Paul McGann
Known for Acting · 170 credits
- Born
- 1959-11-14 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- 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
TV Shows (54)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Dr. Peter Lord
Holby City
1999
as John Gaskell
Horizon
1964
as Himself
Play for Today
1970
as Norman
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Dickie Erskine
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
Waking the Dead
2001
as ACC Tony Nicholson
Screen Two
1985
as Colin
New Tricks
2004
as D.C.I. James Larson
Luther
2010
as Mark North
Ripper Street
2012
as Stanley Bone
The Musketeers
2014
as St Pierre / Saint Pierre
ScreenPlay
1986
as Giovanni Cariani
Moving On
2009
as Phil
McDonald & Dodds
2020
as Archie Addington
Hornblower
1998
as William Bush
Annika
2021
as Jake Strathearn
Bookish
2025
as Mr. Kind
The Bletchley Circle
2012
as John Richards
Fish
1977
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as David (voice)
Sea of Souls
2004
as Christopher Chambers
Zero Hour
2004
as Narrator (Voice)
Collision
2009
as Richard Reeves
Twisted Tales
2005
as Phone (voice)
Our Mutual Friend
1998
as Eugene Wrayburn
Anne
2022
as Malcolm Thornton MP
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
as Self
A Mother's Son
2012
as David
Tripping Over
2006
as Jeremy
Nature Boy
2000
as Steve Witton
Nice Town
1992
as Joe Thompson
The Hanging Gale
1995
as Liam Phelan
The Monocled Mutineer
1986
as Percy Toplis
True Dare Kiss
2007
as Nash McKinnon
Bible Mysteries
2004
as Himself-Narrator
Give us a Break
1983
as Mo Morris
Sweet Revenge
2001
as Patrick Vine
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
as Self - Narrator
Forgotten
1999
as Ben Turner
Fish
2000
as Jonathan Vishnevski
Wildest Islands
2012
as Narrator
Kidnapped
2005
Secrets of the Castle
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
Wildest Latin America
2012
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Shark
2015
as Himself - Narrator
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016
as Narrator
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Wildest Indochina
2014
as Narrator (voice)
Wildest Middle East
2014
as Narrator
Psycho
2005
as Narrator
Wildest Europe
2017
as Narrator
Wild Sri Lanka
2015
as Paul McGann
Victorian Sensations
2019
as Self - Presenter
Movies (116)
Alien³
1992
as Golic
Empire of the Sun
1987
as Lieutenant Price
The Three Musketeers
1993
as Girard / Jussac
Queen of the Damned
2002
as David Talbot
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who
1996
as The Doctor
Withnail & I
1987
as ...& I
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Arthur Wright
Catherine the Great
1996
as Potemkin
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009
as Vicar
The Rainbow
1989
as Anton Skrebensky
Listening
2003
as Man
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as Self
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
as Giovanni Cariani
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
The Undertaker
2023
as Arthur
Star Trek Story
1996
as Self - Commentary (voice)
Dealers
1989
as Daniel Pascoe
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
as Lieutenant Bush
Afraid of the Dark
1991
as Tony
Hotel!
2001
as Ben Carter
The Monk
1990
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
Paper Mask
1990
as Matthew Harris
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Good Behaviour
2026
as Richard
Tree of Hands
1989
as Barry
My Kingdom
2001
as Dean
Kidnapped
2005
as Colonel MacNab
The One That Got Away
1996
as Chris Ryan
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
as Self - Narrator
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
as Self
Hornblower: Duty
2003
as Lieutenant Bush
Downtime
1997
as Rob
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
as Lieutenant Bush
Otherworld
2003
as King Matholwch (voice)
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
as Walsh
Brakes
2017
as Peter
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
as Self
The Big Night In
2020
as Self
If I Had You
2006
as Philip Andrews
Digging The Great Escape
2011
as narrator
Gypo
2005
as Paul
The Marbles
2025
as Lord Byron (voice)
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
as Mo Morris
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024
as Narrator (voice)
The Hanging Gale
1995
as Liam Phelan
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
as Lt. Bush
Streets of Yesterday
1989
as Joseph
Perplexed Music
2017
as Man
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
as Self
B&B
2017
as Josh
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007
as Bill Mackinnon
Doctor Who Am I
2022
as Self
Talking Doctor Who
2023
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Gaskin
1983
as Graham Gaskin
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
2024
as The Doctor
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014
as Himself
Lie with Me
2004
as Gerry Henson
The Biographer
2002
as Andrew Morton
Doctor Who: Shada
2003
as The Doctor (voice)
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001
as Self- Narrator
Art Is...
2013
as Lulu's Dad
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Merchant of Venice
1996
as Bassanio
Nero's Sunken City
2017
as Narrator (English Voice)
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
as Colin
Withnail and Us
1999
as Self
The Dance of Shiva
1998
as Captain Greville
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
as Self
Ghosts on the Underground
2005
as Narrator
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
Davros Connections
2007
as (archival audio)
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
as Narrator (voice)
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988
as John Worthing
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor
Blood Strangers
2002
as DC David Ingram
Picasso's Last Stand
2018
as Narrator
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
The Day John Lennon Died
2010
as Narrator
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008
as Clarence
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018
as Himself
Swallow Your Dreams
2022
as James
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Tiger Island
2012
as Narrator
Whistling Wally
1982
as Norman
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023
as Jaggers
The 9/11 Surfer
2011
as Narrator
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014
as James Craven
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007
as Narrator
The Orangutan King
2005
as Narrator
Absence
2015
as Man
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015
as narrator
My Dad Was a Communist
2008
as Narrator
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015
as self, narrator
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014
as Durian
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016
as Narrator (Voice)
Super Powered Owls
2015
as Narrator
The Other Prince William
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Godard & Others
2010
as Torrence
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015
as Narrator
Death of an Idealist
2005
as Narrator
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014
as Narrator
France: The Wild Side
2014
as Narrator
Doctor Who: The Time War
as The Doctor
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011
as Narrator
About 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. With 170 credits spanning from 1964 to 2026, Paul McGann has appeared in 116 films and 54 TV shows.
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Most Popular Paul McGann Movies
- Alien³ (1992) — as Golic
- Empire of the Sun (1987) — as Lieutenant Price
- The Three Musketeers (1993) — as Girard / Jussac
- Queen of the Damned (2002) — as David Talbot
- Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015) — as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
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