Paul McGann

Known for: Acting

Born: 1959-11-14 (age 66)

From: 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 (173)

MOVIE
Triesverse: Cataclysm
2026
as The Doctor
MOVIE
Good Behaviour
2026
as Richard
MOVIE
The Marbles
2025
as Lord Byron (voice)
TV★ 6.0
Bookish
2025
as Mr. Kind
MOVIE★ 5.0
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.2
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023
as Jaggers
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Undertaker
2023
as Arthur
MOVIE★ 5.0
Talking Doctor Who
2023
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.4
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
as Walsh
MOVIE★ 4.8
Doctor Who Am I
2022
as Self
MOVIE★ 10.0
Swallow Your Dreams
2022
as James
TV★ 7.1
Anne
2022
as Malcolm Thornton MP
TV★ 6.9
Annika
2021
as Jake Strathearn
TV★ 3.9
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
as Self - Narrator
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Big Night In
2020
as Self
TV★ 7.6
McDonald & Dodds
2020
as Archie Addington
MOVIE★ 2.0
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
TV
Victorian Sensations
2019
as Self - Presenter
MOVIE★ 7.8
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
as Self
MOVIE★ 10.0
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE
Picasso's Last Stand
2018
as Narrator
MOVIE
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018
as Himself
MOVIE
Perplexed Music
2017
as Man
MOVIE★ 5.6
Brakes
2017
as Peter
MOVIE★ 8.0
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.0
Nero's Sunken City
2017
as Narrator (English Voice)
MOVIE★ 6.3
B&B
2017
as Josh
TV
Wildest Europe
2017
as Narrator
TV★ 8.0
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016
as Narrator
MOVIE
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016
as Narrator (Voice)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 8.7
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.0
Absence
2015
as Man
MOVIE
The Other Prince William
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 9.0
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015
as self, narrator
TV★ 8.2
Shark
2015
as Himself - Narrator
MOVIE★ 10.0
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015
as narrator
MOVIE
Super Powered Owls
2015
as Narrator
TV★ 7.8
Wild Sri Lanka
2015
as Paul McGann
TV★ 9.0
Wildest Middle East
2014
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014
as Himself
TV★ 9.4
Secrets of the Castle
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
MOVIE
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014
as Durian
MOVIE★ 7.4
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
MOVIE
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
as Self
TV★ 8.6
Wildest Indochina
2014
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE
France: The Wild Side
2014
as Narrator
MOVIE
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
MOVIE
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014
as James Craven
TV★ 7.1
The Musketeers
2014
as St Pierre
MOVIE★ 8.5
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.8
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as Self
MOVIE★ 8.2
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 7.3
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.5
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE
Art Is...
2013
as Lulu's Dad
TV★ 6.4
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
as Self
TV★ 8.1
Wildest Islands
2012
as Narrator
TV★ 7.4
Ripper Street
2012
as Stanley Bone
MOVIE★ 5.9
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
TV★ 7.6
The Bletchley Circle
2012
as John Richards
TV★ 6.8
A Mother's Son
2012
as David
MOVIE
Tiger Island
2012
as Narrator
TV★ 8.0
Wildest Latin America
2012
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.4
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
MOVIE
Digging The Great Escape
2011
as narrator
MOVIE★ 8.0
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
MOVIE
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 6.0
The 9/11 Surfer
2011
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Day John Lennon Died
2010
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 5.2
Godard & Others
2010
as Torrence
TV★ 7.9
Luther
2010
as Mark North
TV★ 7.0
Collision
2009
as Richard Reeves
TV★ 7.3
Moving On
2009
as Phil
MOVIE★ 5.2
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009
as Vicar
MOVIE★ 7.4
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 4.0
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008
as Clarence
MOVIE
My Dad Was a Communist
2008
as Narrator
TV
The True Story
2008
as Narrator
MOVIE
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
as Self - Narrator
MOVIE
Davros Connections
2007
as (archival audio)
TV★ 7.0
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.2
