7.1Acting
Paul McGann
- Born
- 1959-11-14
- Birthplace
- Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
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
173 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
Good Behaviour
2026 · Movie
Richard
Triesverse: Cataclysm
2026 · Movie
The Doctor
Bookish
2025 · TV Show
Mr. Kind
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025 · Movie
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Marbles
2025 · Movie
Lord Byron (voice)
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024 · Movie
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023 · Movie
Walsh
Talking Doctor Who
2023 · Movie
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023 · Movie
Jaggers
The Undertaker
2023 · Movie
Arthur
Anne
2022 · TV Show
Malcolm Thornton MP
Doctor Who Am I
2022 · Movie
Self
Swallow Your Dreams
2022 · Movie
James
Annika
2021 · TV Show
Jake Strathearn
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021 · TV Show
Self - Narrator
McDonald & Dodds
2020 · TV Show
Archie Addington
The Big Night In
2020 · Movie
Self
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019 · Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019 · Movie
Self
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019 · Movie
Cast
Victorian Sensations
2019 · TV Show
Self - Presenter
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018 · Movie
Himself
Picasso's Last Stand
2018 · Movie
Narrator
B&B
2017 · Movie
Josh
Brakes
2017 · Movie
Peter
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City
2017 · Movie
Narrator (English Voice)
Perplexed Music
2017 · Movie
Man
Wildest Europe
2017 · TV Show
Narrator
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
2016 · TV Show
Self – Narrator · Commissioning Editor
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016 · Movie
Narrator (Voice)
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016 · TV Show
Narrator
Absence
2015 · Movie
Man
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015 · Movie
Narrator
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015 · Movie
narrator
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015 · Movie
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Shark
2015 · TV Show
Himself - Narrator
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015 · Movie
self, narrator
Super Powered Owls
2015 · Movie
Narrator
The Other Prince William
2015 · Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Wild Sri Lanka
2015 · TV Show
Paul McGann
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014 · Movie
James Craven
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014 · Movie
Narrator
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014 · Movie
Cast
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014 · Movie
Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014 · Movie
Self
France: The Wild Side
2014 · Movie
Narrator
Secrets of the Castle
2014 · TV Show
Narrator (Voice)
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014 · Movie
Himself
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014 · Movie
Durian
The Musketeers
2014 · TV Show
St Pierre · Saint Pierre
Wildest Indochina
2014 · TV Show
Narrator (voice)
Wildest Middle East
2014 · TV Show
Narrator
Art Is...
2013 · Movie
Lulu's Dad
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013 · Movie
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013 · TV Show
Self
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013 · Movie
The Doctor
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013 · Movie
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013 · Movie
Self
A Mother's Son
2012 · TV Show
David
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012 · Movie
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Ripper Street
2012 · TV Show
Stanley Bone
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012 · Movie
Sir Rufus Isaacs
The Bletchley Circle
2012 · TV Show
John Richards
Tiger Island
2012 · Movie
Narrator
Wildest Islands
2012 · TV Show
Narrator
Wildest Latin America
2012 · TV Show
Self - Narrator (voice)
Digging The Great Escape
2011 · Movie
narrator
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011 · Movie
Cast
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011 · Movie
Narrator
The 9/11 Surfer
2011 · Movie
Narrator
Godard & Others
2010 · Movie
Torrence
Luther
2010 · TV Show
Mark North
The Day John Lennon Died
2010 · Movie
Narrator
Collision
2009 · TV Show
Richard Reeves
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009 · Movie
