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
Empire of the Sun
Lieutenant Price
Alien³
Golic
Luther
Mark North
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Withnail & I
...& I
The Three Musketeers
Girard / Jussac
Queen of the Damned
David Talbot
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
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Filmography
Acting (169)
Movies (113)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Marbles
2025as Lord Byron (voice)
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024as Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
2024as The Doctor
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023as Walsh
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023as Jaggers
The Undertaker
2023as Arthur
Talking Doctor Who
2023as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Swallow Your Dreams
2022as James
Doctor Who Am I
2022as Self
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
2022as The Doctor
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019as Self
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019as Narrator (voice)
Picasso's Last Stand
2018as Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018as Himself
Nero's Sunken City
2017as Narrator (English Voice)
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017as Narrator (voice)
Brakes
2017as Peter
Perplexed Music
2017as Man
B&B
2017as Josh
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016as Narrator (Voice)
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015as narrator
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015as Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
The Other Prince William
2015as Self - Narrator (voice)
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015as self, narrator
Super Powered Owls
2015as Narrator
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015as Narrator
Absence
2015as Man
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015as Narrator (voice)
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014as Narrator (Voice)
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014as James Craven
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014as Durian
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014as Self
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014as Himself
France: The Wild Side
2014as Narrator
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014as Narrator
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Art Is...
2013as Lulu's Dad
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013as The Doctor
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013as Self
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013as Narrator (voice)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012as Sir Rufus Isaacs
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Tiger Island
2012as Narrator
Digging The Great Escape
2011as narrator
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
The 9/11 Surfer
2011as Narrator
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011as Narrator
The Day John Lennon Died
2010as Narrator
Godard & Others
2010as Torrence
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009as Vicar
My Dad Was a Communist
2008as Narrator
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008as Clarence
The Ties That Bind Us
2008as Self - Narrator
Davros Connections
2007as (archival audio)
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007as Bill Mackinnon
If I Had You
2006as Philip Andrews
Ghosts on the Underground
2005as Narrator
Kidnapped
2005as Colonel MacNab
Gypo
2005as Paul
Death of an Idealist
2005as Narrator
The Orangutan King
2005as Narrator
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
Lie with Me
2004as Gerry Henson
Listening
2003as Man
Hornblower: Duty
2003as Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003as Lieutenant Bush
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003as Self
Doctor Who: Shada
2003as The Doctor (voice)
Otherworld
2003as King Matholwch (voice)
Queen of the Damned
2002as David Talbot
The Biographer
2002as Andrew Morton
Blood Strangers
2002as DC David Ingram
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001as Lieutenant Bush
Hotel!
2001as Ben Carter
Hornblower: Retribution
2001as Lt. Bush
My Kingdom
2001as Dean
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001as Self- Narrator
Withnail and Us
1999as Self
The Dance of Shiva
1998as Captain Greville
FairyTale: A True Story
1997as Arthur Wright
Downtime
1997as Rob
Doctor Who
1996as The Doctor
Star Trek Story
1996as Self - Commentary (voice)
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996as Self
Catherine the Great
1996as Potemkin
The Merchant of Venice
1996as Bassanio
The One That Got Away
1996as Chris Ryan
The Hanging Gale
1995as Liam Phelan
The Three Musketeers
1993as Girard / Jussac
Alien³
1992as Golic
Afraid of the Dark
1991as Tony
Paper Mask
1990as Matthew Harris
The Monk
1990as Father Lorenzo Rojas
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990as Colin
Dealers
1989as Daniel Pascoe
The Rainbow
1989as Anton Skrebensky
Streets of Yesterday
1989as Joseph
Tree of Hands
1989as Barry
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988as John Worthing
Empire of the Sun
1987as Lieutenant Price
Withnail & I
1987as ...& I
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987as Giovanni Cariani
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984as Mo Morris
Gaskin
1983as Graham Gaskin
Whistling Wally
1982as Norman
Television (56)
Bookish
2025as Mr. Kind
Anne
2022as Malcolm Thornton MP
Annika
2021as Jake Strathearn
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021as Self - Narrator
McDonald & Dodds
2020as Archie Addington
Victorian Sensations
2019as Self - Presenter
Wildest Europe
2017as Narrator
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016as Narrator
Shark
2015as Himself - Narrator
Wild Sri Lanka
2015as Paul McGann
The Musketeers
2014as St Pierre
Secrets of the Castle
2014as Narrator (Voice)
Wildest Indochina
2014as Narrator (voice)
Wildest Middle East
2014as Narrator
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013as Self
Ripper Street
2012as Stanley Bone
The Bletchley Circle
2012as John Richards
A Mother's Son
2012as David
Wildest Islands
2012as Narrator
Wildest Latin America
2012as Self - Narrator (voice)
Luther
2010as Mark North
Luther
2010as Mark North
Moving On
2009as Phil
Collision
2009as Richard Reeves
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007as Himself - Narrator (voice)
True Dare Kiss
2007as Nash McKinnon
Tripping Over
2006as Jeremy
Doctor Who
2005as The Doctor (archive footage)
Twisted Tales
2005as Phone (voice)
Kidnapped
2005 Psycho
2005as Narrator
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004as Dickie Erskine
New Tricks
2004as D.C.I. James Larson
Sea of Souls
2004as Christopher Chambers
Zero Hour
2004as Narrator (Voice)
Bible Mysteries
2004as Himself-Narrator
Waking the Dead
2001as ACC Tony Nicholson
Sweet Revenge
2001as Patrick Vine
Nature Boy
2000as Steve Witton
Fish
2000as Jonathan Vishnevski
Holby City
1999as John Gaskell
Forgotten
1999as Ben Turner
Hornblower
1998as William Bush
Our Mutual Friend
1998as Eugene Wrayburn
Jonathan Creek
1997as Hugo Dore
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996as David (voice)
The Hanging Gale
1995as Liam Phelan
Nice Town
1992as Joe Thompson
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989as Dr. Peter Lord
The Monocled Mutineer
1986as Percy Toplis
Natural World
1983as Narrator
Give us a Break
1983as Mo Morris
Fish
1977
Play for Today
1970as Norman
Horizon
1964as Himself
Doctor Who
1963as The Doctor
Crew (2)
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