Paul McGann
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.
Acted in
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
2024
as The Doctor
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023
as Jaggers
The Undertaker
2023
as Arthur
Talking Doctor Who
2023
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
as Walsh
Doctor Who Am I
2022
as Self
Swallow Your Dreams
2022
as James
Anne
2022
as Malcolm Thornton MP
Annika
2021
as Jake Strathearn
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
as Self - Narrator
McDonald & Dodds
2020
as Archie Addington
Victorian Sensations
2019
as Self - Presenter
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
as Self
Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann
2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
as Narrator (voice)
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
Picasso's Last Stand
2018
as Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018
as Himself
Brakes
2017
as Peter
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City
2017
as Narrator (English Voice)
B&B
2017
as Josh
Wildest Europe
2017
as Narrator
Perplexed Music
2017
as Man
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016
as Narrator
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016
as Narrator (Voice)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015
as Narrator
Absence
2015
as Man
The Other Prince William
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
as Narrator
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Shark
2015
as Himself - Narrator
Super Powered Owls
2015
as Narrator
Wild Sri Lanka
2015
as Paul McGann
Wildest Middle East
2014
as Narrator
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014
as Himself
Secrets of the Castle
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
as Self
Wildest Indochina
2014
as Narrator (voice)
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014
as James Craven
The Musketeers
2014
as St Pierre
The Musketeers
2014
as Saint Pierre
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014
as Narrator
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as Self
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Art Is...
2013
as Lulu's Dad
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
as Self
Wildest Islands
2012
as Narrator
Ripper Street
2012
as Stanley Bone
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
A Mother's Son
2012
as David
Tiger Island
2012
as Narrator
Wildest Latin America
2012
as Self - Narrator (voice)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
Digging The Great Escape
2011
as narrator
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
The 9/11 Surfer
2011
as Narrator
The Day John Lennon Died
2010
as Narrator
Godard & Others
2010
as Torrence
Luther
2010
as Mark North
Collision
2009
as Richard Reeves
Moving On
2009
as Phil
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009
as Vicar
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008
as Clarence
My Dad Was a Communist
2008
as Narrator
Davros Connections
2007
as (archival audio)
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
True Dare Kiss
2007
as Nash McKinnon
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007
as Bill Mackinnon
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
Tripping Over
2006
as Jeremy
If I Had You
2006
as Philip Andrews
Ghosts on the Underground
2005
as Narrator
The Orangutan King
2005
as Narrator
Gypo
2005
as Paul
Psycho
2005
as Narrator
Doctor Who
2005
as The Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who
2005
as The Doctor
Kidnapped
2005
as Colonel MacNab
Kidnapped
2005
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
Twisted Tales
2005
Death of an Idealist
2005
as Narrator
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Dickie Erskine
Lie with Me
2004
as Gerry Henson
Bible Mysteries
2004
as Himself-Narrator
Sea of Souls
2004
as Christopher Chambers
New Tricks
2004
as D.C.I. James Larson
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
as Self
Listening
2003
as Man
Otherworld
2003
as King Matholwch (voice)
Doctor Who: Shada
2003
as The Doctor (voice)
Hornblower: Duty
2003
as Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
as Lieutenant Bush
The Biographer
2002
as Andrew Morton
Queen of the Damned
2002
as David Talbot
Blood Strangers
2002
as DC David Ingram
Sweet Revenge
2001
as Patrick Vine
My Kingdom
2001
as Dean
Waking the Dead
2001
as ACC Tony Nicholson
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
as Lt. Bush
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
as Lieutenant Bush
Hotel!
2001
as Ben Carter
Fish
2000
as Jonathan Vishnevski
Nature Boy
2000
as Steve Witton
Withnail and Us
1999
as Self
Forgotten
1999
as Ben Turner
The Dance of Shiva
1998
as Captain Greville
Hornblower
1998
as William Bush
Our Mutual Friend
1998
as Eugene Wrayburn
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Arthur Wright
Downtime
1997
as Rob
Jonathan Creek
1997
as Hugo Dore
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as David (voice)
Star Trek Story
1996
as Self - Commentary (voice)
Doctor Who
1996
as The Doctor
Catherine the Great
1996
as Potemkin
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
as Self
The One That Got Away
1996
as Chris Ryan
The Merchant of Venice
1996
as Bassanio
The Hanging Gale
1995
as Liam Phelan
The Hanging Gale
1995
as Liam Phelan
The Three Musketeers
1993
as Girard / Jussac
Nice Town
1992
as Joe Thompson
Alien³
1992
as Golic
Afraid of the Dark
1991
as Tony
Paper Mask
1990
as Matthew Harris
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
as Colin
The Monk
1990
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
Dealers
1989
as Daniel Pascoe
The Rainbow
1989
as Anton Skrebensky
Streets of Yesterday
1989
as Joseph
Tree of Hands
1989
as Barry
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Dr. Peter Lord
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988
as John Worthing
Empire of the Sun
1987
as Lieutenant Price
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
as Giovanni Cariani
Withnail & I
1987
as ...& I
The Monocled Mutineer
1986
as Percy Toplis
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
as Mo Morris
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
Give us a Break
1983
as Mo Morris
Gaskin
1983
as Graham Gaskin
Whistling Wally
1982
as Norman
Fish
1977
Play for Today
1970
as Norman
Horizon
1964
as Himself
Doctor Who
1963
as The Doctor