Shaun Cassidy

On August 28, 2004, he married his third wife, producer Tracey Turner.
. He has 2 children by his first wife, model Ann Pennington, and 1 child by his second wife, actress Susan Diol. He has also acted extensively in theatre. Among his credits are the hit CBS shows Cold Case and The Agency. He has also returned to play the Seventh Doctor in a series of audio plays by Big Finish Productions. Cassidy has ventured into writing and producing. His television roles since Doctor Who have included the villain in the 1997 telemovie Beyond Fear.

He starred in the popular Hardy Boys television series from 1978, and made his Broadway debut in 1993 in a production of Blood Brothers. Accordingly, some consider him to have beaten Tom Baker's seven year record as the Doctor. He achieved two further top ten singles with cover versions of Eric Carmen's "That's Rock 'N' Roll" and "Hey Deanie" the same year. Although McCoy only appeared as the Doctor for three seasons (plus the telemovie), he was considered the "current" Doctor from 1987 to 1996. He released several successful singles in the late 1970s with his first single, a cover version of The Crystals "Da Do Ron Ron", hit #1 in the United States in 1977, and, like David, became a major teen idol. He played the Doctor again in 1996, appearing in the Doctor Who television movie where he handed the role over to Paul McGann. He went to the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Nicolas Cage, David Schwimmer and Lenny Kravitz. He took over the lead role of Doctor Who in 1987, taking over from Colin Baker, and remained the lead until the series was shelved in 1989 (see List of Doctor Who serials).

The eldest of Broadway entertainer Jack Cassidy's and actress Shirley Jones's three sons, Cassidy was inspired by the success of his half-brother David Cassidy of the Partridge Family. Notable television appearances before he gained the role of the Doctor included roles in Vision On and Tiswas. Shaun Paul Cassidy (born September 27, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and actor. 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. His best known act was as a stuntman character called "Sylveste McCoy", whose stunts included putting a fork up his nose and stuffing ferrets down his trousers. He came to prominence as a member of the comedy act "The Ken Campbell Roadshow".

He was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon, Scotland. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, the last before the programme was put on hiatus in 1989. Sylvester McCoy (born August 20, 1943) is a British actor.