Paul McGann
Born
November 14, 1959 (65 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
The Doctor
2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War
Narrator (voice)
2024
The Day of the Sun Dog
Jaggers
2023
The Undertaker
Arthur
2023
Talking Doctor Who
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023
Mia and the Dragon Princess
Walsh
2023
Doctor Who Am I
Self
2022
Swallow Your Dreams
James
2022
Anne
Malcolm Thornton MP · (4 episodes)
2022
Annika
Jake Strathearn · (6 episodes)
2021
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Self - Narrator · (3 episodes)
2021
McDonald & Dodds
Archie Addington · (1 episode)
2020
Victorian Sensations
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Self
2019
Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann
2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Narrator (voice)
2019
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
Picasso's Last Stand
Narrator
2018
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Himself
2018
Brakes
Peter
2017
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Narrator (voice)
2017
Nero's Sunken City
Narrator (English Voice)
2017
B&B
Josh
2017
Wildest Europe
Narrator · (5 episodes)
2017
Perplexed Music
Man
2017
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
Narrator · (5 episodes)
2016
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Narrator (Voice)
2016
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
Narrator
2015
Absence
Man
2015
The Other Prince William
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
Narrator (voice)
2015
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Narrator (voice)
2015
Shark
Himself - Narrator · (3 episodes)
2015
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
narrator
2015
Super Powered Owls
Narrator
2015
Wild Sri Lanka
Paul McGann · (3 episodes)
2015
Wildest Middle East
Narrator · (5 episodes)
2014
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
Himself
2014
Secrets of the Castle
Narrator (Voice) · (5 episodes)
2014
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Narrator (Voice)
2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Self
2014
Wildest Indochina
Narrator (voice) · (5 episodes)
2014
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
James Craven
2014
The Musketeers
St Pierre · (1 episode)
2014
The Musketeers
Saint Pierre · (1 episode)
2014
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Narrator
2014
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
The Doctor
2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013
Brady and Hindley: Possession
Narrator (voice)
2013
Art Is...
Lulu's Dad
2013
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
Self · (11 episodes)
2013
Wildest Islands
Narrator · (10 episodes)
2012
Ripper Street
Stanley Bone · (1 episode)
2012
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012
A Mother's Son
David · (2 episodes)
2012
Tiger Island
Narrator
2012
Wildest Latin America
Self - Narrator (voice) · (5 episodes)
2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Sir Rufus Isaacs
2012
Digging The Great Escape
narrator
2011
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
The 9/11 Surfer
Narrator
2011
The Day John Lennon Died
Narrator
2010
Godard & Others
Torrence
2010
Luther
Mark North · (10 episodes)
2010
Collision
Richard Reeves · (5 episodes)
2009
Moving On
Phil · (1 episode)
2009
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Vicar
2009
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2008
Fables of Forgotten Things
Clarence
2008
My Dad Was a Communist
Narrator
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Narrator
2008
Davros Connections
(archival audio)
2007
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
Himself - Narrator (voice) · (3 episodes)
2007
True Dare Kiss
Nash McKinnon · (6 episodes)
2007
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Bill Mackinnon
2007
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
Tripping Over
Jeremy · (6 episodes)
2006
If I Had You
Philip Andrews
2006
Ghosts on the Underground
Narrator
2005
The Orangutan King
Narrator
2005
Gypo
Paul
2005
Psycho
Narrator · (4 episodes)
2005
Kidnapped
Colonel MacNab
2005
Kidnapped
(3 episodes)
2005
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
Twisted Tales
(1 episode)
2005
Death of an Idealist
Narrator
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dickie Erskine · (1 episode)
2004
Lie with Me
Gerry Henson
2004
Bible Mysteries
Himself-Narrator · (9 episodes)
2004
Sea of Souls
Christopher Chambers · (1 episode)
2004
New Tricks
D.C.I. James Larson · (1 episode)
2004
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Self
2003
Listening
Man
2003
Otherworld
King Matholwch (voice)
2003
Doctor Who: Shada
The Doctor (voice)
2003
Hornblower: Duty
Lieutenant Bush
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
Lieutenant Bush
2003
The Biographer
Andrew Morton
2002
Queen of the Damned
David Talbot
2002
Blood Strangers
DC David Ingram
2002
Sweet Revenge
Patrick Vine · (2 episodes)
2001
My Kingdom
Dean
2001
Waking the Dead
ACC Tony Nicholson · (2 episodes)
2001
Hornblower: Retribution
Lt. Bush
2001
Hornblower: Mutiny
Lieutenant Bush
2001
Hotel!
Ben Carter
2001
Fish
Jonathan Vishnevski · (6 episodes)
2000
Nature Boy
Steve Witton · (4 episodes)
2000
Withnail and Us
Self
1999
Forgotten
Ben Turner · (3 episodes)
1999
The Dance of Shiva
Captain Greville
1998
Hornblower
William Bush · (4 episodes)
1998
Our Mutual Friend
Eugene Wrayburn · (4 episodes)
1998
FairyTale: A True Story
Arthur Wright
1997
Downtime
Rob
1997
Testament: The Bible in Animation
David (voice) · (1 episode)
1996
Star Trek Story
Self - Commentary (voice)
1996
Doctor Who
The Doctor
1996
Catherine the Great
Potemkin
1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Self
1996
The One That Got Away
Chris Ryan
1996
The Merchant of Venice
Bassanio
1996
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan · (4 episodes)
1995
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan
1995
The Three Musketeers
Girard / Jussac
1993
Nice Town
Joe Thompson · (3 episodes)
1992
Alien³
Golic
1992
Afraid of the Dark
Tony
1991
Paper Mask
Matthew Harris
1990
Drowning in the Shallow End
Colin
1990
The Monk
Father Lorenzo Rojas
1990
Dealers
Daniel Pascoe
1989
The Rainbow
Anton Skrebensky
1989
Streets of Yesterday
Joseph
1989
Tree of Hands
Barry
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Dr. Peter Lord · (1 episode)
1989
The Importance of Being Earnest
John Worthing
1988
Empire of the Sun
Lieutenant Price
1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
Giovanni Cariani
1987
Withnail & I
...& I
1987
The Monocled Mutineer
Percy Toplis · (4 episodes)
1986
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Mo Morris
1984
Natural World
Narrator · (5 episodes)
1983
Give us a Break
Mo Morris · (8 episodes)
1983
Gaskin
Graham Gaskin
1983
Whistling Wally
Norman
1982
Fish
(13 episodes)
1977
Play for Today
Norman · (1 episode)
1970
Horizon
Himself · (1 episode)
1964