Actors: Sylvester McCoy

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Jméno:Sylvester McCoy
Datum narození:1943-08-20
Místo narození:Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Výška:1.68 m
IMDb ID:nm0566809

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).

  • McCoy and Timothy Dalton appeared together on stage in London in 1986 and complained to each other that long-term work was so hard to find. The next year, both had screen acting breaks when McCoy was cast as the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who (1963) and Dalton was cast as James Bond in Dech života (1987). However, both McCoy's tenure as the Doctor and Dalton's tenure as Bond proved short-lived as both of these iconic British franchises were cancelled in 1989 for several years and recast when they eventually returned.
  • He is the only actor to appear in both Doctor Who (1963) and Doctor Who (1996).
  • He is the the only Doctor to have played the role during two regenerations. When Colin Baker left the role he refused to do the regeneration scene. So Sylvester donned Baker's costume and a blonde wig and stood in as Baker. This is the reason that for only the second time in the series (See Peter Davison's regeneration) the Doctor's face is obscured as he changes his appearance.
  • He became the first of three non-English actors to portray the character of the Doctor and the first of many actors to speak with an accent other than Received Pronunciation English: Christopher Eccleston portrayed the Ninth Doctor in 2005 with a Northern accent, David Tennant is a fellow Scot who portrayed the Doctor from 2005 to 2010 with a London/Estuary accent, Peter Capaldi is likewise Scottish and plays the Twelfth Doctor with his natural accent, and Jodie Whittaker plays the role with her Yorkshire accent.
  • He was considered for the role of Bilbo Baggins in Pán prstenů: Společenstvo prstenu (2001), Pán prstenů: Dvě věže (2002) and Pán prstenů: Návrat krále (2003). He played Radagast the Brown in Hobit: Neočekávaná cesta (2012), Hobit: Šmakova dračí poušť (2013) and Hobit: Bitva peti armád (2014).
  • McCoy technically became the longest-serving Doctor after reprising the role in 1996. His term as the Doctor stretched from 1987 until 1996, a total of 8.5 years. However, as the series was not produced as an ongoing series from the end of Doctor Who (1963) in 1989 until the American co-production Doctor Who (1996), in which McCoy handed over to Paul McGann, Tom Baker is still the longest continuously-serving Doctor on screen at seven years (1974-1981).
  • His father Percy Kent-Smith was a Royal Navy submarine officer and was killed in the second world war on July 18, 1943, only a month before he was born.
  • He reportedly took offence to the line written by Mark Gatiss and delivered by David Walliams in the BBC2 sketch The Pitch of Fear (1999) in which Sydney Newman says the Doctor could be played "by any f***** with an Equity Card" towards the end of its run. It was subsequently edited from the version included on a DVD at Gatiss' request. McCoy's acting work has included performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
  • He is adept at playing both the xylophone and the spoons. He can also juggle and once gained a reputation for stuffing live ferrets down his trousers.
  • He did not start acting until he was 28 years old.
  • The script editor of Doctor Who during the McCoy era, Andrew Cartmel, described McCoy as "the Dark Doctor" because he was characterized as more cunning and manipulative than previous incarnations.
  • He was raised primarily in Dublin, Ireland.
  • He has two roles in common with John Hurt: (1) Hurt played the Fool in King Lear (1983) while McCoy played him in King Lear (2008) and (2) McCoy played the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who (1963) and Doctor Who (1996) while Hurt played the War Doctor in Pán času (2005).
  • He is one of three actors who portrayed The Doctor on TV to appear in an episode of Casualty (1986). The others are Colin Baker and Christopher Eccleston.
  • In May 2005, he attended Collectormania 7 at Milton Keynes and was about to begin a stage run in Glasgow.
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