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