Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943)
is a Scottish actor and voice actor, best known for playing the
seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction
television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989â€"the final Doctor of
the original runâ€"and briefly returning in a television film in
1996.McCoy was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon, on the
Cowal peninsula, to an Irish mother and English father who was killed
in action in World War II a couple of months before his son was born.
His maternal grandmother was from Portadown, Northern Ireland. He was
raised religious, but is now an atheist.
is a Scottish actor and voice actor, best known for playing the
seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction
television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989â€"the final Doctor of
the original runâ€"and briefly returning in a television film in
1996.McCoy was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon, on the
Cowal peninsula, to an Irish mother and English father who was killed
in action in World War II a couple of months before his son was born.
His maternal grandmother was from Portadown, Northern Ireland. He was
raised religious, but is now an atheist.
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