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Paul McGann

Paul McGann

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

14/11/1959

Age

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 hi... Read More

Known For

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

Nero's Sunken City

Nero's Sunken City

The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away

Gypo

Gypo

Alien³

Alien³

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

Withnail & I

Withnail & I

The Rainbow

The Rainbow

Hornblower: Mutiny

Hornblower: Mutiny

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Filmography

Cast

2025

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited...

2024

Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Li...

as The Doctor

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2024

Churchill’s Forgotten War

as Narrator (voice)

2023

The Day of the Sun Dog

as Jaggers

2023

The Undertaker

as Arthur

2023

Talking Doctor Who

as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2023

Mia and the Dragon Princess

as Walsh

2022

Doctor Who Am I

as Self

2022

Swallow Your Dreams

as James

2019

The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On

as Self

2019

Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann

2019

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

as Narrator (voice)

2019

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

2018

Picasso's Last Stand

as Narrator

2018

Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land

as Himself

2017

Brakes

as Peter

2017

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

as Narrator (voice)

2017

Nero's Sunken City

as Narrator (English Voice)

2017

B&B

as Josh

2017

Perplexed Music

as Man

2016

Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

as Narrator (Voice)

2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

2015

China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

as Narrator

2015

Absence

as Man

2015

The Other Prince William

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2015

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Churchill: When Britain Said No

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the P...

as narrator

2015

Super Powered Owls

as Narrator

2014

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Stor...

as Himself

2014

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Rac...

as Narrator (Voice)

2014

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with ...

as Self

2014

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

as James Craven

2014

Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a S...

as Narrator

2013

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

as Self

2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2013

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

as The Doctor

2013

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2013

Brady and Hindley: Possession

as Narrator (voice)

2013

Art Is...

as Lulu's Dad

2012

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2012

Tiger Island

as Narrator

2012

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

as Sir Rufus Isaacs

2011

Digging The Great Escape

as narrator

2011

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

2011

The 9/11 Surfer

as Narrator

2010

The Day John Lennon Died

as Narrator

2010

Godard & Others

as Torrence

2009

Lesbian Vampire Killers

as Vicar

2008

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2008

Fables of Forgotten Things

as Clarence

2008

My Dad Was a Communist

as Narrator

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

as Narrator

2007

Davros Connections

as (archival audio)

2007

Always Crashing in the Same Car

as Bill Mackinnon

2007

World of Compulsive Hoarders

2006

If I Had You

as Philip Andrews

2005

Ghosts on the Underground

as Narrator

2005

The Orangutan King

as Narrator

2005

Gypo

as Paul

2005

Kidnapped

as Colonel MacNab

2005

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK

2005

Death of an Idealist

as Narrator

2004

Lie with Me

as Gerry Henson

2003

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

as Self

2003

Listening

as Man

2003

Otherworld

as King Matholwch (voice)

2003

Doctor Who: Shada

as The Doctor (voice)

2003

Hornblower: Duty

as Lieutenant Bush

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty

as Lieutenant Bush

2002

The Biographer

as Andrew Morton

2002

Queen of the Damned

as David Talbot

2002

Blood Strangers

as DC David Ingram

2001

My Kingdom

as Dean

2001

Hornblower: Retribution

as Lt. Bush

2001

Hornblower: Mutiny

as Lieutenant Bush

2001

Hotel!

as Ben Carter

1999

Withnail and Us

as Self

1998

The Dance of Shiva

as Captain Greville

1997

FairyTale: A True Story

as Arthur Wright

1997

Downtime

as Rob

1996

Star Trek Story

as Self - Commentary (voice)

1996

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

1996

Catherine the Great

as Potemkin

1996

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

as Self

1996

The One That Got Away

as Chris Ryan

1996

The Merchant of Venice

as Bassanio

1995

The Hanging Gale

as Liam Phelan

1993

The Three Musketeers

as Girard / Jussac

1992

Alien³

as Golic

1991

Afraid of the Dark

as Tony

1990

Paper Mask

as Matthew Harris

1990

Drowning in the Shallow End

as Colin

1990

The Monk

as Father Lorenzo Rojas

1989

Dealers

as Daniel Pascoe

1989

The Rainbow

as Anton Skrebensky

1989

Streets of Yesterday

as Joseph

1989

Tree of Hands

as Barry

1988

The Importance of Being Earnest

as John Worthing

1987

Empire of the Sun

as Lieutenant Price

1987

Cariani and the Courtesans

as Giovanni Cariani

1987

Withnail & I

as ...& I

1984

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and ...

as Mo Morris

1983

Gaskin

as Graham Gaskin

1982

Whistling Wally

as Norman