Sylvester McCoy

Scottish actor (born 1943)

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Sylvester McCoy

McCoy in 2018

Born|

Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith

(1943-08-20) 20 August 1943 (age 81)

Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland

Other names|

* Sylvester McCoy
* Sylveste McCoy
* Kent Smith

Education| Blairs College
Occupations|

* Actor
* physical comedian

Years active| 1964–present
Known for| Seventh incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who
Spouse| Agnes Verkaik
Children| 2
Website| sylvestermccoy.tv

Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith (born 20 August 1943), known professionally as Sylvester McCoy, is a Scottish actor. Gaining prominence as a physical comedian,[1][2] he became 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).

## Early life

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McCoy was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith[3] in Dunoon, on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish Catholic mother and an English father who had died in action during World War II a couple of months before McCoy was born;[4] he met his father's family at the age of 17.[3] His mother suffered a mental breakdown when McCoy was eight years old, and was institutionalised thereafter.[5] Prior to adopting his stage name, McCoy was known as Kent Smith; he was unaware of his given names until he was eleven.[5]

McCoy was raised primarily in Dunoon,[3] where he attended Saint Mun's School; he then studied for the priesthood at Blairs College, a seminary in Aberdeen between the ages of 12 and 16,[3] but gave this up and continued his education at Dunoon Grammar School.[4] After school he moved to London where he worked in the insurance industry for five years.[6] He worked in the box office of The Roundhouse for a time, where he was discovered by Ken Campbell.[7]

## Career

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### Early work

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McCoy came to prominence as a member of the experimental theatre troupe "The Ken Campbell Roadshow". His best known act was as a stuntman character called "Sylveste McCoy" in a play entitled An Evening with Sylveste McCoy (the name was coined by actor Brian Murphy, who worked beside Kent-Smith at the Roundhouse Theatre and originated in the Wolfe Tones version of "Big Strong Man"[8]), where his stunts included putting a fork and nails up his nose and stuffing ferrets down his trousers, and setting his head on fire. As a joke, the programme notes listed Sylveste McCoy as played by "Sylveste McCoy" and, conscious that he may have needed to distinguish himself from the American actor Kent Smith as his career progressed, Kent-Smith maintained the stage name. Canadian critic Milton Shulman believed McCoy's name and fictionalised biography were genuine in his review of the Roadshow.[5]

Notable television appearances before he gained the role of the Doctor included roles in Vision On (where he played Pepe/Epep, a character who lived in the mirror), an O-Man in Jigsaw and Tiswas. Every episode of the innovative ATV schools maths programme Leapfrog featured McCoy as "Bert" in wordless sequences filmed out of doors, as he attempted to form regular geometric patterns from different numbers of logs or carpet squares. He also appeared in Eureka, often suffering from the effects of inventions of Wilf Lunn, and as Wart, assistant to StarStrider in the Children's ITV series of the same name. McCoy also portrayed, in one-man shows on the stage, two famous movie comedians: Stan Laurel and Buster Keaton. While playing Laurel, who had adopted his stage name due to the perceived bad luck of his real name containing thirteen letters, McCoy realised his stage name also had thirteen letters and added an "r" to the end of "Sylveste".[5] He also appeared as Henry "Birdie" Bowers in the 1985 television serial about Scott's last Antarctic expedition, The Last Place on Earth.

McCoy also had a small role in the 1979 film Dracula opposite Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence, and has sung with the Welsh National Opera.

### Doctor Who

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With Sophie Aldred during filming of Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)

McCoy became the Seventh Doctor after taking over the lead role in Doctor Who in 1987 from Colin Baker. He remained on the series until it ended in 1989, ending with Survival (his twelfth and final serial as the Doctor). As Baker declined the invitation to film the regeneration scene, McCoy briefly wore a wig and appeared, face-down until the last moment before the regeneration commenced as the Sixth Doctor, with his face concealed by regeneration special effects. He played the Doctor in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time, and again in 1996, appearing in the beginning of the Doctor Who television movie starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.

In his first season, McCoy used his background in physical comedy to portray the character with a degree of clown-like humour, but script editor Andrew Cartmel soon changed that when fans argued that the character (and plots) were becoming increasingly lightweight. The Seventh Doctor developed into a much darker figure than any of his earlier incarnations, manipulating people like chess pieces and always seeming to be playing a deeper game. A distinguishing feature of McCoy's performances was his manner of speech. He used his natural Scottish accent and rolled his rs. At the start of his tenure he used proverbs and sayings adapted to his own ends (e.g. "There's many a slap twixt cup and lap" – Delta and the Bannermen), although this characteristic was phased out during the later, darker series of his tenure. In 1990, readers of Doctor Who Magazine voted McCoy's Doctor "Best Doctor", over perennial favourite Tom Baker.[9] Since 1999 he has continued acting in the role of the Seventh Doctor in a series of audio plays for Big Finish Productions.

