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Paul McGann

Paul McGann

Born: 1959-11-14 • Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

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.

Filmography
The Marbles poster
The Marbles
2025 • Lord Byron (voice)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War poster
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025 • The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show poster
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
2024 • The Doctor
Doctor Who at the Proms poster
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024 • The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Churchill’s Forgotten War poster
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024 • Narrator (voice)
The Day of the Sun Dog poster
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023 • Jaggers
The Undertaker poster
The Undertaker
2023 • Arthur
Talking Doctor Who poster
Talking Doctor Who
2023 • Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess poster
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023 • Walsh
Doctor Who Am I poster
Doctor Who Am I
2022 • Self
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor poster
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
2022 • The Doctor
Swallow Your Dreams poster
Swallow Your Dreams
2022 • James
The Big Night In poster
The Big Night In
2020 • Self
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years poster
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On poster
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019 • Self
Swans: Mystery of the Missing poster
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019 • Narrator (voice)
Picasso's Last Stand poster
Picasso's Last Stand
2018 • Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land poster
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018 • Himself
Brakes poster
Brakes
2017 • Peter
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence poster
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017 • Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City poster
Nero's Sunken City
2017 • Narrator (English Voice)
B&B poster
B&B
2017 • Josh
Perplexed Music poster
Perplexed Music
2017 • Man
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack poster
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016 • Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song poster
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015 • The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire poster
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015 • Narrator
Absence poster
Absence
2015 • Man
No Image
The Other Prince William
2015 • Self - Narrator (voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden poster
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015 • Narrator (voice)
Churchill: When Britain Said No poster
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015 • Narrator (voice)
Shark: Beneath the Surface poster
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015 • self, narrator
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace poster
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015 • narrator
Super Powered Owls poster
Super Powered Owls
2015 • Narrator
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story poster
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014 • Himself
The Minister of Chance: Prologue poster
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014 • Durian
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race poster
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014 • Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison poster
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014 • Self
France: The Wild Side poster
France: The Wild Side
2014 • Narrator
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius poster
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road poster
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014 • James Craven
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting poster
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014 • Narrator
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot poster
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013 • Self
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor poster
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013 • The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor poster
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013 • The Doctor
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence poster
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013 • Himself - Narrator (voice)
Brady and Hindley: Possession poster
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013 • Narrator (voice)
Art Is... poster
Art Is...
2013 • Lulu's Dad
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker poster
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012 • Himself - Narrator (voice)
No Image
Tiger Island
2012 • Narrator
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry poster
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012 • Sir Rufus Isaacs
Digging The Great Escape poster
Digging The Great Escape
2011 • narrator
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time poster
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
No Image
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011 • Narrator
The 9/11 Surfer poster
The 9/11 Surfer
2011 • Narrator
The Day John Lennon Died poster
The Day John Lennon Died
2010 • Narrator
No Image
Godard & Others
2010 • Torrence
Lesbian Vampire Killers poster
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009 • Vicar
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor poster
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008 • The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Fables of Forgotten Things poster
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008 • Clarence
My Dad Was a Communist poster
My Dad Was a Communist
2008 • Narrator
The Ties That Bind Us poster
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 • Self - Narrator
Davros Connections poster
Davros Connections
2007 • (archival audio)
Always Crashing in the Same Car poster
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007 • Bill Mackinnon
World of Compulsive Hoarders poster
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
If I Had You poster
If I Had You
2006 • Philip Andrews
Ghosts on the Underground poster
Ghosts on the Underground
2005 • Narrator
The Orangutan King poster
The Orangutan King
2005 • Narrator
Gypo poster
Gypo
2005 • Paul
Kidnapped poster
Kidnapped
2005 • Colonel MacNab
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK poster
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
Death of an Idealist poster
Death of an Idealist
2005 • Narrator
Lie with Me poster
Lie with Me
2004 • Gerry Henson
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' poster
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003 • Self
No Image
Listening
2003 • Man
Otherworld poster
Otherworld
2003 • King Matholwch (voice)
Doctor Who: Shada poster
Doctor Who: Shada
2003 • The Doctor (voice)
Hornblower: Duty poster
Hornblower: Duty
2003 • Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Loyalty poster
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003 • Lieutenant Bush
The Biographer poster
The Biographer
2002 • Andrew Morton
Queen of the Damned poster
Queen of the Damned
2002 • David Talbot
Blood Strangers poster
Blood Strangers
2002 • DC David Ingram
My Kingdom poster
My Kingdom
2001 • Dean
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story poster
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001 • Self- Narrator
Hornblower: Retribution poster
Hornblower: Retribution
2001 • Lt. Bush
Hornblower: Mutiny poster
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001 • Lieutenant Bush
Hotel! poster
Hotel!
2001 • Ben Carter
Withnail and Us poster
Withnail and Us
1999 • Self
The Dance of Shiva poster
The Dance of Shiva
1998 • Captain Greville
FairyTale: A True Story poster
FairyTale: A True Story
1997 • Arthur Wright
Downtime poster
Downtime
1997 • Rob
Star Trek Story poster
Star Trek Story
1996 • Self - Commentary (voice)
Doctor Who poster
Doctor Who
1996 • The Doctor
Catherine the Great poster
Catherine the Great
1996 • Potemkin
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary poster
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996 • Self
The One That Got Away poster
The One That Got Away
1996 • Chris Ryan
The Merchant of Venice poster
The Merchant of Venice
1996 • Bassanio
The Hanging Gale poster
The Hanging Gale
1995 • Liam Phelan
The Three Musketeers poster
The Three Musketeers
1993 • Girard / Jussac
Alien³ poster
Alien³
1992 • Golic
Afraid of the Dark poster
Afraid of the Dark
1991 • Tony