PAUL MCGANN

Paul McGann
Paul McGann
Gender: Male
Known for: Acting
Birthday: November 14, 1959
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.

Filmography

Starring

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

Production

2016·
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
Commissioning Editor
2009·
Moving On
Director