Acting credits
130
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Sylvester McCoy
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 107Series: 23Crew 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: 6.91
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.
5.4
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025 Movie
The Heartsmith
as Umbrella Man
2025 Movie
7.0
Dead Before They Wake
as Evan
2025 Movie
7.2
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
2024 Movie
2.6
The Apocalypse Box
as Peter Mann
2024 Movie
The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie
as Knibbles the Beaver (voice)
2023 Movie
5.0
Talking Doctor Who
as Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
2023 Movie
Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2
as Self
2023 Movie
Sylvester McCoy Uncut
as Himself
2023 Movie
2.0
Necronomicon
as Book Seller (archive footage)
2023 Movie
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
as The Doctor
2022 Movie
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
as Klakk (voice)
2022 Movie
5.6
The Munsters
as Igor
2022 Movie
8.6
The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane
as Igor / Self
2022 Movie
Christmas with Strangers
as Self
2021 Movie
In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy
as Self
2021 Movie
6.0
Doctor Who: 24 Carat
as The Doctor
2021 Movie
5.5
Lost at Christmas
as Ernie
2020 Movie
5.6
The Owners
as Richard Huggins
2020 Movie
9.0
The Big Night In
as Self
2020 Movie
1.4
Conjuring: The Book of the Dead
as Book Seller (archive footage)
2020 Movie
1.0
The Circuit
2019 Movie
The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
2019 Movie
1.0
Hangover in Death Valley
as General Zwick (archive footage)
2018 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Sylvester McCoy.
5.4
Tales of the Tardis
as The Doctor • 1 eps
2023 Series
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
as Self • 25 eps
2018 Series
8.0
The Real Marigold Hotel
as Self • 3 eps
2016 Series
6.2
Thunderbirds Are Go!
as Aezethril the Wizard (voice) • 1 eps
2015 Series
6.4
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
as Self • 11 eps
2013 Series
7.6
Father Brown
as Dr. Angus McClurgy • 1 eps
2013 Series
6.3
Pointless Celebrities
as Self • 1 eps
2011 Series
4.2
Mayo
as Reverend Beaver • 1 eps
2006 Series
8.2
Doctor Who Confidential
9 eps
2005 Series
8.3
Still Game
1 eps
2002 Series
7.0
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Mr, Dowling • 5 eps
1997 Series
6.0
Frank Stubbs Promotes
as Angus • 1 eps
1993 Series
5.6
GMTV
as Self • 2 eps
1993 Series
6.0
Going Live!
as Self • 2 eps
1987 Series
Doctor Who Then & Now
as Doctor Who • 1 eps
1987 Series
6.2
Casualty
as Kev the Rev • 1 eps
1986 Series
6.8
The Last Place on Earth
as Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers • 7 eps
1985 Series
6.7
The Bill
1 eps
1984 Series
5.3
An Audience with...
as Self • 1 eps
1978 Series
7.0
Playhouse
as Kerwin • 1 eps
1974 Series
6.0
Tiswas
302 eps
1974 Series
Vision On
121 eps
1964 Series
7.9
Doctor Who
as The Doctor • 42 eps
1963 Series