Acting credits
129
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Sylvester McCoy
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 105Series: 24Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 80112
IMDb ID: nm0566809
Known for: Acting
Born: August 20, 1943
Age: 82
Place of birth: Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1963 - 2025
Years active: 63
Average TMDB rating: 6.75
Wikidata: Q455551
Also known as
Сильвестр Маккой • Персі Джеймс Патрік Кент-Сміт
Other jobs
Camera Operator (1)Executive Producer (1)
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).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Sylvester McCoy.
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025 • Movie
as Umbrella Man
The Heartsmith
2025 • Movie
as Evan
Dead Before They Wake
2025 • Movie
as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024 • Movie
as Peter Mann
The Apocalypse Box
2024 • Movie
as Knibbles the Beaver (voice)
The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie
2023 • Movie
as Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
Talking Doctor Who
2023 • Movie
as Self
Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2
2023 • Movie
as Himself
Sylvester McCoy Uncut
2023 • Movie
as Book Seller (archive footage)
Necronomicon
2023 • Movie
as Klakk (voice)
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
2022 • Movie
as Igor
The Munsters
2022 • Movie
as Igor / Self
The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane
2022 • Movie
as Self
Christmas with Strangers
2021 • Movie
as Self
In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy
2021 • Movie
as The Doctor
Doctor Who: 24 Carat
2021 • Movie
as Ernie
Lost at Christmas
2020 • Movie
as Richard Huggins
The Owners
2020 • Movie
as Self
The Big Night In
2020 • Movie
as Book Seller (archive footage)
Conjuring: The Book of the Dead
2020 • Movie
The Circuit
2019 • Movie
The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
2019 • Movie
as General Zwick (archive footage)
Hangover in Death Valley
2018 • Movie
The Doctors: Monsters!
2018 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Sylvester McCoy.
as The Doctor • 1 eps
Tales of the Tardis
2023 • Series
as Self • 25 eps
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018 • Series
as Self • 3 eps
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016 • Series
as Aezethril the Wizard (voice) • 1 eps
Thunderbirds Are Go!
2015 • Series
as Self • 11 eps
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013 • Series
as Dr. Angus McClurgy • 1 eps
Father Brown
2013 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Pointless Celebrities
2011 • Series
as Reverend Beaver • 1 eps
Mayo
2006 • Series
9 eps
Doctor Who Confidential
2005 • Series
1 eps
Still Game
2002 • Series
as Mr, Dowling • 5 eps
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 • Series
as Angus • 1 eps
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
GMTV
1993 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
Going Live!
1987 • Series
as Doctor Who • 1 eps
Doctor Who Then & Now
1987 • Series
as Kev the Rev • 1 eps
Casualty
1986 • Series
as Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers • 7 eps
The Last Place on Earth
1985 • Series
1 eps
The Bill
1984 • Series
as Donald • 1 eps
Dramarama
1983 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
An Audience with...
1978 • Series
as Kerwin • 1 eps
Playhouse
1974 • Series
302 eps
Tiswas
1974 • Series
121 eps
Vision On
1964 • Series
as The Doctor • 42 eps
Doctor Who
1963 • Series