Sylvester McCoy

Acting · Born 1943-08-20 in 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

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Radagast the Brown
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as Radagast the Brown
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Radagast the Brown
• Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
• Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
• Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty as Self
• Doctor Who Explained as Self
• The Circuit
• The Munsters as Igor
• Doctor Who as The Doctor

TV

• Father Brown as Dr. Angus McClurgy
• Doctor Who as The Doctor
• Tiswas
• Still Game
• Doctor Who Confidential
• The Bill
• The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Mr, Dowling
• Space Cadets as Self
• Mayo as Reverend Beaver
• The Last Place on Earth as Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers