Paul McGann

Known For: Acting
Born: November 14, 1959
Place of Birth: Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

Paul McGann

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.

Filmography

Triesverse: Cataclysm

2026 · The Doctor

Good Behaviour

2026 · Richard

The Marbles

2025 · Lord Byron (voice)

Bookish

2025 · Mr. Kind

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025 · The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024 · The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Churchill’s Forgotten War

2024 · Narrator (voice)

The Day of the Sun Dog

2023 · Jaggers

The Undertaker

2023 · Arthur

Talking Doctor Who

2023 · Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Mia and the Dragon Princess

2023 · Walsh

Doctor Who Am I

2022 · Self

Swallow Your Dreams

2022 · James

Anne

2022 · Malcolm Thornton MP

Annika

2021 · Jake Strathearn

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

2021 · Self - Narrator

The Big Night In

2020 · Self

McDonald & Dodds

2020 · Archie Addington

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

2019

Victorian Sensations

2019 · Self - Presenter

The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On

2019 · Self

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

2019 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Picasso's Last Stand

2018 · Narrator

Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land

2018 · Himself

Perplexed Music

2017 · Man

Brakes

2017 · Peter

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

2017 · Narrator (voice)

Nero's Sunken City

2017 · Narrator (English Voice)

B&B

2017 · Josh

Wildest Europe

2017 · Narrator

Wildest Islands of Indonesia

2016 · Narrator

China: Between Clouds and Dreams

2016 · Commissioning Editor

Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

2016 · Narrator (Voice)

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015 · The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

2015 · Narrator

Absence

2015 · Man

The Other Prince William

The Other Prince William

2015 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

2015 · Narrator (voice)

Churchill: When Britain Said No

2015 · Narrator (voice)

Shark: Beneath the Surface

2015 · self, narrator

Shark

2015 · Himself - Narrator

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

2015 · narrator

Super Powered Owls

2015 · Narrator

Wild Sri Lanka

2015 · Paul McGann

Wildest Middle East

2014 · Narrator

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

2014 · Himself

Secrets of the Castle

2014 · Narrator (Voice)

The Minister of Chance: Prologue

2014 · Durian

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

2014 · Narrator (Voice)

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

2014 · Self

Wildest Indochina

2014 · Narrator (voice)

France: The Wild Side

2014 · Narrator

Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius

2014

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

2014 · James Craven

The Musketeers

2014 · St Pierre, Saint Pierre

Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting

2014 · Narrator

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013 · Self

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013 · The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

2013 · The Doctor

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

2013 · Himself - Narrator (voice)

Brady and Hindley: Possession

2013 · Narrator (voice)

Art Is...

2013 · Lulu's Dad

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

2013 · Self

Wildest Islands

2012 · Narrator

Ripper Street

2012 · Stanley Bone

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

2012 · Himself - Narrator (voice)

The Bletchley Circle

2012 · John Richards

A Mother's Son

2012 · David

Tiger Island

2012 · Narrator

Wildest Latin America

2012 · Self - Narrator (voice)

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

2012 · Sir Rufus Isaacs

Digging The Great Escape

2011 · narrator

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

2011

Gadaffi and the IRA

Gadaffi and the IRA

2011 · Narrator

The 9/11 Surfer

2011 · Narrator

The Day John Lennon Died

2010 · Narrator

Godard & Others

Godard & Others

2010 · Torrence

Luther

2010 · Mark North

Collision

2009 · Richard Reeves

Moving On

2009 · Phil, Director

Lesbian Vampire Killers

2009 · Vicar

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008 · The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Fables of Forgotten Things

2008 · Clarence

My Dad Was a Communist

2008 · Narrator

The True Story

2008 · Narrator

The Ties That Bind Us

2008 · Self - Narrator

Davros Connections

2007 · (archival audio)

The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest

2007 · Himself - Narrator (voice)

Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover

2007 · Narrator

True Dare Kiss

2007 · Nash McKinnon

Always Crashing in the Same Car

2007 · Bill Mackinnon

World of Compulsive Hoarders

2007

Tripping Over

2006 · Jeremy

If I Had You

2006 · Philip Andrews

Ghosts on the Underground

2005 · Narrator

The Orangutan King

2005 · Narrator

Gypo

2005 · Paul

Psycho

2005 · Narrator

Kidnapped

2005 · Colonel MacNab

Kidnapped

2005

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK

2005

Twisted Tales

2005 · Phone (voice)

Death of an Idealist

2005 · Narrator

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004 · Dickie Erskine

Lie with Me

2004 · Gerry Henson

Lie with Me

2004 · Gerry Henson

Zero Hour

2004 · Narrator (Voice)

Bible Mysteries

2004 · Himself-Narrator

Sea of Souls

2004 · Christopher Chambers

New Tricks

2004 · D.C.I. James Larson

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

2003 · Self

Listening

2003 · Man

Otherworld

2003 · King Matholwch (voice)

Doctor Who: Shada

2003 · The Doctor (voice)

Hornblower: Duty

2003 · Lieutenant Bush

Hornblower: Loyalty

2003 · Lieutenant Bush

The Biographer

2002 · Andrew Morton

Queen of the Damned

2002 · David Talbot

Blood Strangers

2002 · DC David Ingram

Blood Strangers

2002 · DC David Ingram

Sweet Revenge

2001 · Patrick Vine

My Kingdom

2001 · Dean

Waking the Dead

2001 · ACC Tony Nicholson

Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story

2001 · Self- Narrator

Hornblower: Retribution

2001 · Lt. Bush

Hornblower: Mutiny

2001 · Lieutenant Bush

Hotel!

2001 · Ben Carter

Fish

2000 · Jonathan Vishnevski

Nature Boy

2000 · Steve Witton

Withnail and Us

1999 · Self

Forgotten

1999 · Ben Turner

Holby City

1999 · John Gaskell

The Dance of Shiva

1998 · Captain Greville

Hornblower

1998 · William Bush

Our Mutual Friend

1998 · Eugene Wrayburn

FairyTale: A True Story

1997 · Arthur Wright

Downtime

1997 · Rob

Testament: The Bible in Animation

1996 · David (voice)

Star Trek Story

1996 · Self - Commentary (voice)

Doctor Who

1996 · The Doctor

Catherine the Great

1996 · Potemkin

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

1996 · Self

The One That Got Away

1996 · Chris Ryan

The Merchant of Venice

1996 · Bassanio

The Hanging Gale

1995 · Liam Phelan

The Hanging Gale

1995 · Liam Phelan

The Three Musketeers

1993 · Girard / Jussac

Nice Town

1992 · Joe Thompson

Alien³

1992 · Golic

Afraid of the Dark

1991 · Tony

Paper Mask

1990 · Matthew Harris

Drowning in the Shallow End

1990 · Colin

The Monk

1990 · Father Lorenzo Rojas

Dealers

1989 · Daniel Pascoe

The Rainbow

1989 · Anton Skrebensky

Streets of Yesterday

1989 · Joseph

Tree of Hands

1989 · Barry

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 · Dr. Peter Lord

The Importance of Being Earnest

1988 · John Worthing

Empire of the Sun

1987 · Lieutenant Price

Cariani and the Courtesans

1987 · Giovanni Cariani

Withnail & I

1987 · ...& I

The Monocled Mutineer

1986 · Percy Toplis

Sunday Premiere

Sunday Premiere

1986 · Percy Toplis

ScreenPlay

1986 · Giovanni Cariani

Screen Two

1985 · Colin

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

1984 · Mo Morris

Natural World

1983 · Narrator

Give us a Break

1983 · Mo Morris

Gaskin

1983 · Graham Gaskin

Whistling Wally

1982 · Norman

Fish

1977

Play for Today

1970 · Norman

Horizon

1964 · Himself

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