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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
The Marbles
Character:Lord Byron (voice)
Release Date:07/11/2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Character:The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:31/05/2025
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
Character:The Doctor
Release Date:31/12/2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
Character:The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Release Date:24/12/2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:04/05/2024
The Day of the Sun Dog
Character:Jaggers
Release Date:26/11/2023
The Undertaker
Character:Arthur
Release Date:03/11/2023
Talking Doctor Who
Character:Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Release Date:01/11/2023
Mia and the Dragon Princess
Character:Walsh
Release Date:21/04/2023
Doctor Who Am I
Character:Self
Release Date:27/10/2022
Swallow Your Dreams
Character:James
Release Date:12/09/2022
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
Character:
Release Date:02/09/2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Character:Self
Release Date:24/04/2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/03/2019
Picasso's Last Stand
Character:Narrator
Release Date:24/03/2018
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/01/2018
Brakes
Character:Peter
Release Date:24/11/2017
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:24/09/2017
Nero's Sunken City
Character:Narrator (English Voice)
Release Date:16/04/2017
B&B
Character:Josh
Release Date:13/04/2017
Perplexed Music
Character:Man
Release Date:01/01/2017
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Character:Narrator (Voice)
Release Date:05/09/2016
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Character:The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Release Date:25/12/2015
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
Character:Narrator
Release Date:18/10/2015
Absence
Character:Man
Release Date:16/10/2015
The Other Prince William
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:27/08/2015
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:12/07/2015
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:02/06/2015
Shark: Beneath the Surface
Character:self, narrator
Release Date:21/05/2015
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Character:narrator
Release Date:01/05/2015
Super Powered Owls
Character:Narrator
Release Date:03/03/2015
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
Character:Himself
Release Date:30/11/2014
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
Character:Durian
Release Date:17/10/2014
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Character:Narrator (Voice)
Release Date:13/10/2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Character:Self
Release Date:01/08/2014
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
Character:
Release Date:01/04/2014
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
Character:James Craven
Release Date:03/03/2014
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Character:Narrator
Release Date:05/01/2014
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Character:Self
Release Date:23/11/2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Character:The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Release Date:23/11/2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
Character:The Doctor
Release Date:14/11/2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Character:Himself - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:13/11/2013
Brady and Hindley: Possession
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:11/07/2013
Art Is...
Character:Lulu's Dad
Release Date:01/04/2013
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Character:Himself - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:17/10/2012
Tiger Island
Character:Narrator
Release Date:26/07/2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Character:Sir Rufus Isaacs
Release Date:16/04/2012
Digging The Great Escape
Character:narrator
Release Date:28/11/2011
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Character:
Release Date:31/10/2011
Gadaffi and the IRA
Character:Narrator
Release Date:26/09/2011
The 9/11 Surfer
Character:Narrator
Release Date:10/09/2011
The Day John Lennon Died
Character:Narrator
Release Date:06/12/2010
Godard & Others
Character:Torrence
Release Date:01/08/2010
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Character:Vicar
Release Date:16/03/2009
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Character:The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Release Date:25/12/2008
Fables of Forgotten Things
Character:Clarence
Release Date:01/09/2008
My Dad Was a Communist
Character:Narrator
Release Date:23/08/2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Character:Self - Narrator
Release Date:03/03/2008
Davros Connections
Character:(archival audio)
Release Date:26/11/2007
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Character:Bill Mackinnon
Release Date:03/06/2007
World of Compulsive Hoarders
Character:
Release Date:02/05/2007
If I Had You
Character:Philip Andrews
Release Date:01/05/2006
Ghosts on the Underground
Character:Narrator
Release Date:31/10/2005
The Orangutan King
Character:Narrator
Release Date:19/10/2005
Gypo
Character:Paul
Release Date:24/08/2005
Kidnapped
Character:Colonel MacNab
Release Date:27/02/2005
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
Character:
Release Date:01/02/2005
Death of an Idealist
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/2005
Lie with Me
Character:Gerry Henson
Release Date:15/11/2004
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Character:Self
Release Date:02/12/2003
Listening
Character:Man
Release Date:03/10/2003
Otherworld
Character:King Matholwch (voice)
Release Date:26/06/2003
Doctor Who: Shada
Character:The Doctor (voice)
Release Date:02/05/2003
Hornblower: Duty
Character:Lieutenant Bush
Release Date:06/01/2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
Character:Lieutenant Bush
Release Date:05/01/2003
The Biographer
Character:Andrew Morton
Release Date:01/09/2002
Queen of the Damned
Character:David Talbot
Release Date:10/02/2002
Blood Strangers
Character:DC David Ingram
Release Date:03/02/2002
My Kingdom
Character:Dean
Release Date:10/09/2001
Hornblower: Retribution
Character:Lt. Bush
Release Date:15/04/2001
Hornblower: Mutiny
Character:Lieutenant Bush
Release Date:08/04/2001
Hotel!
