Paul McGann
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 14 November 1959 · 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.
Known for
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- 2026Triesverse: Cataclysm as The Doctor
- 2026Doctor Who: The Time War as The Doctor
- 2026Good Behaviour as Richard
- 2025The Marbles as Lord Byron (voice)
- 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2024Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show as The Doctor
- 2024Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
- 2024Churchill’s Forgotten War as Narrator (voice)
- 2023The Day of the Sun Dog as Jaggers
- 2023The Undertaker as Arthur
- 2023Talking Doctor Who as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
- 2023Mia and the Dragon Princess as Walsh
- 2022Doctor Who Am I as Self
- 2022Swallow Your Dreams as James
- 2020The Big Night In as Self
- 2019The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
- 2019The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On as Self
- 2019Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann
- 2019Swans: Mystery of the Missing as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2018Picasso's Last Stand as Narrator
- 2018Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land as Himself
- 2017Brakes as Peter
- 2017Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence as Narrator (voice)
- 2017Nero's Sunken City as Narrator (English Voice)
- 2017B&B as Josh
- 2017Perplexed Music as Man
- 2016Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack as Narrator (Voice)
- 2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
- 2015Ripley by Job Willins as Golic
- 2015China - Treasures of the Jade Empire as Narrator
- 2015Absence as Man
- 2015The Other Prince William as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2015Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden as Narrator (voice)
- 2015Churchill: When Britain Said No as Narrator (voice)
- 2015Shark: Beneath the Surface as self, narrator
- 2015Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace as narrator
- 2015Super Powered Owls as Narrator
- 2014The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story as Himself
- 2014The Minister of Chance: Prologue as Durian
- 2014Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race as Narrator (Voice)
- 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison as Self
- 2014France: The Wild Side as Narrator
- 2014Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
- 2014A Little Place Off the Edgware Road as James Craven
- 2014Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting as Narrator
- 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
- 2013The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as Self
- 2013Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor as The Doctor
- 2013JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2013Brady and Hindley: Possession as Narrator (voice)
- 2013Art Is... as Lulu's Dad
- 2012Britain's Greatest Codebreaker as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2012Tiger Island as Narrator
- 2012SOS: The Titanic Inquiry as Sir Rufus Isaacs
- 2011Digging The Great Escape as narrator
- 2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
- 2011Gadaffi and the IRA as Narrator
- 2011The 9/11 Surfer as Narrator
- 2010The Day John Lennon Died as Narrator
- 2010Godard & Others as Torrence
- 2009Lesbian Vampire Killers as Vicar
- 2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
- 2008Fables of Forgotten Things as Clarence
- 2008My Dad Was a Communist as Narrator
- 2008Getting a Head as Self (Narrator)
- 2008The Ties That Bind Us as Self - Narrator
- 2007Davros Connections as (archival audio)
- 2007Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover as Narrator
- 2007Always Crashing in the Same Car as Bill Mackinnon
- 2007World of Compulsive Hoarders
- 2006If I Had You as Philip Andrews
- 2005Ghosts on the Underground as Narrator
- 2005The Orangutan King as Narrator
- 2005Gypo as Paul
- 2005Kidnapped as Colonel MacNab
- 2005Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
- 2005Death of an Idealist as Narrator
- 2004Lie with Me as Gerry Henson
- 2003Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' as Self
- 2003Listening as Man
- 2003Otherworld as King Matholwch (voice)
- 2003Doctor Who: Shada as The Doctor (voice)
- 2003Hornblower: Duty as Lieutenant Bush
- 2003Hornblower: Loyalty as Lieutenant Bush
- 2002The Biographer as Andrew Morton
- 2002Queen of the Damned as David Talbot
- 2002Blood Strangers as DC David Ingram
- 2001My Kingdom as Dean
- 2001Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story as Self- Narrator
- 2001Hornblower: Retribution as Lt. Bush
- 2001Hornblower: Mutiny as Lieutenant Bush
- 2001Hotel! as Ben Carter
- 1999Withnail and Us as Self
- 1998The Dance of Shiva as Captain Greville
- 1997FairyTale: A True Story as Arthur Wright
- 1997Downtime as Rob
- 1996Star Trek Story as Self - Commentary (voice)
- 1996Doctor Who as The Doctor
- 1996Catherine the Great as Potemkin
- 1996Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self
- 1996The One That Got Away as Chris Ryan
- 1996The Merchant of Venice as Bassanio
- 1995The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan
- 1993The Three Musketeers as Girard / Jussac
- 1992Alien³ as Golic
- 1991Afraid of the Dark as Tony
- 1990Paper Mask as Matthew Harris
- 1990Drowning in the Shallow End as Colin
- 1990The Monk as Father Lorenzo Rojas
- 1989Dealers as Daniel Pascoe
- 1989The Rainbow as Anton Skrebensky
- 1989Streets of Yesterday as Joseph
- 1989Tree of Hands as Barry
- 1988The Importance of Being Earnest as John Worthing
- 1987Empire of the Sun as Lieutenant Price
- 1987Cariani and the Courtesans as Giovanni Cariani
- 1987Withnail & I as ...& I
- 1984Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle as Mo Morris
- 1983Gaskin as Graham Gaskin
- 1982Whistling Wally as Norman