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Acting

Sylvester McCoy

Career: Active from 1964 to 2025, busiest in 1987 and 1996 with 5 main titles each.

Leading roles: 34
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 33 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Sylvester McCoy Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.2, average 5.4
Melancholy
3.4, average 4.7
Class & Capitalism
2.3, average 3.3
Social Commentary
3.9, average 4.9

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Doctor Who 5
Family-Friendly 3
Nostalgic 3
Sci-Fi Adventure 2
Nostalgic Sci-Fi 2
Fantasy Adventure 2
Psychological Horror 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

92

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

2 titles

Bananacide

as Dr. Brunswick

Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?

Executive Producer

2020s

14 titles · average score 49

The Heartsmith

as Umbrella Man

Dead Before They Wake

as Evan

The Apocalypse Box

30

as Peter Mann

Necronomicon

as Book Seller (archive footage)

The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie

as Knibbles the Beaver (voice)

Tales of the Tardis

66

TV show · as The Doctor

Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!

as Klakk (voice)

The Munsters

51

as Igor

Doctor Who: 24 Carat

as The Doctor

The Owners

52

as Richard Huggins

Lost at Christmas

45

as Ernie

Conjuring: The Book of the Dead

as Book Seller (archive footage)

2010s

18 titles · average score 61

Beauty

as Henry

Hangover in Death Valley

as General Zwick (archive footage)

Slumber

20

as Amado

Zapped

66

TV show · as Lord Protector

Thunderbirds Are Go!

65

TV show · as Aezethril the Wizard (voice)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

65

as Radagast the Brown

The Seventeenth Kind

as Rusty

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

73

as Radagast the Brown

Father Brown

77

TV show · as Dr. Angus McClurgy

The Christmas Candle

45

as Edward Haddington

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

86

as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

69

as Radagast the Brown

2000s

11 titles · average score 74

King Lear

69

as The Fool

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

73

as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

Davros Connections

as (archival footage)

Manilla Envelopes

as Duncan

Mayo

58

TV show · as Reverend Beaver

Doctor Who Confidential

80

TV show

Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

as The Doctor

Still Game

89

TV show

Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?

as The Foot Doctor

You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece

as Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman

The Mumbo Jumbo

as Mr. Tallman

1990s

16 titles · average score 56

Beyond Fear

as Michael Samms

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

76

TV show · as Mr, Dowling

Doctor Who

60

as The Doctor

I Was a Doctor Who Monster!

as Presenter

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

Director, Camera Operator

Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns

as Flynn

Leapin' Leprechauns

48

as Flynn

PROBE: The Zero Imperative

as Dr. Colin Dove

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

47

as The 7th Doctor

The Airzone Solution

52

as Anthony Stanwick

Thrill Kill Video Club

as Spoons

Search Out Space

as The Doctor

1980s

22 titles · average score 76

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric

82

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Survival

72

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Battlefield

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks

86

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

as The Doctor

Casualty

62

TV show · as Ashley Millington / Kev the Rev

The Bill

77

TV show

1970s

7 titles · average score 69

Dracula

65

as Walter

The Secret Policeman's Ball

66

as Various Roles

Big Jim and the Figaro Club

as Turps

Turning Year Tales

TV show · as Turps

For the Love of Albert

TV show

Tiswas

77

TV show

Playhouse

TV show · as Kerwin

1960s

2 titles · average score 76

Vision On

TV show

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as The Doctor