Sylvester McCoy. Early life[edit] He was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon,[1] on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish mother and English father, killed in action in World War II a couple of months before his son was born.[2] Career[edit]
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He seems to have done mostly comedy and children's television before taking the part. After the sacking of Colin Baker, the casting of McCoy seemed like adding insult to injury, and I firmly believed he was the worst actor ever to take the part - very prone to over the top outbursts of anger or anxiety, which are simply embarrassing to watch. That said, I rather enjoyed his first season, a series of light-hearted adventure stories and surreal comedies, in which McCoy played the Doctor as a bit of a clown, with just occasional hints of the Doctor's true personality showing through.
It worked well enough. Those around him. Hero. Sixth Doctor regenerates - Colin Baker to Sylvester McCoy - Doctor Who - Time and the Rani - BBC. Sylvester McCoy. Profile Edit Prior to Doctor Who Edit He was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon, Scotland.
In his youth he trained for the priesthood but gave this up and worked for a time in the insurance industry. Interview: Sylvester McCoy, actor - Performing Arts. Whisking off from Middle Earth to rematerialise in Merchant City is typical of Sylvester McCoy’s mercurial career, which has taken in the Tardis, Tiswas, opera … and virtuoso spoons .
By Mark Fisher When The Hobbit hits the big screen in December, it will be the most eagerly anticipated film of 2012. By that time, Tolkien fans will have waited nine years for an extra helping of Middle Earth mayhem from Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. With an all-star cast and a reported budget of $150 million (about £94m) each, the two Hobbit movies – this year’s An Unexpected Journey and its sequel, There and Back Again – are very big business indeed. Not big enough, however, to stand in the way of the Tron Theatre. “I asked Peter Jackson if he could move my filming dates so I could come to Glasgow and do this,” says McCoy with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. That the same man can so comfortably switch from blockbuster movie to fringe theatre says a lot about McCoy’s personality. Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann confirm anniversary special non-involvement. Former Doctor Who stars Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann have revealed that they definitely won’t be appearing in the BBC sci-fi drama’s upcoming 50th anniversary episode, largely because they're currently in the wrong hemisphere.
The anniversary special is being filmed in this country as we speak, but seeing as the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors are all in Australia attending sci-fi conventions at the moment, they won’t be able to take part. The three actors appeared today on the Australian chat-show Mornings and, during a discussion about Doctor Who, put paid to the idea that they might yet appear in the anniversary episode. “They’re actually making it now,” said Baker. 'Doctor Who's Sylvester McCoy: 'Producers don't want old Doctors back' - Doctor Who News - Cult.
Sylvester McCoy on 'Who' 50th: 'Past Doctors haven't heard anything' - Doctor Who News - Cult. Sylvester McCoy interview: The Hobbit, Doctor Who and more. The fates didn't seem to be with us when we called up Sylvester McCoy for a brief chat primarily about his work in The Hobbit, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK today.
A bad line plagued the call, sadly, but we did still manage to talk Doctor Who, The Hobbit and Richard Briers. Here's how we got on.. Shall we get the inevitable Doctor Who question done first! I figure everyone asks you, but do you have any involvement in the 50th anniversary at any level? No! One Doctor Who thing I did want to ask you. It was great working with him. You always said when working on Doctor Who that the biggest enemy was never money, it was time.
Well, there's always pressure on filming. The time pressure sounds a little more relaxed than Doctor Who, though? Time can be a constraint. I read David Weston's book, Covering McKellen, about your year-long RSC experience touring King Lear. Yes it does actually. Did you get a feel of being part of it then, considering you were dipping in and out? Yes. How I brought back Sylvester McCoy as Doctor Who. Sylvester McCoy will always be my Doctor.
This is partly because he appeals to my maternal side: with the other Doctors, they’re heroic and I dream one day they may rescue me. With Sylv, I want to smash the TV screen and rescue him. But when the show was suspended in 1989 – with no official announcement, and no explanation - I felt bereft. I hadn’t had time to grieve for him properly: to see him regenerate.
And when it came back in 1996, it wasn’t the same show: it was some weird American spin-off. Yes – on Monday 13th October 2008, for one episode only, Sylvester McCoy will play a time travelling eccentric…on the run from his own people, and lying low on the planet Earth. So that’s the basic gist of the story I submitted (in April this year), and when it was commissioned, naturally I wanted my Doctor to play the Lollipop Man, but you have to be a bit careful when making suggestions to TV people: they don’t like to be taught their jobs.