Sylvester Mccoy Net Worth
Sylvester Mccoy Net Worth is
$4 Million
Sylvester Mccoy Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor. As a comic act and busker he appeared regularly on stage and children's television in the 1970s and 80s, before going on to play the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1... | Full Name | Sylvester McCoy |
| Net Worth | $4 Million |
| Date Of Birth | August 20, 1943 |
| Place Of Birth | Dunoon, United Kingdom |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Profession | Actor |
| Education | Dunoon Grammar School |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Spouse | Agnes McCoy |
| Parents | Molly Sheridan, Percy James Kent-Smith |
| Nicknames | Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith , Sylv , Sylveste McCoy |
| Movies | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Doctor Who, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Christmas Candle, Dracula, The Airzone Solution, King Lear, The Seventeenth Kind, Eldorado, The Academy Part 2: First Impressions, Slumber, Back2Hell |
| TV Shows | The Last Place on Earth, Tiswas, Vision On, Doctor Who, Big Jim And The Figaro Club, Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS |
| Star Sign | Leo |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a way Doctor Who (1963) is a strange role, because normally you don't have that comparison. The only other similar kind of roles are Shakespearean roles - you have good Hamlets and you have bad Hamlets, one's not as good as another and so on. It was a bit of a problem to deal with at first. |
| 2 | (When asked what he hoped to accomplish in the role of the Doctor) I hope to have fun, keep it as wonderful as it was when the other six Doctors were doing it and enjoy it, really. |
| 3 | If you're a really intelligent being, you're not going to be violent, because violence is not intelligent. It's a basic, Neanderthal thing that we carry with us. I feel very strongly that the Doctor should not be violent. He should find another way. |
| 4 | Like all actors, you bring a lot of yourself to the Doctor. Life has made me kind of clown-like and comic. I see things in a comic way. But I'm also angry. Comedy does come from anger. It's the flipside of the coin, isn't it? |
| 5 | (About the Doctor Who (1963) story Ghost Light) It was well done but God knows what it meant. |
| 6 | (On whether or not he's been typecast) The actors who played the Doctors tended not to get typecast. The ones who suffered in Doctor Who (1963) were the companions, they are the ones who didn't necessarily go on to do a variety of other work. |
| 7 | (On when_"Doctor Who" (1963)_ was cancelled) They kept that from us, I wasn't told until about eight months after we'd finished the previous series. I was told when we should have been told when they were starting the new one, but it happened and that was it. I'm an actor and that what happens in my profession - you do a job and it finishes and you go onto another one, but it was a bit sad as I felt I hadn't finished with the Doctor. It's lived on in the conventions and with Big Finish where I've been making audio versions of the show which have been successful all over the world, so that's carried it on. Colin Baker, Paul McGann and others have been playing their Doctors on these audio books. That's kept it going, the fans have kept it going and it's kept me travelling around the world in between acting jobs, it's been terrific. |
| 8 | Fame! We all want it. By Christ, I was hungry for it, I must admit. But you don't really know what it entails... The fame that came with Doctor Who (1963) was so sudden. Overnight, one became like a pop star... In a sense, you had to watch your p's and q's. You could no longer be yourself in public. You had to become this other, false human being, to protect yourself. If you wandered in and just opened your mouth and said something that you would say in everyday life that would have no consequence at all, suddenly it would reverberate through the crap newspapers. I was put under siege by the press. It was an infringement of my human rights. |
| 9 | By the time you got to the third or fourth story of the season, you had no idea what it was about. You just got the script, learned the lines and tried not to bump into the monsters. You had no overall concept, because there was no time. |
| 10 | If you really want to become well known, appreciated, applauded by your peers and by an audience, stick to the theatre. |
| 11 | (On Doctor Who (1963)) I'm very proud to be part of it. I'm a national institution. I'm in a museum. I thought you had to be dead to be in a museum, but I'm in a museum somewhere. |
| 12 | The fame affected my family, my children especially. We couldn't go on holiday in Britain. I went somewhere to open something once and they treated me like royalty. Their body language was like that. If you stood in a certain way, they move towards you. If you turned, they angled towards you. And I watched these people moving like this, and then I was introduced to the ladies who made the tea, and they were all in descending order of height. They bobbed as I went past, much to my horror. I said, 'Don't! I'm only an actor.' |