Peter Davison, McCoy and Colin Baker at the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend in 2013

In November 2013 McCoy co-starred in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.[10]

In January 2021, McCoy returned to the role of the Doctor alongside Bonnie Langford as Mel Bush, in "A Business Proposal for Mel!" This short, acted as an announcement trailer for 'The Collection: Season 24' Blu-Ray set, which was released later that year.[11]

McCoy reprised the role of the Doctor in the 2022 special "The Power of the Doctor", and again in the series Tales of the TARDIS.[12]

In a 2024 interview,[13] McCoy stated that Russell T Davies had reintroduced past Doctors in Tales of the TARDIS with the possibility that they "may be coming back" in future stories, leaving the door open for a potential return.[14]

### Later work

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McCoy's television roles since Doctor Who have included Michael Sams in the 1997 drama Beyond Fear, shown on the first night of broadcast of Channel 5. In 1988, while still appearing in Doctor Who, McCoy presented a BBC children's programme called What's Your Story?, in which viewers were invited to phone in suggestions for the continuation of an ongoing drama.

He has also acted extensively in theatre in productions as diverse as pantomime and Molière. He played Grandpa Jock in John McGrath's A Satire of the Four Estaites (1996) at the Edinburgh Festival. He played the role of Snuff in the macabre BBC Radio 4 comedy series The Cabaret of Dr Caligari.

McCoy missed out on a role in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl[15] and was the second choice to play the role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.[7] In 1991, he presented the Doctor Who video documentary release The Hartnell Years showcasing selected episodes of missing stories from the First Doctor's era.

McCoy appeared as the lawyer Dowling in a BBC Production of Henry Fielding's novel, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling. In 2001 he appeared in Paul Sellar's asylum comedy "The Dead Move Fast" at the Gilded Balloon as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, playing the role of Doctor Mallinson. In 2012 he played the part of the suicidal Mr. Peters in JC Marshall's play, Plume, at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.[16]

McCoy performing with Sandi Toksvig in The Lovely Russell Concert in June 2008

McCoy has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and in King Lear in 2007, playing the Fool to Ian McKellen's Lear,[17] a performance which made use of McCoy's ability to play the spoons. The RSC production with McKellen and McCoy was staged in Melbourne, during late July/early August 2007 and Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand, during mid to late August 2007. It came into residence at the New London Theatre in late 2007, ending its run in January 2008. He reprised the role for the 2008 television movie of the production.[18]

In May 2008 he performed with the Carl Rosa Opera Company in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, playing the title role. He only performed with the company briefly, for the week of the show's run performing at the Sheffield Lyceum. Despite being set in Japan, he was able to demonstrate his ability to play the spoons by using his fan. In 2009 McCoy played the character of Mr. Mushnik in the Chocolate Factory's production of Little Shop of Horrors.[19]

He has also made guest appearances in the television series The Bill, the Rab C. Nesbitt episode "Father" as Rab's mentally ill brother Gash Sr.[20] and the Still Game episode "Oot" (AKA "Out"), where he played a hermit-type character adjusting to life in modern Glasgow, having remained in his house for over 30 years. In October 2008, he had a minor guest role as an injured ventriloquist on Casualty. In the same month McCoy guest starred in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors, playing an actor who once played the time-travelling hero of a children's television series called "The Amazing Lollipop Man". The role was written as a tribute to McCoy.[21][22]

McCoy in 2014

In January and February 2016, McCoy appeared in the three-part BBC series The Real Marigold Hotel, which followed a group of celebrity senior citizens including Miriam Margolyes and Wayne Sleep on a journey to India.[23]

In 2017 he returned to the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe, in the production A Joke alongside Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Picardo.[24]

### The Hobbit trilogy

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McCoy began filming for The Hobbit, a three-part adaptation of the book, in 2011. He portrays the wizard Radagast,[25] alongside fellow King Lear actor Ian McKellen who reprises his role as Gandalf.

Although the character of Radagast is only alluded to in The Hobbit, and only a minor character in The Lord of the Rings, the part was expanded for the films.

