Paul McGann
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Nov 14, 1959 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
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.
Known For
| 2026 | Good BehaviourRichard | |
| 2025 | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2025 | The MarblesLord Byron (voice) | |
| 2025 | BookishMr. Kind | |
| 2024 | Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live ShowThe Doctor | |
| 2024 | Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (8) (archive footage) | |
| 2024 | Churchill’s Forgotten WarNarrator (voice) | |
| 2023 | Mia and the Dragon PrincessWalsh | |
| 2023 | The Day of the Sun DogJaggers | |
| 2023 | The UndertakerArthur | |
| 2023 | Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | |
| 2022 | Swallow Your DreamsJames | |
| 2022 | Doctor Who Am ISelf | |
| 2022 | Doctor Who: The Power of the DoctorThe Doctor | |
| 2022 | AnneMalcolm Thornton MP | |
| 2021 | AnnikaJake Strathearn | |
| 2021 | Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the WorldSelf - Narrator | |
| 2020 | The Big Night InSelf | |
| 2020 | McDonald & DoddsArchie Addington | |
| 2019 | The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years | |
| 2019 | Swans: Mystery of the MissingNarrator (voice) | |
| 2019 | The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes OnSelf | |
| 2019 | Victorian SensationsSelf - Presenter | |
| 2018 | Picasso's Last StandNarrator | |
| 2018 | Oi For England's Green and Pleasant LandHimself | |
| 2017 | Nero's Sunken CityNarrator (English Voice) | |
| 2017 | BrakesPeter | |
| 2017 | B&BJosh | |
| 2017 | Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New EvidenceNarrator (voice) | |
| 2017 | Perplexed MusicMan | |
| 2017 | Wildest EuropeNarrator | |
| 2016 | Unfinished: The Making of Massive AttackNarrator (Voice) | |
| 2016 | Wildest Islands of IndonesiaNarrator | |
| 2015 | Super Powered OwlsNarrator | |
| 2015 | AbsenceMan | |
| 2015 | The Other Prince WilliamSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2015 | Finding Babylon's Hanging GardenNarrator (voice) | |
| 2015 | China - Treasures of the Jade EmpireNarrator | |
| 2015 | Churchill: When Britain Said NoNarrator (voice) | |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited) | |
| 2015 | Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peacenarrator | |
| 2015 | Shark: Beneath the Surfaceself, narrator | |
| 2015 | SharkHimself - Narrator | |
| 2015 | Wild Sri LankaPaul McGann | |
| 2014 | Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life PaintingNarrator | |
| 2014 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf | |
| 2014 | A Little Place Off the Edgware RoadJames Craven | |
| 2014 | Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space RaceNarrator (Voice) | |
| 2014 | The Great Wall of China: The Hidden StoryHimself | |
| 2014 | The Minister of Chance: PrologueDurian | |
| 2014 | Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius | |
| 2014 | France: The Wild SideNarrator | |
| 2014 | Wildest Middle EastNarrator | |
| 2014 | Secrets of the CastleNarrator (Voice) | |
| 2014 | The MusketeersSt Pierre | |
| 2014 | The MusketeersSaint Pierre | |
| 2014 | Wildest IndochinaNarrator (voice) | |
| 2013 | Brady and Hindley: PossessionNarrator (voice) | |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (8) (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Night of the DoctorThe Doctor | |
| 2013 | JFK's Secret Killer: The EvidenceHimself - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2013 | Art Is...Lulu's Dad | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf | |
| 2012 | Tiger IslandNarrator | |
| 2012 | Britain's Greatest CodebreakerHimself - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2012 | SOS: The Titanic InquirySir Rufus Isaacs | |
| 2012 | Wildest Latin AmericaSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2012 | Wildest IslandsNarrator | |
| 2012 | A Mother's SonDavid | |
| 2012 | Ripper StreetStanley Bone | |
| 2012 | The Bletchley CircleJohn Richards | |
| 2011 | The 9/11 SurferNarrator | |
| 2011 | Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time | |
| 2011 | Digging The Great Escapenarrator | |
