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| [[Image:Sylvester McCoy.jpg|right|200px|Sylvester McCoy in an early 1990s agency publicity portrait]]
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| '''Sylvester McCoy''' (born [[20th August|20]] [[August]], [[1943]]) played the [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]] of [[the Doctor]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]], beginning with "[[Time and the Rani]]" and ending with "[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]"and in the [[1996]] ''Doctor Who'' [[Doctor Who: The TV Movie|television movie]]. He is sometimes credited as '''Sylveste McCoy'''.
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| He was born '''Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith''' in Dunoon, [[Scotland]]. In his youth, he trained for the priesthood, but gave this up and spent time working in the insurance industry. He worked in The Roundhouse box office for a time, where he was discovered by Ken Campbell.
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| He came to prominence as a member of the comedy act "The Ken Campbell Roadshow." His best known act was as a stuntman character called "Sylveste McCoy", whose stunts included putting a fork and nails up his nose and stuffing [[ferret]]s down his trousers. As a joke, the programme notes listed Sylveste McCoy as played by "Sylvester McCoy", and after a reviewer missed the joke and assumed that Sylvester McCoy was a real person, Kent-Smith adopted this as his stage name. Notable television appearances before he gained the role of the Doctor included roles in ''Vision On'' (where he played Pepe, a character who lived in the mirror) and ''Tiswas''. McCoy also portrayed in one man shows on the stage two famous movie comedians, Stan Laurel and Buster Keaton. He also appeared as Bowers in the [[1985]] television mini series about Robert Falcon Scott's last antarctic expedition, ''The Last Place On Earth'', and had a small role in the [[1979]] film version of ''[[Dracula]]'', with Laurence Olivier and Frank Langella. (McCoy had also played the title role onstage.)
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| He took over the lead role of ''Doctor Who'' in [[1987]] from [[Colin Baker]], and remained until the series was shelved in [[1989]]. He played the Doctor in the [[1993]] charity special ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'', and again in [[1996]], appearing in the ''Doctor Who'' television movie where he handed the role over to [[Paul McGann]]. In his first season, McCoy, a comedy actor, portrayed the character with a degree of clown-like humour, but [[script editor]] [[Andrew Cartmel]] soon changed that. The Seventh Doctor developed into a much darker figure than any of his earlier incarnations, manipulating people like chess pieces and always seeming to be playing a deeper game. McCoy generally approved of this, as it allowed him to play more of a dramatic role.
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| A distinguishing feature of McCoy's performances was his manner of speech. He used a slight Scottish accent, rolled his 'r's, and often placed emphasis on unusual syllables or words. This has the added (possibly intentional) effect of sounding a little alien, and wrong-footing the audience. It also made the viewer question established speech patterns often taken for granted. At the start of his tenure he used proverbs and sayings adapted to his own ends (eg. "There's many a slap twixt cup and lap" - ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]''), although this characteristic was phased out during the later, darker seasons of his tenure.
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| Although McCoy only appeared as the Doctor for three seasons (plus ''[[Search Out Science]]'', ''Dimensions In Time'', the telemovie, and audio dramas), fandom treated him as the "current" Doctor from [[1987]] to [[1996]]. This view can be argued not just because he was the last actor to play the role, but also due to the Seventh Doctor's continuing presence as the Doctor in original novels and comic strips. Accordingly, some consider him to have beaten [[Tom Baker]]'s seven year record as the Doctor, although by some criteria McCoy's record is beaten by [[Paul McGann]] who would be identified as the current Doctor from 1996 until [[2005]].
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| Through the [[1990s]], some ''Doctor Who'' fans blamed McCoy for the shelving of the original series, though ratings competition from ''Coronation Street'' seemed a far more likely reason. The rec.arts.drwho Usenet group became especially notorious as a place where one could be branded and attacked as a "pro-McCoy troll" for no other reason than expressing a liking for the Seventh Doctor.
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| McCoy's television roles since ''Doctor Who'' have included Michael Sams in the [[1997]] telemovie ''Beyond Fear'', shown on the first night of broadcast of Channel Five. He has also returned to play the Seventh Doctor in a series of audio plays by [[Big Finish Productions]].
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| He has also acted extensively in theatre in productions as diverse as pantomime and Molière. He played the role of Snuff in the macabre BBC Radio 4 comedy series ''The Cabaret of Dr Caligari''.
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| ==External links==
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| *{{imdb name|id=0566809|name=Sylvester McCoy}}
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| *[http://www.kasterborous.com/articles.asp?id=1 Travelling Light - Sylvester McCoy article at Kasterborous.com]
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| * [http://www.sylvestermccoy.com Sylvester McCoy] - The Unofficial Site
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| {{Wikipedia|Sylvester_McCoy}}
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| [[Category:Real World|McCoy, Sylvester]]
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| [[Category:Doctor Who cast|McCoy, Sylvester]]
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