| 13 | [on "Sachsgate"] I think the BBC should put their money where their mouth is and give the job to Andrew Sachs. Because the very first Doctor was an older man - and he came down to Earth with his granddaughter. So there's Andrew Sachs and his granddaughter - the BBC could give them a nice, good acting role, and a good paycheque. |
| 14 | I will miss him dearly. When I was a child Jon Pertwee on radio entertained and delighted me, and made me laugh. As a young man he amazed and excited me with his performance as Doctor Who (1963). When I took the role I met him for the first time and he became my great mate. |
| 15 | [on Doctor Who (1963)] You never had any time to think about the overall story. You learned the lines and tried not to bump into the monsters. |
| 16 | The idea of bringing politics into Doctor Who (1963) was deliberate, but we had to do it very quietly and certainly didn't shout about it. We were a group of politically motivated people and it seemed the right thing to do. Our feeling was that Margaret Thatcher was far more terrifying than any monster the Doctor had encountered. |
| 17 | Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story. Film is like painting with a tiny Japanese paintbrush, second by second. But the reward is painting with a broad brush with a live audience; you get the response, then it affects your next mood - you can sense the mood and their laughter. It's alive. TV is not dead but you are part of a jigsaw. On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience. |
| 18 | Variety has always been in my mind; to do something totally different . I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track the TV and film, the other theatre, but they never crossed. Even when I did Doctor Who (1963) I was still doing stuff at the National and on tour but going back. So I've always done plays and had this schizophrenic experience but neither have affected each other as the casting director and so on very rarely cross over. It did affect my telly career and made it not quite as exciting - in those days the swap over between roles was harder to do. The only thing Doctor Who (1963) added was a knot on my wage - I got paid a bit more. |
| 19 | It had a great pace, it moved really quickly and was witty. Christopher Eccleston was quite alien as the Doctor - he looked wonderful. He had this manic grin - we were not sure if he was on the edge of insanity or not, which was rather good. He ran into danger with such gusto. He galloped at it joyfully. Billie Piper was quite fantastic. The relationship between the two was quite extraordinary. In a way this Doctor was not the brightest brain in the universe - he's a bit like an Oxford don in that he's full of brains but with not much nous. There was a great scene when he was searching for a giant round object and Rose had to point out he was standing in front of the London Eye. He seemed to need Rose more than any other Doctor needed his companion, because she could really help him. (On Doctor Who: Rose (2005) |
| 20 | It's all to do with the writing: Doctor Who (1963) has always been to do with the writing. Each writer brings their own individual story, and with that their own take on the Doctor. |
| 21 | There was always that negative feeling when we went into work - not from John (John Nathan-Turner), but those above him. There was always a battle going on. They didn't really want it. They were keeping it on because it was there and they couldn't really figure out a way to get rid of it. John was leaving and they didn't know how to replace him really. This time he had said he was, and that was it - it didn't carry on. They couldn't find anyone to volunteer to take it over. They could have asked me! (On Doctor Who (1963)) |
| 22 | I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 Doctor Who (2005). |
| 2 | Attending Collectormania 7 at Milton Keynes And... about to begin a stage run in Glasgow. [May 2005] |
| 3 | (Minneapolis, Minnesota) On tour with the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing as the Fool in "King Lear," with Sir Ian McKellen in the title role. [October 2007] |
| 4 | Did not start acting until he was 28 years old. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | He was raised primarily in Dublin, Ireland. |
| 8 | He is the only actor to appear in both Doctor Who (1963) and Doctor Who (1996). |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | He became the first of three non-English actors to portray the character of the Doctor and the first of four 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 and Peter Capaldi is likewise Scottish and plays the Twelfth Doctor with his natural accent. |
| 11 | He was considered the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He played Radagast the Brown in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). |
| 12 | 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, McCoy was cast as the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who (1963) and Dalton was cast James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987). |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | McCoy is technically 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. No new work was produced by McCoy as the Doctor between 1989-1996 however, meaning that Tom Baker is still the longest continuously-serving Doctor, at 7 years (1974-1981). |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quest: A Tall Tale | 2013 | post-production | Ardan (voice) |
| Journey Bound | pre-production | The Mechanic | |