## Personal life

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McCoy and his wife, Agnes Verkaik,[26] have two sons. They were filmed for the Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric playing Haemovores, but their scenes were deleted from the finished release.[27] According to McCoy, his sons live in Holland and Thailand.[28]

He was brought up a Catholic by his maternal grandmother and aunts[4] but is now an atheist.[29]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCoy spent some of lockdown living in France.[28]

## Filmography

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### Film

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1979 | Dracula | Walter | As Sylveste McCoy
All the Fun of the Fair | Scotch Jack |
The Secret Policeman's Ball | Sylvester McCoy |
1987 | Three Kinds of Heat | Harry Pimm |
1995 | Leapin' Leprechauns! | Flynn |
1996  | Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns | Flynn |
1997 | Beyond Fear | Michael Sams |
2000 | The Mumbo Jumbo | Mr. Tallman |
2004 | Griffin | Grim |
2006 | The Battersea Ripper | Duncan |
2008 | King Lear | The Fool |
2009 | The Academy | Felix |
The Academy Part 2: First Impressions | Felix |
2010 | Punk Strut: The Movie | DJ |
2012 | Eldorado | General Zwick |
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Radagast |
2013 | The Christmas Candle | Edward Haddington |
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Radagast |
Quest: A Tall Tale | Ardan | Voice
2014 | The Seventeenth Kind | Rusty |
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Radagast |
2017 | Slumber | Amado |
2020 | You | Vasilij Grossman |
The Owners | Dr. Richard Huggins |
Lost at Christmas | Ernie |
2022 | The Munsters | Igor |
2025 | Dead Before They Wake | Evan |

### Television

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1964–1976 | Vision On | Various |
1973 | Roberts Robots | Robot Entertainer | Episode: "Dial C for Chaos"
1975 | Lucky Feller | Sylveste | Pilot episode
1977 | For the Love of Albert | Cast Member | Unknown episodes
1978 | Leapfrog | Bert | All 28 episodes
1979 | Jigsaw | O-Man |
Turning Year Tales | Turps | Episode: "Big Jim and the Figaro Club"
Jackanory | Reader | Episode: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
The Secret Policeman's Ball | Himself |
1980 | BBC2 Playhouse | Kerwin | Episode: "Electric in the City"
1981 | Big Jim and the Figaro Club | Turps | 5 episodes
Tiny Revolutions | Cabaret comedian | TV movie
Tiswas | Various |
1982–1986 | Eureka | Various | All 32 episodes
1984 | Starstrider | Wart |
1985 | The Last Place on Earth | Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers | 6 episodes
No 73 | Moving man | Episode: "Moving Space"
Dramarama | Donald | Episode: "Frog"
1987–1989, 2022 | Doctor Who | Seventh Doctor | 44 episodes
1988 | What's Your Story? | Narrator / Presenter |
1988 | Tomorrow's World | Himself | Christmas special
1989 | The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow | Seventh Doctor |
1990  | Search Out Science | Episode "Search Out Space"
1991 | Thrill Kill Video Club | Spoons | Video
1993 | Jackanory | Storyteller | 2 episodes
1994 | Frank Stubbs | Angus | Episode: "Mr. Chairman"
1996 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Gash Senior | Episode: "Father"
Doctor Who | Seventh Doctor  | TV movie[30]
1997 | The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling | Mr. Dowling | 4 episodes
1999, 2001 | See It Saw It | Jester | 1 episode
The Lord High Chamberlain /
Aunt Grizelda | Episode: "Courage and Adventure"
2001  | Casualty | Kev the Rev | Episode: "Life and Soul"
2002 | Hollyoaks | Leonard Cave | 1 episode
The Bill | Ian Drew | Episode: "010"
2004 | Still Game | Archie | Episode: "Oot"
2006 | The Bill | Morris Shaw | Episode: "457"
Mayo | Reverend Beaver | Episode: "Late of This Parish"
2008 | Great Performances | The Fool | Episode: "King Lear"
Casualty | Ashley Millington | Episode: "The Evil That Men Do"
Doctors | Graham Capelli | Episode: "The Lollipop Man"
2009 | Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder | Nazi Doctor | 1 episode
2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Himself | TV film
2015 | Crims | Mr. Dunlop | Episode: "Day Thirty-Six"
2017–2018 | Sense8 | The Old Man of Hoy | 4 episodes
Zapped | Lord Protector | 3 episodes
2017 | Sarah & Duck | Comet | Episode: "Comet's Coming"
2018 | Holby City | Clive Brooker | Episode: "All Lies Lead to the Truth"
2019 | Thunderbirds Are Go | Aezethril the Wizard | Episode: "Endgame"
2023 | Tales of the TARDIS | Seventh Doctor | Episode: "The Curse of Fenric"
2024 | Father Brown | Dr. Angus McClurgy | Episode: "The Hermit of Hazelnut Cottage"