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007
as Narrator
TV★ 7.0
True Dare Kiss
2007
as Nash McKinnon
MOVIE★ 6.7
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007
as Bill Mackinnon
MOVIE
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
TV
Tripping Over
2006
as Jeremy
MOVIE★ 7.0
If I Had You
2006
as Philip Andrews
MOVIE★ 7.0
Ghosts on the Underground
2005
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Orangutan King
2005
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 5.3
Gypo
2005
as Paul
TV
Psycho
2005
as Narrator
MOVIE
Kidnapped
2005
as Colonel MacNab
TV★ 6.8
Kidnapped
2005
MOVIE★ 10.0
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
TV★ 7.7
Twisted Tales
2005
as Phone (voice)
MOVIE
Death of an Idealist
2005
as Narrator
TV★ 7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Dickie Erskine
MOVIE★ 5.7
Lie with Me
2004
as Gerry Henson
TV
Lie with Me
2004
as Gerry Henson
TV★ 7.4
Zero Hour
2004
as Narrator (Voice)
TV★ 7.5
Bible Mysteries
2004
as Himself-Narrator
TV★ 8.0
Sea of Souls
2004
as Christopher Chambers
TV★ 7.3
New Tricks
2004
as D.C.I. James Larson
MOVIE★ 7.8
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.5
Listening
2003
as Man
MOVIE★ 5.8
Otherworld
2003
as King Matholwch (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.3
Doctor Who: Shada
2003
as The Doctor (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.3
Hornblower: Duty
2003
as Lieutenant Bush
MOVIE★ 7.2
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
as Lieutenant Bush
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Biographer
2002
as Andrew Morton
MOVIE★ 6.1
Queen of the Damned
2002
as David Talbot
MOVIE★ 5.8
Blood Strangers
2002
as DC David Ingram
TV
Blood Strangers
2002
as DC David Ingram
TV★ 8.0
Sweet Revenge
2001
as Patrick Vine
MOVIE★ 5.5
My Kingdom
2001
as Dean
TV★ 7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
as ACC Tony Nicholson
MOVIE★ 6.0
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001
as Self- Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.3
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
as Lt. Bush
MOVIE★ 7.4
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
as Lieutenant Bush
MOVIE★ 5.2
Hotel!
2001
as Ben Carter
TV
Fish
2000
as Jonathan Vishnevski
TV★ 7.3
Nature Boy
2000
as Steve Witton
MOVIE★ 6.4
Withnail and Us
1999
as Self
TV★ 7.6
Forgotten
1999
as Ben Turner
TV★ 5.8
Holby City
1999
as John Gaskell
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Dance of Shiva
1998
as Captain Greville
TV★ 7.8
Hornblower
1998
as William Bush
TV★ 7.8
Our Mutual Friend
1998
as Eugene Wrayburn
MOVIE★ 6.4
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Arthur Wright
MOVIE★ 7.0
Downtime
1997
as Rob
TV★ 7.0
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as David (voice)
MOVIE★ 1.2
Star Trek Story
1996
as Self - Commentary (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.2
Doctor Who
1996
as The Doctor
MOVIE★ 5.6
Catherine the Great
1996
as Potemkin
MOVIE★ 7.5
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.2
The One That Got Away
1996
as Chris Ryan
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Merchant of Venice
1996
as Bassanio
TV★ 5.8
The Hanging Gale
1995
as Liam Phelan
MOVIE
The Hanging Gale
1995
as Liam Phelan
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Three Musketeers
1993
as Girard / Jussac
TV★ 6.7
Nice Town
1992
as Joe Thompson
MOVIE★ 6.4
Alien³
1992
as Golic
MOVIE★ 5.6
Afraid of the Dark
1991
as Tony
MOVIE★ 5.7
Paper Mask
1990
as Matthew Harris
MOVIE★ 7.0
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
as Colin
MOVIE★ 3.2
The Monk
1990
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
MOVIE★ 5.6
Dealers
1989
as Daniel Pascoe
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Rainbow
1989
as Anton Skrebensky
MOVIE★ 7.5
Streets of Yesterday
1989
as Joseph
MOVIE★ 8.0
Tree of Hands
1989
as Barry
TV★ 8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Dr. Peter Lord
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988
as John Worthing
MOVIE★ 7.5
Empire of the Sun
1987
as Lieutenant Price
MOVIE★ 7.0
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
as Giovanni Cariani
MOVIE★ 7.2
Withnail & I
1987
as ...& I
TV★ 7.7
The Monocled Mutineer
1986
as Percy Toplis
TV★ 7.0
Sunday Premiere
1986
as Percy Toplis
TV★ 6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
as Giovanni Cariani
TV★ 7.1
Screen Two
1985
as Colin
MOVIE
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
as Mo Morris
TV★ 7.4
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
TV★ 7.3
Give us a Break
1983
as Mo Morris
MOVIE★ 5.0
Gaskin
1983
as Graham Gaskin
MOVIE
Whistling Wally
1982
as Norman
TV★ 6.6
Fish
1977
TV★ 6.6
Play for Today
1970
as Norman
TV★ 7.4
Horizon
1964
as Himself