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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 ...
Paul Cornell, a writer for the New Adventures range of novels and the BBC Wales series, named the eras of Peter Davison and McCoy his two favourites in Doctor Who Magazine, saying of the latter: "Sylvester, from about Delta and the Bannermen, being beautiful and shy and sweet and kind again really dragged me back into Doctor Who and I loved the ...
It was the first to feature Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. In the serial, the renegade Time Lady the Rani ( Kate O'Mara ) brings the greatest geniuses from time and space to her laboratory on the planet Lakertya so she can use their minds to power her time manipulator.
The episodes feature several actors reprising their roles including Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy as the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Doctors, respectively. The first six episodes were released alongside the show's 60th anniversary specials in November 2023 to coincide with the launch of the Whoniverse. A further episode was ...
In Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Radagast is played by Sylvester McCoy, [11] and is expanded far beyond his brief role in the book. [10] McCoy stated that he saw Radagast as "very otherworldly with, as Tolkien depicts him, an empathy and kinship with nature, a Middle-earth version of St Francis of Assisi". McCoy added that ...
Paradise Towers is the second serial of the 24th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 October 1987.
In 1999, beginning with the story "The Sirens of Time", Big Finish Productions began producing a series of audio adventures featuring the Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor and Seventh Doctor.
Bruno du Bois – assistant director of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, in which Sylvester McCoy played Radagast the Brown; Peter Jackson – director of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Doctor Who fan; Ian McKellen – voiced the Great Intelligence in the episode "The Snowmen", also plays Gandalf in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.