Sylvester McCoy: movies and TV shows
Sylvester McCoy has 138 credits in the archive: 109 films and 29 TV series, from 1963 to 2025. Highest rated: Still Game (8.4/10).
Career timeline
1963 – 2025 · busiest year: 2013 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Heartsmith | Umbrella Man | Film | 9.0 | 81 |
| 2025 | Dead Before They Wake | Evan | Film | 7.0 | 81 |
| 2025 | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War | The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.0 | 81 |
| 2024 | Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (7) (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 80 |
| 2024 | The Apocalypse Box | Peter Mann | Film | 2.8 | 80 |
| 2023 | Tales of the Tardis | The Doctor | TV | 5.6 | 79 |
| 2023 | Necronomicon | Book Seller (archive footage) | Film | 2.0 | 79 |
| 2023 | Talking Doctor Who | Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage) | Film | 5.0 | 79 |
| 2023 | The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie | Knibbles the Beaver (voice) | Film | — | 79 |
| 2023 | Sylvester McCoy Uncut | Himself | Film | — | 79 |
| 2023 | Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2 | Self | Film | — | 79 |
| 2022 | The Munsters | Igor | Film | 5.6 | 78 |
| 2022 | The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane | Igor / Self | Film | 8.6 | 78 |
| 2022 | Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth! | Klakk (voice) | Film | — | 78 |
| 2021 | Doctor Who: 24 Carat | The Doctor | Film | 6.0 | 77 |
| 2021 | In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy | Self | Film | — | 77 |
| 2021 | Christmas with Strangers | Self | Film | — | 77 |
| 2020 | The Owners | Richard Huggins | Film | 5.6 | 76 |
| 2020 | The Big Night In | Self | Film | 9.0 | 76 |
| 2020 | Conjuring: The Book of the Dead | Book Seller (archive footage) | Film | 1.4 | 76 |
| 2020 | Lost at Christmas | Ernie | Film | 5.5 | 76 |
| 2019 | The Circuit | Film | 1.0 | 75 | |
| 2019 | The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years | Film | — | 75 | |
| 2018 | Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa | Self | TV | — | 74 |
| 2018 | Beauty | Henry | Film | 7.0 | 74 |
| 2018 | Hangover in Death Valley | General Zwick (archive footage) | Film | 1.0 | 74 |
| 2018 | The Doctors: Monsters! | Film | — | 74 | |
| 2017 | Slumber | Amado | Film | 5.3 | 73 |
| 2016 | The Real Marigold Hotel | Self | TV | 7.5 | 72 |
| 2016 | Punk Strut: The Movie | DJ | Film | — | 72 |
| 2015 | Thunderbirds Are Go! | Aezethril the Wizard (voice) | TV | 6.2 | 71 |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song | The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited) | Film | 8.0 | 71 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Radagast the Brown | Film | 7.3 | 70 |
| 2014 | The Seventeenth Kind | Rusty | Film | — | 70 |
| 2014 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2013 | Father Brown | Dr. Angus McClurgy | TV | 7.6 | 69 |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Radagast the Brown | Film | 7.6 | 69 |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The Doctor (7) (archive footage) | Film | 8.2 | 69 |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | Self | TV | 6.4 | 69 |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 2013 | The Christmas Candle | Edward Haddington | Film | 5.9 | 69 |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | Film | 7.8 | 69 |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Explained | Self | Film | 6.7 | 69 |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty | Self | Film | 9.0 | 69 |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Radagast the Brown | Film | 7.4 | 68 |
| 2012 | Eldorado | General Zwick | Film | 3.1 | 68 |
| 2012 | The Inspector Chronicles | Uncle Roderick | Film | — | 68 |
| 2011 | Pointless Celebrities | Self | TV | 6.3 | 67 |
| 2011 | Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time | Film | 8.0 | 67 | |
| 2010 | The Last Chance Saloon | Film | — | 66 | |
| 2010 | The Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy | Film | — | 66 | |
| 2008 | King Lear | The Fool | Film | 6.7 | 64 |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | The Doctor (7) (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 64 |
| 2007 | Doctor Who: Endgame | Self | Film | — | 63 |
| 2007 | Davros Connections | (archival footage) | Film | — | 63 |
| 2006 | Manilla Envelopes | Duncan | Film | — | 62 |
| 2006 | Mayo | Reverend Beaver | TV | 4.2 | 62 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential | TV | 8.1 | 61 | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who: A New Dimension | Self | Film | 9.0 | 61 |
| 2003 | The Story of Doctor Who | Film | 8.0 | 59 | |
| 2002 | Still Game | TV | 8.4 | 58 | |
| 2002 | My Doctor Who Diary | Film | — | 58 | |
| 2002 | Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time | The Doctor | Film | 8.7 | 58 |
| 2001 | Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? | The Foot Doctor | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 2001 | Then & Now | Film | — | 57 | |
| 2000 | You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece | Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman | Film | — | 56 |
