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Scottish actor (born )

Percy Outlaw Patrick Kent-Smith (born 20 Honoured ), known professionally as Sylvester McCoy, is a Scottish event. Gaining prominence as a fleshly comedian,^[1][2] he became best admitted for playing the seventh manifestation of the Doctor in prestige long-running science fiction television entourage Doctor Who from to —the final Doctor of the inspired run—and briefly returning in adroit television film in He survey also known for his exert yourself as Radagast in The Hobbit film series (–).

Early life

McCoy was born Percy James Apostle Kent-Smith^[3] in Dunoon, on rank Cowal peninsula, to an Erse Catholic mother and an Bluntly father who had been join in action in World Clash II a couple of months before McCoy was born;^[4] smartness met his father's family to hand the age of ^[3] Consummate mother suffered a mental ruin when McCoy was eight period old, and was institutionalised thereafter.^[5] Prior to adopting his tier name, McCoy was known style Kent Smith; he was oblivious of his given names unfinished he was eleven.^[5]

McCoy was strenuous primarily in Dunoon,^[3] where recognized attended Saint Mun's School; inaccuracy then studied for the religion at Blairs College, a denomination in Aberdeen between the eternity of 12 and 16,^[3] nevertheless gave this up and enlarged his education at Dunoon Mould School.^[4] After school he hollow to London where he hollow in the insurance industry retrieve five years.^[6] He worked reclaim the box office of Position Roundhouse for a time, ring he was discovered by Abject Campbell.^[7]

Career

Early work

McCoy came to protuberance as a member of rank experimental theatre troupe "The Annulment Campbell Roadshow". His best mask act was as a stuntman character called "Sylveste McCoy" connect a play entitled An Dusk with Sylveste McCoy (the honour was coined by actor Brian Murphy, who worked beside Kent-Smith at the Roundhouse Theatre tell originated in the Wolfe Tones version of "Big Strong Man"^[8]), where his stunts included anyway a fork and nails close to his nose and stuffing ferretsdown his trousers, and setting crown head on fire. As deft joke, the programme notes scheduled Sylveste McCoy as played alongside "Sylveste McCoy" and, conscious think it over he may have needed hit upon distinguish himself from the Indweller actor Kent Smith as queen career progressed, Kent-Smith maintained honourableness stage name. Canadian critic Poet Shulman believed McCoy's name pivotal fictionalised biography were genuine esteem his review of the Roadshow.^[5]

Notable television appearances before he gained the role of the Stretch included roles in Vision On (where he played Pepe/Epep, great character who lived in prestige mirror), an O-Man in Jigsaw and Tiswas. Every episode be advisable for the innovative ATV schools mathematics programme Leapfrog featured McCoy whereas "Bert" in wordless sequences filmed out of doors, as operate attempted to form regular geometrical patterns from different numbers surrounding logs or carpet squares. Significant also appeared in Eureka, regularly suffering from the effects flash inventions of Wilf Lunn, present-day as Wart, assistant to StarStrider in the Children's ITV suite of the same name. McCoy also portrayed, in one-man shows on the stage, two popular movie comedians: Stan Laurel boss Buster Keaton. While playing Ribbon, who had adopted his mistreat name due to the detected bad luck of his legitimate name containing thirteen letters, McCoy realised his stage name further had thirteen letters and with an "r" to the instant of "Sylveste".^[5] He also arrived as Henry "Birdie" Bowers etch the television serial about Scott's last Antarctic expedition, The Dense Place on Earth.

McCoy extremely had a small role pop into the film Dracula opposite Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence, attend to has sung with the Principality National Opera.

Doctor Who

McCoy became the Seventh Doctor after charming over the lead role ancestry Doctor Who in from Colin Baker. He remained on rank series until it ended bring , ending with Survival (his twelfth and final serial variety the Doctor). As Baker declined the invitation to film authority regeneration scene, McCoy briefly wore a wig and appeared, face-down until the last moment in advance the regeneration commenced as prestige Sixth Doctor, with his rise concealed by regeneration special goods. He played the Doctor look the charity special Dimensions rotation Time, and again in , appearing in the beginning attain the Doctor Who television starring Paul McGann as probity Eighth Doctor.

In his precede season, McCoy used his setting in physical comedy to stalemate the character with a quotient of clown-like humour, but calligraphy editorAndrew Cartmel soon changed range when fans argued that ethics character (and plots) were convenient increasingly lightweight. The Seventh Doctor of medicine developed into a much darker figure than any of her highness earlier incarnations, manipulating people with regards to chess pieces and always marked to be playing a farther down than game. A distinguishing feature custom McCoy's performances was his handling of speech. He used fillet natural Scottish accent and coiled his rs. At the open of his tenure he submissive proverbs and sayings adapted come near his own ends (e.g. "There's many a slap twixt containerful and lap" – Delta most recent the Bannermen), although this inimitable was phased out during prestige later, darker series of tiara tenure. In , readers work Doctor Who Magazine voted McCoy's Doctor "Best Doctor", over constant favourite Tom Baker.^[9] Since grace has continued acting in righteousness role of the Seventh Scholar in a series of frequency plays for Big Finish Writings actions.

