Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoyis a Scottish actor, best known for playing the seventh incarnation of 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 returning in a television film in 1996 and for his role as the wizard Radagast the Brown in Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Hobbit...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth20 August 1943
literary lord
'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.
lakes decision boulders
Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
movement lines looks
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
yes
I have the philosophy of yes. If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.
convention
I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.
death love whom
I've got two sons whom I love to death, and I love them differently.
love
The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!
life lord rite
They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.
performing
I do actually like performing to a live audience. I like the response. I do a lot of Doctor Who conventions now, and the reason that I do them is that there is a live audience I can get to directly.
amazing amount focused freedom innovation market mass time
I think back to my time in children's television, back in the 1970s, and the amount of innovation that was going on then. Because the mass market wasn't focused on it, so you had a freedom to do amazing things, like 'Vision On,' and 'Tiswas.'
best quite second time turn
In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.
believes days early great outside rather superhero wear
There's still a part of me that believes what was great about 'Doctor Who' in the early days was that you had a superhero who didn't wear his underpants on the outside of his trousers, who used his brain rather than his brawn.
career parallel since totally tv variety
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.