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