Paul McGann
Paul McGann
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
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
159
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-11-14 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Acting

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2024

Churchill’s Forgotten War as Narrator (voice)

2023

The Undertaker as Arthur

2023

Talking Doctor Who as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2023

The Day of the Sun Dog as Jaggers

2022

Anne as Malcolm Thornton MP

2022

Doctor Who Am I as Self

2022

Swallow Your Dreams as James

2021

Annika as Jake Strathearn

2020

McDonald & Dodds as Archie Addington

2019

Swans: Mystery of the Missing as Narrator (voice)

2019

Victorian Sensations as Self - Presenter

2019

Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann as Not available

2018

Picasso's Last Stand as Narrator

2017

Wildest Europe as Narrator

2017

B&B as Josh

2017

Brakes as Peter

2017

Nero's Sunken City as Narrator (English Voice)

2017

Perplexed Music as Man

2015

Shark as Himself - Narrator

2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

2015

Wild Sri Lanka as Paul McGann

2015

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden as Narrator (voice)

2015

Churchill: When Britain Said No as Narrator (voice)

2015

Absence as Man

2015

The Other Prince William as Self - Narrator (voice)

2015

Super Powered Owls as Narrator

2014

The Musketeers as St Pierre

2014

The Musketeers as Saint Pierre

2014

Secrets of the Castle as Narrator (Voice)

2014

Wildest Middle East as Narrator

2014

Wildest Indochina as Narrator (voice)

2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2013

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2013

Art Is... as Lulu's Dad

2013

Brady and Hindley: Possession as Narrator (voice)

2012

Ripper Street as Stanley Bone

2012

Wildest Islands as Narrator

2012

A Mother's Son as David

2012

Wildest Latin America as Self - Narrator (voice)

2012

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2012

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry as Sir Rufus Isaacs

2012

Tiger Island as Narrator

2011

Digging The Great Escape as narrator

2011

The 9/11 Surfer as Narrator

2011

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time as Not available

2010

Luther as Mark North

2010

Godard & Others as Torrence

2010

The Day John Lennon Died as Narrator

2009

Moving On as Phil

2009

Collision as Richard Reeves

2008

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2008

The Ties That Bind Us as Narrator

2008

My Dad Was a Communist as Narrator

2007

True Dare Kiss as Nash McKinnon

2007

The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2007

Always Crashing in the Same Car as Bill Mackinnon

2007

Davros Connections as (archival audio)

2007

World of Compulsive Hoarders as Not available

2006

Tripping Over as Jeremy

2006

If I Had You as Philip Andrews

2005

Doctor Who as The Doctor (archive footage)

2005

Doctor Who as The Doctor

2005

Twisted Tales as Not available

2005

Kidnapped as Not available

2005

Gypo as Paul

2005

Psycho as Narrator

2005

The Orangutan King as Narrator

2005

Death of an Idealist as Narrator

2005

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK as Not available

2005

Kidnapped as Colonel MacNab

2005

Ghosts on the Underground as Narrator

2004

New Tricks as D.C.I. James Larson

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple as Dickie Erskine

2004

Sea of Souls as Christopher Chambers

2004

Bible Mysteries as Himself-Narrator

2004

Lie with Me as Gerry Henson

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty as Lieutenant Bush

2003

Doctor Who: Shada as The Doctor (voice)

2003

Hornblower: Duty as Lieutenant Bush

2003

Otherworld as King Matholwch (voice)

2003

Listening as Man

2002

Queen of the Damned as David Talbot

2002

The Biographer as Andrew Morton

2002

Blood Strangers as DC David Ingram

2001

Waking the Dead as ACC Tony Nicholson

2001

Sweet Revenge as Patrick Vine

2001

My Kingdom as Dean

2001

Hornblower: Mutiny as Lieutenant Bush

2001

Hornblower: Retribution as Lt. Bush

2001

Hotel! as Ben Carter

2000

Nature Boy as Steve Witton

2000

Fish as Jonathan Vishnevski

1999

Forgotten as Ben Turner

1999

Withnail and Us as Self

1998

Hornblower as William Bush

1998

Our Mutual Friend as Eugene Wrayburn

1998

The Dance of Shiva as Captain Greville

1997

Jonathan Creek as Hugo Dore

1997

FairyTale: A True Story as Arthur Wright

1997

Downtime as Rob

1996

Testament: The Bible in Animation as David (voice)

1996

Doctor Who as The Doctor

1996

Catherine the Great as Potemkin

1996

The One That Got Away as Chris Ryan

1996

Star Trek Story as Self - Commentary (voice)

1996

The Merchant of Venice as Bassanio

1995

The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan

1995

The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan

1993

The Three Musketeers as Girard / Jussac

1992

Alien³ as Golic

1992

Nice Town as Joe Thompson

1991

Afraid of the Dark as Tony

1990

Paper Mask as Matthew Harris

1990

The Monk as Father Lorenzo Rojas

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Dr. Peter Lord

1989

The Rainbow as Anton Skrebensky

1989

Dealers as Daniel Pascoe

1989

Streets of Yesterday as Joseph

1989

Tree of Hands as Barry

1988

The Importance of Being Earnest as John Worthing

1987

Empire of the Sun as Lieutenant Price

1987

Withnail & I as ...& I

1987

Cariani and the Courtesans as Giovanni Cariani

1986

The Monocled Mutineer as Percy Toplis

1983

Natural World as Narrator

1983

Give us a Break as Mo Morris

1983

Gaskin as Graham Gaskin

1982

Whistling Wally as Norman

1977

Fish as Not available

1970

Play for Today as Norman

1964

Horizon as Himself

1963

Doctor Who as The Doctor
Crew

2016

China: Between Clouds and Dreams Commissioning Editor

2009

Moving On Director