| 2000 | The Mumbo Jumbo | Mr. Tallman | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1999 | Adventures in Space and Time | Himself | Film | 9.0 | 55 |
| 1998 | Where on Earth Is Katy Manning? | Film | 8.5 | 54 | |
| 1997 | The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling | Mr, Dowling | TV | 7.5 | 53 |
| 1997 | Space Cadets | Self | TV | 8.3 | 53 |
| 1997 | Beyond Fear | Michael Samms | Film | 9.0 | 53 |
| 1996 | Doctor Who | The Doctor | Film | 6.2 | 52 |
| 1996 | Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns | Flynn | Film | 4.0 | 52 |
| 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Self | Film | 7.5 | 52 |
| 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Film | 7.5 | 52 | |
| 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Film | 7.5 | 52 | |
| 1996 | Ghostlands | Edward Parfitt | Film | — | 52 |
| 1996 | I Was a Doctor Who Monster! | Presenter | Film | 8.0 | 52 |
| 1995 | Leapin' Leprechauns | Flynn | Film | 4.0 | 51 |
| 1995 | Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen | Film | 7.0 | 51 | |
| 1995 | The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond | Film | 7.0 | 51 | |
| 1994 | PROBE: The Zero Imperative | Dr. Colin Dove | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 1994 | Stranger than Fiction | Film | 8.0 | 50 | |
| 1993 | GMTV | Self | TV | 5.8 | 49 |
| 1993 | Frank Stubbs Promotes | Angus | TV | 7.5 | 49 |
| 1993 | I Was That Monster | Himself | Film | — | 49 |
| 1993 | The Airzone Solution | Anthony Stanwick | Film | 5.3 | 49 |
| 1993 | Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time | The 7th Doctor | Film | 4.8 | 49 |
| 1993 | 30 Years in the TARDIS | Himself | Film | 7.9 | 49 |
| 1993 | Police 5: The Master | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | — | 49 |
| 1992 | The Children's Royal Variety Performance | The Wizard | Film | — | 48 |
| 1991 | The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event | Film | — | 47 | |
| 1991 | Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years | Self - Presenter | Film | 9.0 | 47 |
| 1991 | Thrill Kill Video Club | Spoons | Film | 8.0 | 47 |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes IV | Film | — | 46 | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes V | Film | — | 46 | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes II | Film | — | 46 | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes III | Film | — | 46 | |
| 1990 | Search Out Space | The Doctor | Film | 8.0 | 46 |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: Battlefield | The Doctor | Film | 7.3 | 45 |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric | The Doctor | Film | 8.4 | 45 |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: Ghost Light | The Doctor | Film | 8.4 | 45 |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: Survival | The Doctor | Film | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1988 | Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis | The Doctor | Film | 7.1 | 44 |
| 1988 | Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks | The Doctor | Film | 8.9 | 44 |
| 1988 | The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis | Film | — | 44 | |
| 1988 | Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy | The Doctor | Film | 7.5 | 44 |
| 1988 | Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol | The Doctor | Film | 8.0 | 44 |
| 1987 | Going Live! | Self | TV | 8.0 | 43 |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: Paradise Towers | The Doctor | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: Dragonfire | The Doctor | Film | 7.2 | 43 |
| 1987 | It's Wicked | TV | — | 43 | |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen | The Doctor | Film | 6.2 | 43 |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: Time and the Rani | The Doctor | Film | 5.5 | 43 |
| 1987 | Three Kinds of Heat | Harry Pimm | Film | 5.4 | 43 |
| 1987 | Doctor Who Then & Now | Doctor Who | TV | — | 43 |
| 1986 | Casualty | Kev the Rev | TV | 6.2 | 42 |
| 1986 | Casualty | Ashley Millington | TV | 6.2 | 42 |
| 1986 | The PanoptiCon Tapes VI | Film | — | 42 | |
| 1985 | The Last Place on Earth | Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers | TV | 7.4 | 41 |
| 1984 | The Bill | TV | 6.8 | 40 | |
| 1983 | Dramarama | Donald | TV | 7.3 | 39 |
| 1981 | Big Jim and the Figaro Club | Turps | TV | — | 37 |
| 1980 | Electric in the City | Kerwin | Film | — | 36 |
| 1979 | Dracula | Walter | Film | 6.4 | 35 |
| 1979 | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Various Roles | Film | 6.4 | 35 |
| 1979 | Big Jim and the Figaro Club | Turps | Film | — | 35 |
| 1978 | An Audience with... | Self | TV | 5.3 | 34 |
| 1977 | For the Love of Albert | TV | — | 33 | |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Kerwin | TV | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1974 | Tiswas | TV | 7.8 | 30 | |
| 1971 | The Ken Campbell Roadshow | Self | Film | — | 27 |
| 1964 | Vision On | TV | — | 20 | |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | The Doctor | TV | 7.9 | 19 |
| Bananacide | Dr. Brunswick | Film | — | — | |
| Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy? | Self | Film | — | — | |
| Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy? | Film | — | — |