Vicar
Moving On
2009 · TV Show
Phil · Director
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008 · Movie
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008 · Movie
Clarence
My Dad Was a Communist
2008 · Movie
Narrator
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Movie
Self - Narrator
The True Story
2008 · TV Show
Narrator
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007 · Movie
Bill Mackinnon
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007 · Movie
Narrator
Davros Connections
2007 · Movie
(archival audio)
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007 · TV Show
Himself - Narrator (voice)
True Dare Kiss
2007 · TV Show
Nash McKinnon
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007 · Movie
Cast
If I Had You
2006 · Movie
Philip Andrews
Tripping Over
2006 · TV Show
Jeremy
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005 · Movie
Cast
Death of an Idealist
2005 · Movie
Narrator
Ghosts on the Underground
2005 · Movie
Narrator
Gypo
2005 · Movie
Paul
Kidnapped
2005 · TV Show
Cast
Psycho
2005 · TV Show
Narrator
The Orangutan King
2005 · Movie
Narrator
Twisted Tales
2005 · TV Show
Phone (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV Show
Dickie Erskine
Bible Mysteries
2004 · TV Show
Himself-Narrator
Lie with Me
2004 · TV Show
Gerry Henson
New Tricks
2004 · TV Show
D.C.I. James Larson
Sea of Souls
2004 · TV Show
Christopher Chambers
Zero Hour
2004 · TV Show
Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: Shada
2003 · Movie
The Doctor (voice)
Hornblower: Duty
2003 · Movie
Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003 · Movie
Lieutenant Bush
Listening
2003 · Movie
Man
Otherworld
2003 · Movie
King Matholwch (voice)
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003 · Movie
Self
Blood Strangers
2002 · TV Show
DC David Ingram
Queen of the Damned
2002 · Movie
David Talbot
The Biographer
2002 · Movie
Andrew Morton
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001 · Movie
Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Retribution
2001 · Movie
Lt. Bush
Hotel!
2001 · Movie
Ben Carter
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001 · Movie
Self- Narrator
My Kingdom
2001 · Movie
Dean
Real Crime
2001 · TV Show
Cast
Sweet Revenge
2001 · TV Show
Patrick Vine
Waking the Dead
2001 · TV Show
ACC Tony Nicholson
Fish
2000 · TV Show
Jonathan Vishnevski
Nature Boy
2000 · TV Show
Steve Witton
Forgotten
1999 · TV Show
Ben Turner
Holby City
1999 · TV Show
John Gaskell
Withnail and Us
1999 · Movie
Self
Hornblower
1998 · TV Show
William Bush
Our Mutual Friend
1998 · TV Show
Eugene Wrayburn
The Dance of Shiva
1998 · Movie
Captain Greville
Downtime
1997 · Movie
Rob
FairyTale: A True Story
1997 · Movie
Arthur Wright
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996 · Movie
Self
Catherine the Great
1996 · Movie
Potemkin
Doctor Who
1996 · Movie
The Doctor
Star Trek Story
1996 · Movie
Self - Commentary (voice)
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996 · TV Show
David (voice)
The Merchant of Venice
1996 · Movie
Bassanio
The One That Got Away
1996 · Movie
Chris Ryan
The Hanging Gale
1995 · Movie
Liam Phelan
The Hanging Gale
1995 · TV Show
Liam Phelan
The Three Musketeers
1993 · Movie
Girard / Jussac
Afraid of the Dark
1992 · Movie
Tony
Alien³
1992 · Movie
Golic
Nice Town
1992 · TV Show
Joe Thompson
The Making of 'Alien³'
1992 · Movie
Self
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990 · Movie
Colin
Paper Mask
1990 · Movie
Matthew Harris
The Monk
1990 · Movie
Father Lorenzo Rojas
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV Show
Dr. Peter Lord
Dealers
1989 · Movie
Daniel Pascoe
Streets of Yesterday
1989 · Movie
Joseph
The Rainbow
1989 · Movie
Anton Skrebensky
Tree of Hands
1989 · Movie
Barry
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988 · Movie
John Worthing
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987 · Movie
Giovanni Cariani
Empire of the Sun
1987 · Movie
Lieutenant Price
Withnail & I
1987 · Movie
...& I
ScreenPlay
1986 · TV Show
Giovanni Cariani
Sunday Premiere
1986 · TV Show
Percy Toplis
The Monocled Mutineer
1986 · TV Show
Percy Toplis
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
Colin
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984 · Movie
Mo Morris
Gaskin
1983 · Movie
Graham Gaskin
Give us a Break
1983 · TV Show
Mo Morris
Natural World
1983 · TV Show
Narrator
Whistling Wally
1982 · Movie
Norman
Fish
1977 · TV Show
Cast
Play for Today
1970 · TV Show
Norman
Horizon
1964 · TV Show
Himself