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
- Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Marbles as Lord Byron (voice)
2024
- 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
- 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
- Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land as Himself
- Picasso's Last Stand as Narrator
2017
- Wildest Europe as Narrator
- B&B as Josh
- Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence as Narrator (voice)
- Nero's Sunken City as Narrator (English Voice)
- Brakes as Peter
- Perplexed Music as Man
2016
- China: Between Clouds and Dreams ... (Commissioning Editor)
- Wildest Islands of Indonesia as Narrator
- Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack as Narrator (Voice)
2015
- Shark as Himself - Narrator
- Wild Sri Lanka as Paul McGann
- Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
- Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace as narrator
- The Other Prince William as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Churchill: When Britain Said No as Narrator (voice)
- Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden as Narrator (voice)
- Shark: Beneath the Surface as self, narrator
- China - Treasures of the Jade Empire as Narrator
- Super Powered Owls as Narrator
- Absence as Man
2014
- The Musketeers as St Pierre
- Secrets of the Castle as Narrator (Voice)
- Wildest Indochina as Narrator (voice)
- Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison as Self
- The Minister of Chance: Prologue as Durian
- Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
- The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story as Himself
- A Little Place Off the Edgware Road as James Craven
- Wildest Middle East as Narrator
- Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting as Narrator
- France: The Wild Side as Narrator
- Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race as Narrator (Voice)
2013
- Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
- Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited as Self
- The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as Self
- Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor as The Doctor
- 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)
- Britain's Greatest Codebreaker as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- SOS: The Titanic Inquiry as Sir Rufus Isaacs
- Tiger Island as Narrator
2011
- Digging The Great Escape as narrator
- The 9/11 Surfer as Narrator
- Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
- Gadaffi and the IRA as Narrator
2010
- Luther as Mark North
- The Day John Lennon Died as Narrator
- Godard & Others as Torrence
2009
- Moving On as Phil
- Collision as Richard Reeves
- Lesbian Vampire Killers as Vicar
2008
- The True Story as Narrator
- The Ties That Bind Us as Self - Narrator
- Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
- 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
- Always Crashing in the Same Car as Bill Mackinnon
- Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover as Narrator
- Davros Connections as (archival audio)
- World of Compulsive Hoarders
2006
- Tripping Over as Jeremy
- If I Had You as Philip Andrews
2005
- Twisted Tales as Phone (voice)
- Kidnapped
- Psycho as Narrator
- Death of an Idealist as Narrator
- Ghosts on the Underground as Narrator
- Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
- The Orangutan King as Narrator
- Gypo as Paul
2004
- New Tricks as D.C.I. James Larson
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Dickie Erskine
- Sea of Souls as Christopher Chambers
- Zero Hour as Narrator (Voice)
- Bible Mysteries as Himself-Narrator
- Lie with Me as Gerry Henson
2003
- Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' as Self
- Listening as Man
- Hornblower: Loyalty as Lieutenant Bush
- Doctor Who: Shada as The Doctor (voice)
- Hornblower: Duty as Lieutenant Bush
- Otherworld as King Matholwch (voice)
2002
- Queen of the Damned as David Talbot
- Blood Strangers as DC David Ingram
- The Biographer as Andrew Morton
2001
- Waking the Dead as ACC Tony Nicholson
- Sweet Revenge as Patrick Vine
- Hornblower: Mutiny as Lieutenant Bush
- Hornblower: Retribution as Lt. Bush
- Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story as Self- Narrator
- My Kingdom as Dean
- Hotel! as Ben Carter
- Real Crime
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
- Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self
- Star Trek Story as Self - Commentary (voice)
- The One That Got Away as Chris Ryan
- The Merchant of Venice as Bassanio
1995
- The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan
- The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan
1993
- The Three Musketeers as Girard / Jussac
1992
- Alien³ as Golic
- Nice Town as Joe Thompson
- 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
- 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
- Empire of the Sun as Lieutenant Price
- Withnail & I as ...& I
- Cariani and the Courtesans as Giovanni Cariani
1986
- ScreenPlay as Giovanni Cariani
- The Monocled Mutineer as Percy Toplis
- Sunday Premiere 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