| The Inspector Chronicles: Untitled Motion Picture About a Space Traveler Who Can also Travel Through Time | announced | Uncle Roderick | |
| When the Devil Rides Out | post-production | ||
| Slumber | 2016/IV | Amado | |
| The Last Conjuror | 2015 | Short | Arthur Roberts |
| Crims | 2015 | TV Series | Mr. Dunlop |
| The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | 2014 | Radagast | |
| The Seventeenth Kind | 2014 | Short | Rusty |
| The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Radagast | |
| The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | 2013 | TV Movie | Sylvester McCoy |
| The Christmas Candle | 2013 | Edward Haddington | |
| Ian Levine: Downtime Redux | 2013 | Video | The Doctor |
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Radagast | |
| The Academy: Special | 2012 | TV Movie | Felix |
| Eldorado | 2012 | Video | General Zwick |
| Punk Strut: The Movie | 2010 | Dj | |
| The Academy Part 2: First Impressions | 2009 | Video | Felix |
| The Academy | 2009 | Short | Felix |
| Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder | 2009 | TV Series | Nazi Doctor |
| King Lear | 2008 | TV Movie | The Fool |
| Casualty | 2001-2008 | TV Series | Ashley Millington / Kev the Rev |
| Doctors | 2008 | TV Series | Graham Capelli The Amazing Lollipop Man |
| Great Performances | 2008 | TV Series | Fool |
| Pass Them On | 2008 | Short | The Administrator |
| The Bill | 2002-2006 | TV Series | Morris Shaw / Ian Drew |
| The Gil Mayo Mysteries | 2006 | TV Series | Reverend Beaver |
| The Battersea Ripper | 2006 | ||
| Griffin | 2004 | Grim | |
| Still Game | 2004 | TV Series | Archie |
| Children in Need | 2003 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| The Shieling of the One Night | 2002 | Short | Fergus |
| Hollyoaks | 2002 | TV Series | Leonard Cave |
| Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time | 2001-2002 | TV Mini-Series | The Doctor |
| Do You Have a License to Save This Planet? | 2001 | Video short | The Foot Doctor |
| See It Saw It | 1999-2001 | TV Series | The Lord High Chamberlain / Aunt Grizelda / Jester |
| The Mumbo Jumbo | 2000 | Mr. Tallman | |
| Beyond Fear | 1997 | TV Movie | Michael Sams |
| The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | 1997 | TV Mini-Series | Mr. Dowling |
| Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors | 1997 | Video Game | The Doctor (voice) |
| Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns | 1996 | Flynn | |
| Doctor Who | 1996 | TV Movie | The Doctor |
| Rab C. Nesbitt | 1996 | TV Series | Gash Senior |
| Leapin' Leprechauns! | 1995 | Flynn | |
| P.R.O.B.E.: The Zero Imperative | 1994 | Video | Dr. Colin Dove |
| Frank Stubbs Promotes | 1994 | TV Series | Angus |
| The Airzone Solution | 1993 | Video | Anthony Stanwick |
| Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time | 1993 | TV Short | The Seventh Doctor |
| Jackanory | 1979-1993 | TV Series | Storyteller / Reader |
| Thrill Kill Video Club | 1991 | Video | Spoons |
| Doctor Who | 1987-1989 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow | 1989 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| What's Your Story? | 1988 | TV Series | Narrator / Presentor |
| Three Kinds of Heat | 1987 | Harry Pimm | |
| Dramarama | 1985 | TV Series | Donald |
| Eureka | 1982-1985 | TV Series | PC Dunworthy / Various Roles |
| No 73 | 1985 | TV Series | Moving man |
| The Last Place on Earth | 1985 | TV Mini-Series | Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers |
| Starstrider | 1984 | TV Series | Wart |
| Jigsaw | 1980-1981 | TV Series | O-Man |
| Tiswas | 1981 | TV Series | Various |
| Tiny Revolutions | 1981 | TV Movie | Cabaret comedian |
| Big Jim and the Figaro Club | 1979-1981 | TV Series | Turps |
| BBC2 Playhouse | 1980 | TV Series | Kerwin |
| All the Fun of the Fair | 1979 | Scotch Jack | |
| Dracula | 1979 | Walter (as Sylveste McCoy) | |
| Turning Year Tales | 1979 | TV Series | Turps |
| For the Love of Albert | 1977 | TV Mini-Series | Cast memeber |
| Lucky Feller | 1975 | TV Series | |
| Roberts Robots | 1973 | TV Series | Robot Entertainer |
| Vision On | 1965 | TV Series |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | 1996 | Video documentary uncredited |
Camera Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | 1996 | Video documentary camera operator - uncredited |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who: The Fan Show | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Real Marigold Hotel | 2016 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| 12 Again | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Culture Show | 2013 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | |
| 50 Greatest Kids Shows | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | 2013 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Newsnight | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| Pointless Celebrities | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| The One Show | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| From the Mouths of Babes | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself (2013) |
| The Last Chance Saloon | 2010 | Video documentary short | Himself / The Doctor |