| 2011 | Gadaffi and the IRANarrator | |
| 2010 | Godard & OthersTorrence | |
| 2010 | The Day John Lennon DiedNarrator | |
| 2010 | LutherMark North | |
| 2009 | Lesbian Vampire KillersVicar | |
| 2009 | CollisionRichard Reeves | |
| 2009 | Moving OnPhil | |
| 2008 | My Dad Was a CommunistNarrator | |
| 2008 | Fables of Forgotten ThingsClarence | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (8) (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | The Ties That Bind UsSelf - Narrator | |
| 2007 | Always Crashing in the Same CarBill Mackinnon | |
| 2007 | World of Compulsive Hoarders | |
| 2007 | Davros Connections(archival audio) | |
| 2007 | True Dare KissNash McKinnon | |
| 2007 | The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the RestHimself - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2006 | If I Had YouPhilip Andrews | |
| 2006 | Tripping OverJeremy | |
| 2005 | GypoPaul | |
| 2005 | The Orangutan KingNarrator | |
| 2005 | Death of an IdealistNarrator | |
| 2005 | Daphne Ashbrook in the UK | |
| 2005 | Ghosts on the UndergroundNarrator | |
| 2005 | KidnappedColonel MacNab | |
| 2005 | Kidnapped | |
| 2005 | PsychoNarrator | |
| 2005 | Twisted TalesPhone (voice) | |
| 2004 | Lie with MeGerry Henson | |
| 2004 | Sea of SoulsChristopher Chambers | |
| 2004 | New TricksD.C.I. James Larson | |
| 2004 | Bible MysteriesHimself-Narrator | |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's MarpleDickie Erskine | |
| 2004 | Zero HourNarrator (Voice) | |
| 2003 | Hornblower: DutyLieutenant Bush | |
| 2003 | Hornblower: LoyaltyLieutenant Bush | |
| 2003 | OtherworldKing Matholwch (voice) | |
| 2003 | Doctor Who: ShadaThe Doctor (voice) | |
| 2003 | ListeningMan | |
| 2003 | Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'Self | |
| 2003 | Sad CypressDr. Peter Lord | |
| 2002 | Queen of the DamnedDavid Talbot | |
| 2002 | Blood StrangersDC David Ingram | |
| 2002 | The BiographerAndrew Morton | |
| 2001 | Hornblower: MutinyLieutenant Bush | |
| 2001 | My KingdomDean | |
| 2001 | Hornblower: RetributionLt. Bush | |
| 2001 | Hotel!Ben Carter | |
| 2001 | Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins StorySelf- Narrator | |
| 2001 | Sweet RevengePatrick Vine | |
| 2001 | Waking the DeadACC Tony Nicholson | |
| 2000 | FishJonathan Vishnevski | |
| 2000 | Nature BoySteve Witton | |
| 1999 | Withnail and UsSelf | |
| 1999 | ForgottenBen Turner | |
| 1999 | Holby CityJohn Gaskell | |
| 1998 | The Dance of ShivaCaptain Greville | |
| 1998 | HornblowerWilliam Bush | |
| 1998 | Our Mutual FriendEugene Wrayburn | |
| 1997 | DowntimeRob | |
| 1997 | FairyTale: A True StoryArthur Wright | |
| 1996 | The One That Got AwayChris Ryan | |
| 1996 | Doctor WhoThe Doctor | |
| 1996 | Catherine the GreatPotemkin | |
| 1996 | Star Trek StorySelf - Commentary (voice) | |
| 1996 | The Merchant of VeniceBassanio | |
| 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video DiarySelf | |
| 1996 | Testament: The Bible in AnimationDavid (voice) | |
| 1995 | The Hanging GaleLiam Phelan | |
| 1995 | The Hanging GaleLiam Phelan | |
| 1993 | The Three MusketeersGirard / Jussac | |
| 1992 | Alien³Golic | |
| 1992 | Nice TownJoe Thompson | |
| 1991 | Afraid of the DarkTony | |
| 1990 | Paper MaskMatthew Harris | |
| 1990 | Drowning in the Shallow EndColin | |
| 1990 | The MonkFather Lorenzo Rojas | |
| 1989 | The RainbowAnton Skrebensky | |
| 1989 | DealersDaniel Pascoe | |
| 1989 | Streets of YesterdayJoseph | |
| 1989 | Tree of HandsBarry | |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's PoirotDr. Peter Lord | |
| 1988 | The Importance of Being EarnestJohn Worthing | |
| 1987 | Withnail & I...& I | |
| 1987 | Cariani and the CourtesansGiovanni Cariani | |
| 1987 | Empire of the SunLieutenant Price | |
| 1986 | The Monocled MutineerPercy Toplis | |
| 1984 | Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and MuscleMo Morris | |
| 1983 | GaskinGraham Gaskin | |
| 1983 | Natural WorldNarrator | |
| 1983 | Give us a BreakMo Morris | |
| 1982 | Whistling WallyNorman | |
| 1977 | Fish | |
| 1970 | Play for TodayNorman | |
| 1964 | HorizonHimself |
| 2009 | Moving OnDirector |
| 2016 | China: Between Clouds and DreamsCommissioning Editor |