
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