Acting · Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK · Born August 20, 1943
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).
MovieDoctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieThe Heartsmith
2025
as Umbrella Man
MovieDead Before They Wake
2025
as Evan
MovieDoctor Who at the Proms
2024
as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
MovieThe Apocalypse Box
2024
as Peter Mann
MovieThe Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie
2023
as Knibbles the Beaver (voice)
MovieTalking Doctor Who
2023
as Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
TVTales of the Tardis
2023
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor on Display: Blackpool 2
2023
as Self
MovieSylvester McCoy Uncut
2023
as Himself
MovieNecronomicon
2023
as Book Seller (archive footage)
MovieBug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
2022
as Klakk (voice)
MovieThe Munsters
2022
as Igor
MovieThe Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane
2022
as Igor / Self
MovieChristmas with Strangers
2021
as Self
MovieIn Conversation: Sylvester McCoy
2021
as Self
MovieDoctor Who: 24 Carat
2021
as The Doctor
MovieLost at Christmas
2020
as Ernie
MovieThe Owners
2020
as Richard Huggins
MovieThe Big Night In
2020
as Self
MovieConjuring: The Book of the Dead
2020
as Book Seller (archive footage)
MovieThe Circuit
2019
MovieThe Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
2019
MovieHangover in Death Valley
2018
as General Zwick (archive footage)
TVDoctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018
as Self
MovieThe Doctors: Monsters!
2018
MovieBeauty
2018
as Henry
MovieSlumber
2017
as Amado
TVThe Real Marigold Hotel
2016
as Self
MoviePunk Strut: The Movie
2016
as DJ
MovieDoctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
as The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)
TVThunderbirds Are Go!
2015
as Aezethril the Wizard (voice)
MovieThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Radagast the Brown
MovieDoctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
as Self
MovieThe Seventeenth Kind
2014
as Rusty
MovieThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
as Radagast the Brown
MovieDoctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
as Self
MovieThe Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as Self
MovieDoctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
MovieThe Christmas Candle
2013
as Edward Haddington
MovieDoctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
2013
as Self
MovieDoctor Who Explained
2013
as Self
TVDoctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
as Self
TVFather Brown
2013
as Dr. Angus McClurgy
MovieThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Radagast the Brown
MovieThe Inspector Chronicles
2012
as Uncle Roderick
MovieEldorado
2012
as General Zwick
MovieDoctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
TVPointless Celebrities
2011
as Self
MovieThe Last Chance Saloon
2010
MovieThe Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy
2010
MovieDoctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
MovieKing Lear
2008
as The Fool
MovieDavros Connections
2007
as (archival footage)
MovieDoctor Who: Endgame
2007
as Self
TVMayo
2006
as Reverend Beaver
MovieManilla Envelopes
2006
as Duncan
MovieDoctor Who: A New Dimension
2005
as Self
TVDoctor Who Confidential
2005
MovieThe Story of Doctor Who
2003
MovieMy Doctor Who Diary
2002
TVStill Game
2002
MovieDoctor Who: Death Comes to Time
2002
as The Doctor
MovieThen & Now
2001
MovieDo You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?
2001
as The Foot Doctor
MovieThe Mumbo Jumbo
2000
as Mr. Tallman
MovieYou: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece
2000
as Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman
MovieAdventures in Space and Time
1999
as Himself
MovieWhere on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998
TVThe History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
as Mr, Dowling
Space Cadets
1997
as Self
MovieBeyond Fear
1997
as Michael Samms
MovieSpellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns
1996
as Flynn
MovieDoctor Who
1996
as The Doctor
MovieBidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
as Self
MovieI Was a Doctor Who Monster!
1996
as Presenter
Ghostlands
1996
as Edward Parfitt
MovieThe Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
MovieLeapin' Leprechauns
1995
as Flynn
MovieStranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
MoviePROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994
as Dr. Colin Dove
MovieStranger than Fiction
1994
MoviePolice 5: The Master
1993
as The Doctor (archive footage)
MovieI Was That Monster
1993
as Himself
Movie30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
as Himself
MovieDoctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993
as The 7th Doctor
TVFrank Stubbs Promotes
1993
as Angus
MovieThe Airzone Solution
1993
as Anthony Stanwick
TVGMTV
1993
as Self
MovieThe Children's Royal Variety Performance
1992
as The Wizard
MovieDoctor Who: The Hartnell Years
1991
as Self - Presenter
MovieThe PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
1991
MovieThrill Kill Video Club
1991
as Spoons
MovieSearch Out Space
1990
as The Doctor
MovieThe PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990
MovieThe PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990
MovieThe PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990
MovieThe PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990
MovieDoctor Who: Survival
1989
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
1989
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: Ghost Light
1989
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: Battlefield
1989
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
1988
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: Silver Nemesis
1988
as The Doctor
MovieThe Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
1988
MovieDoctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
1988
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: Dragonfire
1987
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
1987
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
as The Doctor
MovieDoctor Who: Time and the Rani
1987
as The Doctor
TVGoing Live!
1987
as Self
MovieThree Kinds of Heat
1987
as Harry Pimm
It's Wicked
1987
TVDoctor Who Then & Now
1987
as Doctor Who
MovieThe PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1986
TVCasualty
1986
as Kev the Rev
TVThe Last Place on Earth
1985
as Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers
TVThe Bill
1984
TVDramarama
1983
as Donald
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1981
as Turps
MovieElectric in the City
1980
as Kerwin
MovieThe Secret Policeman's Ball
1979
as Various Roles
MovieDracula
1979
as Walter
MovieBig Jim and the Figaro Club
1979
as Turps
TVAn Audience with...
1978
as Self
For the Love of Albert
1977
TVPlayhouse
1974
as Kerwin
TVTiswas
1974
MovieThe Ken Campbell Roadshow
1971
as Self
TVVision On
1964
TVDoctor Who
1963
as The Doctor
MovieSylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?
as Self
MovieBananacide
as Dr. Brunswick
