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Sylvester McCoy
Date disregard birth
August Twentieth,
Place draw round birth
Dunoon, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
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Sylvester McCoy
Scottish actor (born )
Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith (born 20 August ), known professionally as Sylvester McCoy, is a Scottish actor. Gaining prominence as a physical comedian,[1][2] he became best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from to —the final Doctor of the original run—and briefly returning in a television film in He is also known for his work as Radagast in The Hobbit film series (–).
Early life
[edit]McCoy was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith[3] in Dunoon, on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish Catholic mother and an English father who had died in action during World War II a couple of months before McCoy was born;[4] he met his father's family at the age of [3] His mother suffered a mental breakdown when McCoy was eight years old, and was institutionalised thereafter.[5] Prior to adopting his stage name, McCoy was known as Kent Smith; he was unaware of his given names until he was eleven.[5]
McCoy was raised primarily in Dunoon,[3] where he attended Saint Mun's School; he then studied for the priesthood at Blairs College, a seminary in Aberdeen between the ages of 12
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Sylvester McCoy was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith on 20 August , the only child of Molly Sheridan and Percy James Kent-Smith, a couple living in Dunoon, Scotland. His mother was Irish. Percy James Kent-Smith was killed in the Second World War a couple of months before his son was born, and he was brought up by his mother, his grandmother (Mary Sheridan), and his aunts. He attended St Muns Primary School in Dunoon. The headmistress, Rosie O'Grady, was keen that her young charges obtain decent jobs upon leaving the school and so organized regular talks from people in all manner of professions.
McCoy expressed an interest in every job, and as a result eventually found himself given an afternoon off school to go to see a local priest about entering the priesthood. He left school, joined Blairs College, a Catholic seminary in Aberdeen, and between the ages of twelve and sixteen trained to be a priest. At Blairs College, he realized that there was more to life than could be found in Dunoon and discovered classical music and history, which fascinated him. He eventually decided to become a monk and applied to join a Dominican order, but his application was rejected as he was too young. He returned to school and soon discovered the delights of the opposite sex in the form