## Theatre

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1975  | An Italian Straw Hat | Fadinard  | Theatre Royal, Stratford East
Bloody Mary |
1976  | Bartholomew Fair | Ezechiel Edgworth / Puppet operator  | Nottingham Playhouse
1977-8  | White Suit Blues | Angel / Ben Rogers / Mark Twain / Pallbearer / Prisoner / Robot  | The Old Vic and Nottingham Playhouse
1980  | Gone With Hardy | Stan Laurel | Nottingham Playhouse
1980-1  | Robin Hood | Mrs Campbell  | Theatre Royal, Stratford East
1981  | Can't Pay? Won't Pay! | Sergeant/Inspector/Undertaker/Grandfather  | Criterion Theatre
1982-3  | The Pirates of Penzance | Samuel  | Theatre Royal
1983  | The Ghost Train |  | Lyric Theatre
Abracadabra |
1985-6  | Bedtime Story |  | Bristol Old Vic
1986  | Dracula, or Out For The Count |  | Lyric Theatre
Antony and Cleopatra |  | Theatre Royal
The Taming of the Shrew |
The Pied Piper | The Pied Piper  | National Theatre – Olivier, National Theatre and Camera Theater Tel Aviv
1987  | National Theatre – Lyttelton, National Theatre
1988  | Love Songs of World War III: The Adrian Mitchell Songbook | Company  | National Theatre – Cottesloe Theatre (now National Theatre – Dorfman), National Theatre
1989-90  | Aladdin |  | Palace Theatre
1990  | Temptation | Fistula  | Westminster Theatre
1991  | The Marriage of Figaro | Count Almaviva  | Watford Palace Theatre
1992-3  | Cinderella |  | Theatre Royal, Bath
1995  | Zorro The Musical! | Bernardo  | Theatre Royal
1998  | Life is a Dream | Clarin  | Royal Lyceum Theatre
1999  | Barbican Theatre
2001-2  | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Mr. Beaver  | Sadler's Wells Theatre
2003  | Noises Off | Selsdon Mowbray  | Grand Theatre & Opera House, Leeds, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and other locations
2005  | Arsenic and Old Lace | Dr Einstein  | Mercury Theatre and Richmond Theatre
Aladdin | Abanazar  | Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2007-8  | King Lear | Lear's Fool  | Courtyard Theatre, Theatre Royal and other locations

### Short films

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Year | Title | Role | Notes

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2002 | The Shieling of the One Night | Fergus |
2008 | Pass Them On | The Administrator |
2015 | The Last Conjuror  | Arthur Roberts |
2016 | Tale of a Timelord | The Doctor |
2018 | Beauty | Henry |
2021 | 24 Carat | Seventh Doctor |
2025 | Bananacide | Brunswick |

### Direct to video

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1991  | The Hartnell Years | Presenter  |
1993 | The Airzone Solution | Anthony Stanwick |
1994 | The Zero Imperative | Dr. Colin Dove |
1996  | Bidding Adieu | Himself  | Documentary
2001 | Do You Have a License To Save This Planet? | 'The Foot Doctor' | Short film

### Video games

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Year  | Title  | Voice role  | Notes

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1997  | Destiny of the Doctors | Seventh Doctor  | [31]
2015 | Lego Dimensions | Archive voice
2024  | Fallout: London | Mysterious Scientist 1  | Guest role[32]

## Other works

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### Stage

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Company  | Director |  | Notes

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2014 | Three Sisters | Dr. McGillivrey | Tron Theatre, Glasgow | Andy Arnold | adaptation by John Byrne
2022 | Apartness | Christopher | K4K Films and Shortcut Productions |

### Audio drama

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Year | Title | Role | Notes

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1995  | Prince Caspian  | Reepicheep | BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
1997  | The Last Battle
1998–2000  | The Time Travellers  | The Professor  | BBV Productions
1999–2021  | Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures | Seventh Doctor | 93 stories
2001  | Doctor Who: Death Comes To Time | 5-part webcast
2007, 2012–2015  | Bernice Summerfield | 9 stories
2011  | Doctor Who: The Lost Stories | 4 stories
2011-2013  | The Minister of Chance | The Witch Prime  | 5 stories
2012  | Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles | Seventh Doctor  | Story: "Project Nirvana"
2012-2016  | Doctor Who: The Novel Adaptations | 8 stories
2015  | The Extraordinary Adventures of G.A. Henty: The Dragon And The Raven | Cedric the Shipwright  |
2016  | The Diary of River Song | Seventh Doctor  | 2 stories
2018–present  | The Seventh Doctor Adventures | 11 stories

### Web

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes  | Ref.