| GMTV | 2003-2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| Doctor Who Confidential | 2005-2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| An Audience Without Jeremy Beadle | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Back to School | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself / The Doctor |
| Tiswas Reunited | 2007 | TV Special | Himself |
| Catflap | 2007 | Video documentary | Himself / The Doctor |
| Endgame | 2007 | Video | Himself |
| Breakfast | 2004-2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| Postcards | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| Richard & Judy | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| 'Doctor Who': A New Dimension | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Light in Dark Places | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself / The Doctor |
| Hell's Kitchen | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Story of 'Doctor Who' | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Blue Peter | 1987-2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| Liquid News | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| Caledonian MacBrains | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| Top Ten | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The 100 Greatest Kids TV Shows | 2001 | TV Special | Himself |
| Trekathon | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| Adventures in Space and Time | 1999 | TV Special documentary short | Himself |
| Where on Earth Is... Katy Manning Because She'd Really Like to Know! | 1998 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Space Cadets | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | 1996 | Video documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| I Was a 'Doctor Who' Monster | 1996 | Video documentary | Presenter |
| News at Ten | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| Stranger Than Fiction 2 | 1995 | Video documentary | |
| The Doctors, 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond | 1995 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Stranger Than Fiction | 1994 | Video documentary | |
| The Disney Club | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Big Breakfast | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
| Tomorrow's World | 1993 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Doctor Who: 30 Years in the Tardis | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| I Was That Monster | 1993 | TV Short documentary | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| Good Morning... with Anne and Nick | 1993 | TV Series | Himself |
| Pebble Mill at One | 1992 | TV Series | Himself |
| 'Doctor Who': The Hartnell Years | 1991 | Video documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| Surprise Surprise! | 1991 | TV Series | Himself |
| You Bet! | 1990 | TV Series | Himself |
| Open Air | 1987-1989 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Going Live! | 1987-1988 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Lowdown | 1988 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Comic Relief | 1988 | TV Special | Himself |
| 'Doctor Who': Then and Now | 1987 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Pamela Armstrong | 1987 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Royal Variety Performance 1982 | 1982 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Tiswas | 1978-1980 | TV Series | Himself - Presenter |
| The Secret Policeman's Ball | 1979 | TV Movie documentary | Syveste McCoy (as Sylveste McCoy) |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBC Proms | 2010 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Who Peter: Partners in Time - 1963-1989 | 2010 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Newsnight | 2010 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Doctor Who Confidential | 2009 | TV Series documentary | The Doctor |
| Davros Connections | 2007 | Video documentary | The Doctor |
| Double Trouble | 2007 | Video documentary short | The 7th Doctor |
| The Story of Jackanory | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - 'Jackanory' Storyteller |
| The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Little Girl Lost | 2007 | Video short | The Doctor |
| The Dalek Tapes | 2006 | Video documentary | The Doctor |
| Postcards | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Greatest | 2001 | TV Series documentary | The Doctor |
| 'Doctor Who': The Colin Baker Years | 1994 | Video documentary | The Doctor |
| Resistance Is Useless | 1992 | TV Movie documentary | The Doctor |
| Lego Dimensions | 2015 | Video Game | The Seventh Doctor |
| Doctor Who | 2008-2015 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| LEGO the Hobbit: The Video Game | 2014 | Video Game | Radagast the Brown |
| Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor | 2013 | TV Movie | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Newsround | 2013 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Geek Crash Course | 2013 | TV Series | The Sixth Doctor The Seventh Doctor |
| Race Against Time | 2011 | Video documentary | The Doctor |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | TV60 | BBC TV60 Awards, UK | Best Popular Drama Series | Doctor Who (1963) |
Known for movies
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
as Radagast
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
as Radagast
Doctor Who (1987-1989)
as The Doctor
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
as Radagast