Character:Ben Carter
Release Date:17/02/2001
Withnail and Us
Character:Self
Release Date:04/08/1999
The Dance of Shiva
Character:Captain Greville
Release Date:18/12/1998
FairyTale: A True Story
Character:Arthur Wright
Release Date:24/10/1997
Downtime
Character:Rob
Release Date:21/10/1997
Star Trek Story
Character:Self - Commentary (voice)
Release Date:26/08/1996
Doctor Who
Character:The Doctor
Release Date:12/05/1996
Catherine the Great
Character:Potemkin
Release Date:28/04/1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Character:Self
Release Date:01/04/1996
The One That Got Away
Character:Chris Ryan
Release Date:18/02/1996
The Merchant of Venice
Character:Bassanio
Release Date:01/01/1996
The Hanging Gale
Character:Liam Phelan
Release Date:01/01/1995
The Three Musketeers
Character:Girard / Jussac
Release Date:11/11/1993
Alien³
Character:Golic
Release Date:22/05/1992
Afraid of the Dark
Character:Tony
Release Date:10/10/1991
Paper Mask
Character:Matthew Harris
Release Date:14/09/1990
Drowning in the Shallow End
Character:Colin
Release Date:28/01/1990
The Monk
Character:Father Lorenzo Rojas
Release Date:17/01/1990
Dealers
Character:Daniel Pascoe
Release Date:03/11/1989
The Rainbow
Character:Anton Skrebensky
Release Date:05/05/1989
Streets of Yesterday
Character:Joseph
Release Date:01/05/1989
Tree of Hands
Character:Barry
Release Date:07/03/1989
The Importance of Being Earnest
Character:John Worthing
Release Date:29/05/1988
Empire of the Sun
Character:Lieutenant Price
Release Date:09/12/1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
Character:Giovanni Cariani
Release Date:05/08/1987
Withnail & I
Character:...& I
Release Date:19/06/1987
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Character:Mo Morris
Release Date:31/12/1984
Gaskin
Character:Graham Gaskin
Release Date:01/01/1983
Whistling Wally
Character:Norman
Release Date:06/04/1982
Television Appearances
Bookish
Character:Mr. Kind
Anne
Character:Malcolm Thornton MP
Annika
Character:Jake Strathearn
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Character:Self - Narrator
McDonald & Dodds
Character:Archie Addington
Victorian Sensations
Character:Self - Presenter
Wildest Europe
Character:Narrator
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
Character:Narrator
Shark
Character:Himself - Narrator
Wild Sri Lanka
Character:Paul McGann
Wildest Middle East
Character:Narrator
Secrets of the Castle
Character:Narrator (Voice)
Wildest Indochina
Character:Narrator (voice)
The Musketeers
Character:St Pierre
The Musketeers
Character:Saint Pierre
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
Character:Self
Wildest Islands
Character:Narrator
Ripper Street
Character:Stanley Bone
The Bletchley Circle
Character:John Richards
A Mother's Son
Character:David
Wildest Latin America
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Luther
Character:Mark North
Collision
Character:Richard Reeves
Moving On
Character:Phil
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
Character:Himself - Narrator (voice)
True Dare Kiss
Character:Nash McKinnon
Tripping Over
Character:Jeremy
Psycho
Character:Narrator
Kidnapped
Character:
Twisted Tales
Character:Phone (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
Character:Dickie Erskine
Bible Mysteries
Character:Himself-Narrator
Sea of Souls
Character:Christopher Chambers
New Tricks
Character:D.C.I. James Larson
Sweet Revenge
Character:Patrick Vine
Waking the Dead
Character:ACC Tony Nicholson
Fish
Character:Jonathan Vishnevski
Nature Boy
Character:Steve Witton
Forgotten
Character:Ben Turner
Holby City
Character:John Gaskell
Hornblower
Character:William Bush
Our Mutual Friend
Character:Eugene Wrayburn
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Character:David (voice)
The Hanging Gale
Character:Liam Phelan
Nice Town
Character:Joe Thompson
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character:Dr. Peter Lord
The Monocled Mutineer
Character:Percy Toplis
Natural World
Character:Narrator
Give us a Break
Character:Mo Morris
Fish
Character:
Play for Today
Character:Norman
Horizon
Character:Himself
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