Sylvester McCoy
ActingBorn August 20, 1943 (age 83)
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
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War2025 · The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Heartsmith2025 · Umbrella Man
Dead Before They Wake2025 · Evan
Doctor Who at the Proms2024 · The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
The Apocalypse Box2024 · Peter Mann
The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie2023 · Knibbles the Beaver (voice)
Talking Doctor Who2023 · Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
Tales of the Tardis2023 · The Doctor
Doctor on Display: Blackpool 22023 · Self
Sylvester McCoy Uncut2023 · Himself
Necronomicon2023 · Book Seller (archive footage)
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!2022 · Klakk (voice)
The Munsters2022 · Igor
Christmas with Strangers2021 · Self
In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy2021 · Self
Doctor Who: 24 Carat2021 · The Doctor
Lost at Christmas2020 · Ernie
The Owners2020 · Richard Huggins
The Big Night In2020 · Self
Conjuring: The Book of the Dead2020 · Book Seller (archive footage)
The Circuit2019
The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years2019
Hangover in Death Valley2018 · General Zwick (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa2018 · Self
The Doctors: Monsters!2018
Beauty
Beauty2018 · Henry
Slumber2017 · Amado
Zapped2016 · Lord Protector
The Real Marigold Hotel2016 · Self
Punk Strut: The Movie2016 · DJ
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song2015 · The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)
Thunderbirds Are Go!2015 · Aezethril the Wizard (voice)
Crims2015 · Mr Dunlop
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies2014 · Radagast the Brown
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison2014 · Self
The Seventeenth Kind2014 · Rusty
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug2013 · Radagast the Brown
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty2013 · Self
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot2013 · Self
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor2013 · The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
The Christmas Candle2013
The Inspector Chronicles2012
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time2011
The Last Chance Saloon2010
Manilla Envelopes2006
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time2002
My Doctor Who Diary2002
Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?2001
You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece2000
Adventures in Space and Time1999
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?1998
Beyond Fear1997
I Was a Doctor Who Monster!1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary1996
Ghostlands
Ghostlands1996
Doctor Who1996
PROBE: The Zero Imperative1994
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time1993
The Airzone Solution1993
The Children's Royal Variety Performance1992
Thrill Kill Video Club1991
Doctor Who: Survival1989
Doctor Who: Battlefield1989
Doctor Who: Ghost Light1989
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric1989
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis1988
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks1988
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy1988
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol1988
The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis1988
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers1987
Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen1987
Doctor Who: Dragonfire1987
Doctor Who: Time and the Rani1987
Three Kinds of Heat1987
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI1986
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
Big Jim and the Figaro Club1981
Big Jim and the Figaro Club1979
For the Love of Albert
For the Love of Albert1977
Tiswas1974 · Sylvester McCoy
The Ken Campbell Roadshow1971
Vision On1964