Sylvester McCoy

Known for: Acting

Born: 1943-08-20 (age 82)

From: Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

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 (134)

MOVIE★ 5.0
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Heartsmith
2025
as Umbrella Man
MOVIE★ 7.0
Dead Before They Wake
2025
as Evan
MOVIE★ 7.2
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 2.8
The Apocalypse Box
2024
as Peter Mann
MOVIE
The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie
2023
as Knibbles the Beaver (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.0
Talking Doctor Who
2023
as Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
TV★ 5.6
Tales of the Tardis
2023
as The Doctor
MOVIE
Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2
2023
as Self
MOVIE
Sylvester McCoy Uncut
2023
as Himself
MOVIE★ 2.0
Necronomicon
2023
as Book Seller (archive footage)
MOVIE
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
2022
as Klakk (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Munsters
2022
as Igor
MOVIE★ 8.6
The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane
2022
as Igor / Self
MOVIE
Christmas with Strangers
2021
as Self
MOVIE
In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy
2021
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.0
Doctor Who: 24 Carat
2021
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 5.5
Lost at Christmas
2020
as Ernie
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Owners
2020
as Richard Huggins
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Big Night In
2020
as Self
MOVIE★ 1.4
Conjuring: The Book of the Dead
2020
as Book Seller (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 1.0
The Circuit
2019
MOVIE
The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
2019
MOVIE★ 1.0
Hangover in Death Valley
2018
as General Zwick (archive footage)
TV
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018
as Self
MOVIE
The Doctors: Monsters!
2018
MOVIE★ 7.0
Beauty
2018
as Henry
MOVIE★ 5.3
Slumber
2017
as Amado
TV★ 8.0
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
as Self
MOVIE
Punk Strut: The Movie
2016
as DJ
MOVIE★ 8.0
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
as The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)
TV★ 6.3
Thunderbirds Are Go!
2015
as Aezethril the Wizard (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.3
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Radagast the Brown
MOVIE
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
as Self
MOVIE
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
as Rusty
MOVIE★ 7.6
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
as Radagast the Brown
MOVIE★ 9.0
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.8
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as Self
MOVIE★ 8.2
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Christmas Candle
2013
as Edward Haddington
MOVIE
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
2013
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.7
Doctor Who Explained
2013
as Self
TV★ 6.4
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
as Self
TV★ 7.6
Father Brown
2013
as Dr. Angus McClurgy
MOVIE★ 7.4
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Radagast the Brown
MOVIE
The Inspector Chronicles
2012
as Uncle Roderick
MOVIE★ 3.0
Eldorado
2012
as General Zwick
MOVIE★ 8.0
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
TV★ 6.3
Pointless Celebrities
2011
as Self
MOVIE
The Last Chance Saloon
2010
MOVIE
The Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy
2010
MOVIE★ 7.4
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.7
King Lear
2008
as The Fool
MOVIE
Davros Connections
2007
as (archival footage)
MOVIE
Doctor Who: Endgame
2007
as Self
TV★ 4.2
Mayo
2006
as Reverend Beaver
MOVIE
Manilla Envelopes
2006
as Duncan
MOVIE★ 9.0
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2005
as Self
TV★ 8.1
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
MOVIE
My Doctor Who Diary
2002
TV★ 8.4
Still Game
2002
MOVIE★ 8.7
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
2002
as The Doctor
MOVIE
Then & Now
2001
MOVIE★ 7.0
Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?
2001
as The Foot Doctor
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Mumbo Jumbo
2000
as Mr. Tallman
MOVIE
You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece
2000
as Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman
MOVIE★ 9.0
Adventures in Space and Time
1999
as Himself
MOVIE★ 8.5
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998
TV★ 7.5
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
as Mr, Dowling
TV★ 8.3
Space Cadets
1997
as Self
MOVIE★ 9.0
Beyond Fear
1997
as Michael Samms
MOVIE★ 4.0
Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns
1996
as Flynn
MOVIE★ 6.2
Doctor Who
1996
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 7.5
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
as Self
MOVIE★ 8.0
I Was a Doctor Who Monster!
1996
as Presenter
MOVIE
Ghostlands
1996
as Edward Parfitt
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
MOVIE★ 4.0
Leapin' Leprechauns
1995
as Flynn
MOVIE★ 7.0
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
MOVIE★ 7.2
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994
as Dr. Colin Dove
MOVIE★ 8.0
Stranger than Fiction
1994
MOVIE
Police 5: The Master
1993
as The Doctor (archive footage)
MOVIE
I Was That Monster
1993
as Himself
MOVIE★ 7.9
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
as Himself
MOVIE★ 4.8
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993
as The 7th Doctor
TV★ 7.5
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993
as Angus
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Airzone Solution
1993
as Anthony Stanwick
TV★ 5.8
GMTV
1993
as Self
MOVIE
The Children's Royal Variety Performance
1992
as The Wizard
MOVIE★ 9.0
Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years
1991
as Self - Presenter
MOVIE
The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
1991
MOVIE★ 8.0
Thrill Kill Video Club
1991
as Spoons
MOVIE★ 8.0
Search Out Space
1990
as The Doctor
MOVIE
The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990
MOVIE
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990
MOVIE
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990
MOVIE
The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990
MOVIE★ 7.2
Doctor Who: Survival
1989
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 8.4
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
1989
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 8.4
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1989
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 7.3
Doctor Who: Battlefield
1989
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 7.5
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
1988
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 7.1
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
1988
as The Doctor
MOVIE
The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
1988
MOVIE★ 8.0
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
1988
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 8.9
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 7.2
Doctor Who: Dragonfire
1987
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 6.2
Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
1987
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 6.5
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 5.5
Doctor Who: Time and the Rani
1987
as The Doctor
TV★ 8.0
Going Live!
1987
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.4
Three Kinds of Heat
1987
as Harry Pimm
TV
It's Wicked
1987
TV
Doctor Who Then & Now
1987
as Doctor Who
MOVIE
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1986
TV★ 6.2
Casualty
1986
as Kev the Rev
TV★ 7.4
The Last Place on Earth
1985
as Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers
TV★ 6.8
The Bill
1984
TV★ 7.3
Dramarama
1983
as Donald
TV
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1981
as Turps
MOVIE
Electric in the City
1980
as Kerwin
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1979
as Various Roles
MOVIE★ 6.4
Dracula
1979
as Walter
MOVIE
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1979
as Turps
TV★ 5.3
An Audience with...
1978
as Self
TV
For the Love of Albert
1977
TV★ 7.0
Playhouse
1974
as Kerwin
TV★ 7.8
Tiswas
1974
MOVIE
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
1971
as Self
TV
Vision On
1964
TV★ 7.9
Doctor Who
1963
as The Doctor
MOVIE
Bananacide
—
as Dr. Brunswick
MOVIE
Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?
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as Self