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Sylvester McCoy

Acting

Born August 20, 1943 · Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

Also known as Сильвестр Маккой · Персі Джеймс Патрік Кент-Сміт

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).

Filmography35 titles

Still Game

2002

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015as The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)

Doctor Who

1963as The Doctor

Father Brown

2013as Dr. Angus McClurgy

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013as Radagast the Brown

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

as Mr, Dowling

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012as Radagast the Brown

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

The Last Place on Earth

as Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014as Radagast the Brown

Dead Before They Wake

2025as Evan

The Mumbo Jumbo

2000as Mr. Tallman

The Bill

1984

King Lear

2008as The Fool

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

2013as Self

Dracula

1979as Walter

Pointless Celebrities

2010as Self

Thunderbirds Are Go

2015as Aezethril the Wizard (voice)

Casualty

1986as Ashley Millington

The Christmas Candle

2013as Edward Haddington

The Munsters

2022as Igor

The Owners

2020as Richard Huggins

Lost at Christmas

2020as Ernie

Slumber

2017as Amado

Three Kinds of Heat

1987as Harry Pimm

The Airzone Solution

1993as Anthony Stanwick

Mayo

as Reverend Beaver

Eldorado

2012as General Zwick

The Apocalypse Box

2024as Peter Mann

Necronomicon

2023as Book Seller (archive footage)

Conjuring: The Book of the Dead

2020as Book Seller (archive footage)

Hangover in Death Valley

2018as General Zwick (archive footage)

The Heartsmith

2025as Umbrella Man

Christmas with Strangers

2021as Self