Sylvester McCoy
Acting • Born 1943-08-20
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
136 credits
The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
Movie • 2019
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
Movie • 2013
Self
Doctor Who Explained
Movie • 2013
Self
The Circuit
Movie • 2019
The Munsters
Movie • 2022
Igor
Doctor Who
Movie • 1996
The Doctor
King Lear
Movie • 2008
The Fool
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Movie • 2012
Radagast the Brown
The Mumbo Jumbo
Movie • 2000
Mr. Tallman
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Movie • 2014
Self
Conjuring: The Book of the Dead
Movie • 2020
Book Seller (archive footage)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Movie • 2013
Radagast the Brown
Necronomicon
Movie • 2023
Book Seller (archive footage)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Movie • 2014
Radagast the Brown
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Movie • 1979
Various Roles
Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?
Movie
Self
The Airzone Solution
Movie • 1993
Anthony Stanwick
Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2
Movie • 2023
Self
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Movie • 1993
The 7th Doctor
The Christmas Candle
Movie • 2013
Edward Haddington
The Seventeenth Kind
Movie • 2014
Rusty
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Movie • 2013
Self
Talking Doctor Who
Movie • 2023
Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years
Movie • 1991
Self - Presenter
Sylvester McCoy Uncut
Movie • 2023
Himself
Then & Now
Movie • 2001
My Doctor Who Diary
Movie • 2002
The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane
Movie • 2022
Igor / Self
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
Movie • 2022
Klakk (voice)
Doctor Who: 24 Carat
Movie • 2021
The Doctor
Punk Strut: The Movie
Movie • 2016
DJ
The Inspector Chronicles
Movie • 2012
Uncle Roderick
The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
Movie • 1991
The PanoptiCon Tapes II
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes V
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
Movie • 1986
Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns
Movie • 1996
Flynn
Dracula
Movie • 1979
Walter
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
Movie • 1994
Dr. Colin Dove
Hangover in Death Valley
Movie • 2018
General Zwick (archive footage)
Christmas with Strangers
Movie • 2021
Self
Doctor Who: Battlefield
Movie • 1989
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Movie • 1989
The Doctor
Dead Before They Wake
Movie • 2025
Evan
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
Movie • 2005
Self
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
Movie • 1979
Turps
Doctor Who: Survival
Movie • 1989
The Doctor
Eldorado
Movie • 2012
General Zwick
Ghostlands
Movie • 1996
Edward Parfitt
The Apocalypse Box
Movie • 2024
Peter Mann
Doctor Who: Dragonfire
Movie • 1987
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
Movie • 1987
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Time and the Rani
Movie • 1987
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Movie • 1989
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Movie • 1988
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Movie • 1988
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
Movie • 1988
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Movie • 1988
The Doctor
Stranger than Fiction
Movie • 1994
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
Movie • 1995
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Movie • 1996
Self
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
Movie • 1995
Leapin' Leprechauns
Movie • 1995
Flynn
Slumber
Movie • 2017
Amado
Three Kinds of Heat
Movie • 1987
Harry Pimm
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Movie • 2011
Manilla Envelopes
Movie • 2006
Duncan
Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?
Movie • 2001
The Foot Doctor
Adventures in Space and Time
Movie • 1999
Himself
Davros Connections
Movie • 2007
(archival footage)
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie • 2003
I Was a Doctor Who Monster!
Movie • 1996
Presenter
Beyond Fear
Movie • 1997
Michael Samms
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
Movie • 1998
The Owners
Movie • 2020
Richard Huggins
Beauty
Movie • 2018
Henry
Lost at Christmas
Movie • 2020
Ernie
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
Movie • 1971
Self
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Movie • 1987
The Doctor
Thrill Kill Video Club
Movie • 1991
Spoons
You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece
Movie • 2000
Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman
Electric in the City
Movie • 1980
Kerwin
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Movie • 2002
The Doctor
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie • 2024
The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
The Heartsmith
Movie • 2025
Umbrella Man
The Doctors: Monsters!
Movie • 2018
The Children's Royal Variety Performance
Movie • 1992
The Wizard
30 Years in the TARDIS
Movie • 1993
Himself
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Movie • 2008
The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Movie • 2015
The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)
Police 5: The Master
Movie • 1993
The Doctor (archive footage)
I Was That Monster
Movie • 1993
Himself
Search Out Space
Movie • 1990
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Endgame
Movie • 2007
Self
The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Movie • 1988
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
Movie • 2013
Self
The Last Chance Saloon
Movie • 2010
Doctor Who: Downtime
Movie • 2025
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Movie • 2025
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy
Movie • 2021
Self
The Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy
Movie • 2010
Doctor Who: Thin Ice
Movie • 2013
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Crime of the Century
Movie • 2013
The Doctor
The Big Night In
Movie • 2020
Self
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
Movie • 2022
The Doctor
The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie
Movie • 2023
Knibbles the Beaver (voice)
Tiswas
TV • 1974
Vision On
TV • 1964
Still Game
TV • 2002
Doctor Who Confidential
TV • 2005
The Bill
TV • 1984
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
TV • 1997
Mr, Dowling
Space Cadets
TV • 1997
Self
Mayo
TV • 2006
Reverend Beaver
The Last Place on Earth
TV • 1985
Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
Big Jim And The Figaro Club
TV • 1981
Turps
It's Wicked
TV • 1987
Pointless Celebrities
TV • 2011
Self
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
Frank Stubbs Promotes
TV • 1993
Angus
Casualty
TV • 1986
Kev the Rev
Casualty
TV • 1986
Ashley Millington
Tales of the Tardis
TV • 2023
The Doctor
Doctor Who Then & Now
TV • 1987
Doctor Who
Father Brown
TV • 2013
Dr. Angus McClurgy
Going Live!
TV • 1987
Self
The Real Marigold Hotel
TV • 2016
Self
Thunderbirds Are Go!
TV • 2015
Aezethril the Wizard (voice)
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
TV • 2013
Self
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Kerwin
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
TV • 2018
Self