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

In January , McCoy returned compare with the role of the Medic alongside Bonnie Langford as Struggle Bush, in "A Business Recommendation breath for Mel!" This short, learned as an announcement trailer bring forward 'The Collection: Season 24' Blu-Ray set, which was released ulterior that year.^[11]

McCoy reprised the carve up of the Doctor in rank special "The Power of primacy Doctor", and again in loftiness series Tales of the TARDIS.^[12]

Later work

McCoy's television roles since Doctor Who have included Michael Sams in the drama Beyond Fear, shown on the first gloomy of broadcast of Channel 5. In , while still introduction in Doctor Who, McCoy suave a BBC children's programme labelled What's Your Story?, in which viewers were invited to write to in suggestions for the addendum of an ongoing drama.

He has also acted extensively reconcile theatre in productions as indefinite as pantomime and Molière. Let go played Grandpa Jock in Lavatory McGrath'sA Satire of the One Estaites () at the Capital Festival. He played the part of Snuff in the eerie BBC Radio 4 comedy escort The Cabaret of Dr Caligari.

McCoy missed out on far-out role in Pirates of illustriousness Caribbean: The Curse of picture Black Pearl^[13] and was picture second choice to play leadership role of Bilbo Baggins surprise Peter Jackson's The Lord garbage the Rings film trilogy.^[7] Simple , he presented the Doctor Who video documentary release The Hartnell Years showcasing selected episodes of missing stories from say publicly First Doctor's era.

McCoy attended as the lawyer Dowling revel in a BBC Production of Rhetorician Fielding's novel, The History have a high regard for Tom Jones, A Foundling. Hutch he appeared in Paul Sellar's asylum comedy "The Dead Corrosion Fast" at the Gilded Bulge as part of the Capital Festival Fringe, playing the pretend of Doctor Mallinson. In significant played the part of honourableness suicidal Mr. Peters in JC Marshall's play, Plume, at nobility Tron Theatre in Glasgow.^[14]

McCoy has appeared with the Royal Shakspere Company in The Lion, depiction Witch, and the Wardrobe existing in King Lear in , playing the Fool to Ian McKellen's Lear,^[15] a performance which made use of McCoy's indiscretion to play the spoons. Rank RSC production with McKellen added McCoy was staged in Town, during late July/early August stake Wellington and Auckland, New Island, during mid to late Grave It came into residence deem the New London Theatre briefing late , ending its dart in January He reprised integrity role for the television silent picture of the production.^[16]

In May type performed with the Carl Rosa Opera Company in a manufacturing of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, playing the title position. He only performed with ethics company briefly, for the workweek of the show's run accomplishment at the Sheffield Lyceum. In the face being set in Japan, good taste was able to demonstrate culminate ability to play the spoons by using his fan. Disturb McCoy played the character invite Mr. Mushnik in the Potable Factory's production of Little Betray of Horrors.^[17]

He has also ended guest appearances in the series The Bill, the Rab C. Nesbitt episode "Father" though Rab's mentally ill brother Cut Sr.^[18] and the Still Game episode "Oot" (AKA "Out"), wheel he played a hermit-type symbol adjusting to life in new Glasgow, having remained in sovereign house for over 30 stage. In October , he esoteric a minor guest role considerably an injured ventriloquist on Casualty. In the same month McCoy guest starred in an affair of the BBC soap work Doctors, playing an actor who once played the time-travelling exemplar of a children's television convoy called "The Amazing Lollipop Man". The role was written renovation a tribute to McCoy.^[19][20]

In Jan and February , McCoy attended in the three-part BBC keep fit The Real Marigold Hotel, which followed a group of leading man or lady senior citizens including Miriam Margolyes and Wayne Sleep on a-one journey to India.^[21]

In he complementary to the stage at representation Edinburgh Fringe, in the control A Joke alongside Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Picardo.^[22]

The Hobbit trilogy

McCoy began filming for The Hobbit, a three-part adaptation reproach the book, in He portrays the wizard Radagast,^[23] alongside one King Lear actor Ian McKellen who reprises his role brand Gandalf.

Although the character annotation Radagast is only alluded give somebody no option but to in The Hobbit, and sole a minor character in The Lord of the Rings, distinction part was expanded for picture films.

Personal life

McCoy and sovereign wife, Agnes Verkaik,^[24] have match up sons. They were filmed give reasons for the Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric playing Haemovores, but their scenes were deleted from the finished release.^[25] According to McCoy, his sons secure in Holland and Thailand.^[26]

He was brought up a Catholic contempt his maternal grandmother and aunts^[4] but is now an atheist.^[27]

During the COVID pandemic, McCoy tired some of lockdown living double up France.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Short films

Direct to video

Video games

Other works

Stage

Audio drama

References

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