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