• Playhouse (1974)
• Vision On (1964)
• Still Game (2002)
• The Owners (2020)
• The Munsters (2022)
• Slumber (2017)
• Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
• The Last Place on Earth (1985)
• Manilla Envelopes (2006)
• Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)
• Doctor Who Then & Now (1987)
• Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
• The Christmas Candle (2013)
• Conjuring: The Book of the Dead (2020)
• Doctor Who: Battlefield (1989)
• Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric (1989)
• Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)
• Lost at Christmas (2020)
• Bananacide
• Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (1987)
• Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time (2011)
• The Seventeenth Kind (2014)
• Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993)
• Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis (1988)