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Perso McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor best known for playing 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 appearing in a television film in 1996.

Early life

Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith of Dunoon was born in Dunoon, on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish mother and an English father who had been killed in World War II a few months before his son was born. He was brought up by his maternal grandmother and aunts and uncles, and later visited his father's family at the age of 17. He was raised religious but is now an atheist.

He was brought up mainly in Dunoon, where he attended St. Mun's School; he later studied for the priesthood at Blairs College, a seminary in Aberdeen between the ages of 12 and 16, but he left this to continue his education at Dunoon Grammar School. After high school, he moved to London and spent five years in the insurance industry. For a time, he was employed in The Roundhouse's box office, where Ken Campbell discovered him.

Personal life

McCoy and his wife, Agnes, have two children, one of whom, Sam Kent-Smith, is a 3D artist who appeared on the Doctor Who video game Return to Earth.

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Career

McCoy came to fame as a performer on "The Ken Campbell Roadshow," an experimental theatre troupe. In a play called "An Evening with Sylveste McCoy," he was best known for his stunts, including yelling ferrets down his trousers and setting his head on fire, as well as pulling his nose and nails up his nose and posing them up his nose and pointing ferrets down his trousers and putting his head on fire. The programme notes included Sylveste McCoy as played by "Sylveste McCoy," and after a reviewer mistook the joke and assumed that Sylveste McCoy was a real person, Kent-Smith adopted this as his stage name. McCoy added an "r" to the end of "Sylveste" several years later, in part due to the actors' superstition that a stage name with thirteen letters was unlucky.

Notable television appearances before he assumed the role of Doctor included starring Pepe/Epep, a character who lived in the mirror), an O-Man in Jigsaw and Tiswas. Sylveste (sic) appeared in wordless scenes shot outside of doors as he attempted to create consistent geometric shapes from various numbers of logs or carpet squares in every episode of the award-winning ATV schools maths program Leapfrog. He also appeared in Eureka, often as Wilf Lunn's inventions and as Wart's assistant and StarStrider in the CITV series of the same name. In one-man shows on the stage, McCoy was also depicted: Stan Laurel and Buster Keaton. In the 1985 television series The Last Place on Earth, Henry "Birdie" Bowers also appeared as Henry "Birdie" Bowers.

McCoy appeared in the 1979 film Dracula opposite Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence, and he has performed with the Welsh National Opera.

After taking over Doctor Who's lead role in 1987 from Colin Baker, McCoy became the Seventh Doctor. He remained on the series until 1989, ending with Survival (his twelfth and final serial as the Doctor). McCoy wore a wig for a brief period of time before being asked to film the regeneration scene as the Sixth Doctor. He appeared in Dimensions in Time, 1993, and again in 1996, as the Doctor in the Doctor Who television film starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.

McCoy, a comedy actor, played the character with a degree of humour in his first film, but script editor Andrew Cartmel changed it soon after fans claimed that the character (and plots) were becoming more resembled. The Seventh Doctor devolving into a much darker figure than any of his earlier incarnations, manipulating people like chess pieces, and generally seeming to be playing a deeper game. McCoy's signature feature was his demeanor, which was also a feature of his shows. He rolled his rs into his natural Scottish accent. He used proverbs and saids that were adapting to his own ends at the start of his tenure (e.g., in a.s. "There are many a slap twixt cup and lap," Delta and the Bannermen's scream, although this feature was lost during his tenure's later, darker sequence. Readers of Doctor Who magazine voted McCoy's Doctor "Best Doctor" over perennial favorite Tom Baker in 1990. He has been acting in the role of the Seventh Doctor in a string of audio plays for Big Finish Productions since 1999.

McCoy appeared in The Five Doctors Reboot, a one-off 50th anniversary comedy tribute.

McCoy returned to his role as 'The Doctor' alongside Bonnie Langford as Mel Bush in "A Business Proposal for Mel" in January 2021. This short video served as an announcement trailer for the 'The Collection: Season 24' Blu-Ray set,' which was released later this year.

In 2022, he reprised the role of the Doctor in the episode "The Power of the Doctor."

On the first night of broadcast of Channel 5, McCoy's television appearances since Doctor Who included Michael Sams in the 1997 film Beyond Fear. In a string of audio plays by Big Finish Productions, he has also appeared in the Seventh Doctor. In 1988, when she was still appearing in Doctor Who, McCoy hosted What's Your Story, in which viewers were encouraged to call in suggestions for the continuation of a pending drama.

He has also appeared in theatres as diverse as pantomime and Molière. In John McGrath's A Satire of the Four Estaites (1996) at the Edinburgh Festival, he appeared Grandpa Jock. In the macabre BBC Radio 4 comedy series The Cabaret of Dr. Caligari, he played Snuff.

McCoy did not appear in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, his second choice to play Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He launched the Doctor Who video documentary The Hartnell Years, a 1991 documentary film based on selected episodes of missing stories from the First Doctor's time.

In a BBC Production of Henry Fielding's book The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, McCoy appeared as the lawyer Dowling. He appeared in Paul Sellar's "The Dead Move Fast" at the Gilded Balloon as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2001, playing Doctor Mallinson. In JC Marshall's play Plume in 2012, he appeared as suicidal Mr. Peters.

McCoy has appeared in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, as well as in King Lear in 2007, where he performed the Fool to Ian McKellen's Lear, a performance that made use of McCoy's ability to play the spoons. During late July/early August 2007 and Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand, McKellen and McCoy appeared in Melbourne, and late August 2007 to late August 2007. In late 2007, it came to a stop at the New London Theatre, which was then shortened in January 2008. He reprised his role in the company's 2008 television film.

In May 2008, he appeared in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, playing the title role. He appeared at the Sheffield Lyceum briefly during the show's week. Despite being set in Japan, he was able to show his ability with the spoons by using his fan. Mr. Mushnik played Mr. Mushnik in the production of Little Shop of Horrors by McCoy in 2009.

He has appeared in television series "Father" as Rab's physically ill brother Gash Sr. and the Still Game episode "Oot" (AKA "Out"), where he played a hermit-type character adapting to life in modern Glasgow for more than 30 years. He played a minor guest role on Casualty in October 2008. In the same month, McCoy guest appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as an actor who appeared in "The Amazing Lollipop Man" as an actor. McCoy's role was created as a salute to him.

McCoy appeared in three-part BBC series The Real Marigold Hotel, which followed a group of prominent senior citizens, including Miriam Margolyes and Wayne Sleep, on a journey to India in January and February 2016.

In the film A Joke with Star Trek:Voyager actor Robert Picardo, he returned to the stage in Edinburgh in 2017.

McCoy played the Seventh Doctor in 1997 and released a new video for the video game Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors.

In 2011, McCoy began filming for The Hobbit, a three-part adaptation of the story. He portrays the wizard Radagast, alongside fellow King Lear actor Ian McKellen who reprises his role as Gandalf.

Although Radagast's role in The Hobbit is only mentioned in The Hobbit, and only a minor character in The Lord of the Rings, the role has been extended for the films.

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