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2020 | The Doctors Say Thank You | Himself |  |

## References

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1. ^ Cavan Scott; Mark Wright (2013). Doctor Who: Who-ology. BBC Books. p. 42\. ISBN 978-1849906197. "McCoy's mastery of physical comedy led to his working relationship with producer Clive Doig, who employed him on shows ranging from Vision On to Jigsaw"
2. ^ Muir, John Kenneth (2008). A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television. McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0786437160. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
3. ^ a b c d Pelley, Rich (20 November 2020). "Sylvester McCoy's teenage obsessions: 'I was the twist king of Dunoon'". The Guardian.
4. ^ a b c Smith, Kenny (13 March 2018). "Doctor Who star steps back in time to Dunoon childhood". Scottish Field. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
5. ^ a b c d "Sylvester McCoy in Conversation". Doctor Who: The Collection Season 24 (special feature). BBC Studios. 2021.
6. ^ Sylvester McCoy TV Biography Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 19 November 2013
7. ^ a b "People buy Doctor Who drinks". icBerkshire. Trinity Mirror. 3 April 2003. Archived from the original on 15 January 2007. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
8. ^ McCoy, Sylvester (17 November 2023). "Sylvester McCoy". My life in a Mixtape. BBC Radio2. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
9. ^ McCoy 32.3%, Tom Baker 28.7%, Doctor Who Magazine, May 1990.
10. ^ "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot", BBC programmes, retrieved 26 November 2013
11. ^ "A Business Proposal for Mel! The Collection: Season 24 Announcement Trailer Doctor Who". BBC Studios. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
12. ^ "Doctor Who: Welcome to The Whoniverse where every Doctor, every companion and hundreds of terrifying monsters live". BBC Media Centre. BBC. 30 October 2023.
13. ^ Hannam, Conor (10 December 2024). ""They may be coming back..." Sylvester McCoy on his Doctor Who future FULL INTERVIEW". YouTube.
14. ^ Bythrow, Nick (12 December 2024). "Classic Doctor Who Star Reveals How Russell T Davies Set Up A Return For Former Doctors: "They May Be Coming Back"". ScreenRant. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
15. ^ Courtney, Kevin (15 September 2012). "Then & now Sylvester Mccoy, actor". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
16. ^ Fisher, Mark (5 March 2012). "Plume – review". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
17. ^ "King Lear – cast list". RSC web site. Archived from the original on 9 March 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2007.
18. ^ Higgins, Charlotte (26 November 2008). "Ian McKellen's King Lear to ring in the Christmas cheer for Channel 4". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
19. ^ "Little Shop of Horrors (Mon 4 – Sat 9 May 2009)". Liverpool Empire. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
20. ^ "Father, Series 5, Rab C Nesbitt – BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
21. ^ "BBC One Programmes – Doctors, Series 10, "The Lollipop Man"". BBC. Retrieved 28 October 2008.
22. ^ David, Semple. "How I brought back Sylvester McCoy as Doctor Who". Den of Geek. Retrieved 28 October 2008.
23. ^ "BBC One - The Real Marigold Hotel, Series 1 - The female residents". BBC.
24. ^ "Theatre review: A Joke - The Scotsman". Archived from the original on 17 June 2019.
25. ^ "Sylvester McCoy Is Radagast the Brown". Filmonic. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2008.
26. ^ "Sylvester McCoy | A Brief History Of Time (Travel)". www.shannonsullivan.com.
27. ^ "The Curse of Fenric". Retrieved 5 January 2023.
28. ^ a b MacKenzie, Steven (21 March 2021). "Sylvester McCoy: 'Wisdom? Me? What wisdom have I got?'". The Big Issue.
29. ^ So you believed in God back then?
"I did, yeah",
And do you now?,
"No, I think it's awful",
Doctor Who Magazine, 19 August 2010.
30. ^ "Doctor Who movie producer says BBC didn't want Sylvester McCoy to appear". Radio Times. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
31. ^ Farnell, Chris (13 March 2024). "Why Has There Never Been a Truly Great Doctor Who Video Game?". Den of Geek. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
32. ^ McNulty, Thomas (19 May 2022). "Fallout: London Mod Boasts Doctor Who Voice Talent". ScreenRant. Retrieved 3 February 2024.

## External links

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* Sylvester McCoy at IMDb

Preceded by

Colin Baker

|  Doctor Who leading actor
1987–1989  | Succeeded by

Paul McGann

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