Paul McGann

male

Born on November 14, 1959 (66 years old)

From Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

Known for Acting

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.

Cast Credits

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

Paul McGann

Biography

Cast Credits

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

The Marbles

Bookish

Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show

Doctor Who at the Proms

Churchill’s Forgotten War

Mia and the Dragon Princess

The Day of the Sun Dog

The Undertaker

Talking Doctor Who

Swallow Your Dreams

Doctor Who Am I

Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor

Anne

Annika

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

The Big Night In

McDonald & Dodds

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On

Victorian Sensations

Picasso's Last Stand

Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land

Nero's Sunken City

Brakes

B&B

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

Perplexed Music

Wildest Europe

Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

Wildest Islands of Indonesia

Super Powered Owls

Absence

The Other Prince William

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

Churchill: When Britain Said No

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

Shark: Beneath the Surface

Shark

Wild Sri Lanka

Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

The Minister of Chance: Prologue

Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius

France: The Wild Side

Wildest Middle East

Secrets of the Castle

The Musketeers

The Musketeers

Wildest Indochina

Brady and Hindley: Possession

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

Art Is...

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

Tiger Island

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

Wildest Latin America

Wildest Islands

A Mother's Son

Ripper Street

The Bletchley Circle

The 9/11 Surfer

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

Digging The Great Escape

Gadaffi and the IRA

Godard & Others

The Day John Lennon Died