Paul McGann

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
November 14, 1959

Place of Birth:
Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

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Paul McGann

Biography

Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959) is an English actor who made his name on The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role. He is also known for his role in Withnail and I, and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie as well as other media that features his incarnation of the character.

Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2025 Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024 Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show The Doctor
2024 Doctor Who at the Proms The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024 Churchill’s Forgotten War Narrator (voice)
2023 Mia and the Dragon Princess Walsh
2023 The Day of the Sun Dog Jaggers
2023 The Undertaker Arthur
2023 Talking Doctor Who Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2022 Swallow Your Dreams James
2022 Doctor Who Am I Self
2019 The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019 Swans: Mystery of the Missing Narrator (voice)
2019 Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann
2019 The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On Self
2018 Picasso's Last Stand Narrator
2018 Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land Himself
2017 Nero's Sunken City Narrator (English Voice)
2017 Brakes Peter
2017 B&B Josh
2017 Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence Narrator (voice)
2017 Perplexed Music Man
2016 Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack Narrator (Voice)
2015 Super Powered Owls Narrator
2015 Absence Man
2015 The Other Prince William Self - Narrator (voice)
2015 Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden Narrator (voice)
2015 China - Treasures of the Jade Empire Narrator
2015 Churchill: When Britain Said No Narrator (voice)
2015 Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015 Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace narrator
2014 Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting Narrator
2014 Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison Self
2014 A Little Place Off the Edgware Road James Craven
2014 Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race Narrator (Voice)
2014 The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story Himself
2013 Brady and Hindley: Possession Narrator (voice)
2013 The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot Self
2013 Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013 Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor The Doctor
2013 JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013 Art Is... Lulu's Dad
2012 Tiger Island Narrator
2012 Britain's Greatest Codebreaker Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012 SOS: The Titanic Inquiry Sir Rufus Isaacs
2011 The 9/11 Surfer Narrator
2011 Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011 Digging The Great Escape narrator
2010 Godard & Others Torrence
2010 The Day John Lennon Died Narrator
2009 Lesbian Vampire Killers Vicar
2008 My Dad Was a Communist Narrator
2008 Fables of Forgotten Things Clarence
2008 Doctor Who: The Next Doctor The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2008 The Ties That Bind Us Narrator
2007 Always Crashing in the Same Car Bill Mackinnon
2007 World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007 Davros Connections (archival audio)
2006 If I Had You Philip Andrews
2005 Gypo Paul
2005 The Orangutan King Narrator
2005 Death of an Idealist Narrator
2005 Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005 Ghosts on the Underground Narrator
2005 Kidnapped Colonel MacNab
2004 Lie with Me Gerry Henson
2003 Hornblower: Loyalty Lieutenant Bush
2003 Hornblower: Duty Lieutenant Bush
2003 Otherworld King Matholwch (voice)
2003 Doctor Who: Shada The Doctor (voice)
2003 Listening Man
2003 Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' Self
2002 Queen of the Damned David Talbot
2002 Blood Strangers DC David Ingram
2002 The Biographer Andrew Morton
2001 Hornblower: Mutiny Lieutenant Bush
2001 My Kingdom Dean
2001 Hornblower: Retribution Lt. Bush
2001 Hotel! Ben Carter
1999 Withnail and Us Self
1998 The Dance of Shiva Captain Greville
1997 Downtime Rob
1997 FairyTale: A True Story Arthur Wright
1996 The One That Got Away Chris Ryan
1996 Doctor Who The Doctor
1996 Catherine the Great Potemkin
1996 Star Trek Story Self - Commentary (voice)
1996 The Merchant of Venice Bassanio
1996 Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary Self
1995 The Hanging Gale Liam Phelan
1993 The Three Musketeers Girard / Jussac
1992 Alien³ Golic
1991 Afraid of the Dark Tony
1990 Paper Mask Matthew Harris
1990 Drowning in the Shallow End Colin
1990 The Monk Father Lorenzo Rojas
1989 The Rainbow Anton Skrebensky
1989 Dealers Daniel Pascoe
1989 Streets of Yesterday Joseph
1989 Tree of Hands Barry
1988 The Importance of Being Earnest John Worthing
1987 Withnail & I ...& I
1987 Cariani and the Courtesans Giovanni Cariani
1987 Empire of the Sun Lieutenant Price
1984 Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle Mo Morris
1983 Gaskin Graham Gaskin
1982 Whistling Wally Norman
Year TV Show Role
2022 Anne Malcolm Thornton MP
2021 Annika Jake Strathearn
2021 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World Self - Narrator
2020 McDonald & Dodds Archie Addington
2019 Victorian Sensations Self - Presenter
2017 Wildest Europe Narrator
2016 Wildest Islands of Indonesia Narrator
2015 Shark Himself - Narrator
2015 Wild Sri Lanka Paul McGann
2014 Wildest Middle East Narrator
2014 Secrets of the Castle Narrator (Voice)
2014 The Musketeers St Pierre
2014 The Musketeers Saint Pierre
2014 Wildest Indochina Narrator (voice)
2013 Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited Self
2012 Wildest Latin America Self - Narrator (voice)
2012 Wildest Islands Narrator
2012 A Mother's Son David
2012 Ripper Street Stanley Bone
2010 Luther Mark North
2009 Collision Richard Reeves
2009 Moving On Phil
2007 True Dare Kiss Nash McKinnon
2007 The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest Himself - Narrator (voice)
2006 Tripping Over Jeremy
2005 Twisted Tales
2005 Kidnapped
2005 Psycho Narrator
2004 Sea of Souls Christopher Chambers
2004 New Tricks D.C.I. James Larson
2004 Bible Mysteries Himself-Narrator
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple Dickie Erskine
2001 Sweet Revenge Patrick Vine
2001 Waking the Dead ACC Tony Nicholson
2000 Fish Jonathan Vishnevski
2000 Nature Boy Steve Witton
1999 Forgotten Ben Turner
1998 Our Mutual Friend Eugene Wrayburn
1998 Hornblower William Bush
1996 Testament: The Bible in Animation David (voice)
1995 The Hanging Gale Liam Phelan
1992 Nice Town Joe Thompson
1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot Dr. Peter Lord
1986 The Monocled Mutineer Percy Toplis
1983 Natural World Narrator
1983 Give us a Break Mo Morris
1977 Fish
1970 Play for Today Norman
1964 Horizon Himself
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