Paul McGann

Known for: Acting
Born: November 14, 1959, Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Movies: 113

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.4

Alien³

1992

7.5

Empire of the Sun

1987

6.1

Queen of the Damned

2002

6.4

The Three Musketeers

1993

8.2

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

7.2

Withnail & I

1987

5.2

Lesbian Vampire Killers

2009

6.2

Doctor Who

1996

7.4

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008

8.0

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015

Filmography

2026	Triesverse: Cataclysm	The Doctor
2026	Good Behaviour	Richard
2025	The Marbles	Lord Byron (voice)
2025	Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War	The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024	Doctor Who at the Proms	The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024	Churchill’s Forgotten War	Narrator (voice)
2023	The Day of the Sun Dog	Jaggers
2023	The Undertaker	Arthur
2023	Talking Doctor Who	Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023	Mia and the Dragon Princess	Walsh
2022	Doctor Who Am I	Self
2022	Swallow Your Dreams	James
2020	The Big Night In	Self
2019	The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019	The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On	Self
2019	Swans: Mystery of the Missing	Self - Narrator (voice)
2018	Picasso's Last Stand	Narrator
2018	Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land	Himself
2017	Perplexed Music	Man
2017	Brakes	Peter
2017	Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence	Narrator (voice)
2017	Nero's Sunken City	Narrator (English Voice)
2017	B&B	Josh
2016	Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack	Narrator (Voice)
2015	Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song	The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015	China - Treasures of the Jade Empire	Narrator
2015	Absence	Man
2015	The Other Prince William	Self - Narrator (voice)
2015	Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden	Narrator (voice)
2015	Churchill: When Britain Said No	Narrator (voice)
2015	Shark: Beneath the Surface	self, narrator
2015	Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace	narrator
2015	Super Powered Owls	Narrator
2014	The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story	Himself
2014	The Minister of Chance: Prologue	Durian
2014	Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race	Narrator (Voice)
2014	Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison	Self
2014	France: The Wild Side	Narrator
2014	Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014	A Little Place Off the Edgware Road	James Craven
2014	Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting	Narrator
2013	The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot	Self
2013	Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor	The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013	Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor	The Doctor
2013	JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence	Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013	Brady and Hindley: Possession	Narrator (voice)
2013	Art Is...	Lulu's Dad
2012	Britain's Greatest Codebreaker	Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012	Tiger Island	Narrator
2012	SOS: The Titanic Inquiry	Sir Rufus Isaacs
2011	Digging The Great Escape	narrator
2011	Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011	Gadaffi and the IRA	Narrator
2011	The 9/11 Surfer	Narrator
2010	The Day John Lennon Died	Narrator
2010	Godard & Others	Torrence
2009	Lesbian Vampire Killers	Vicar
2008	Doctor Who: The Next Doctor	The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2008	Fables of Forgotten Things	Clarence
2008	My Dad Was a Communist	Narrator
2008	The Ties That Bind Us	Self - Narrator
2007	Davros Connections	(archival audio)
2007	Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover	Narrator
2007	Always Crashing in the Same Car	Bill Mackinnon
2007	World of Compulsive Hoarders
2006	If I Had You	Philip Andrews
2005	Ghosts on the Underground	Narrator
2005	The Orangutan King	Narrator
2005	Gypo	Paul
2005	Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005	Death of an Idealist	Narrator
2003	Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'	Self
2003	Listening	Man
2003	Otherworld	King Matholwch (voice)
2003	Doctor Who: Shada	The Doctor (voice)
2003	Hornblower: Duty	Lieutenant Bush
2003	Hornblower: Loyalty	Lieutenant Bush
2002	The Biographer	Andrew Morton
2002	Queen of the Damned	David Talbot
2001	My Kingdom	Dean
2001	Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story	Self- Narrator
2001	Hornblower: Retribution	Lt. Bush
2001	Hornblower: Mutiny	Lieutenant Bush
2001	Hotel!	Ben Carter
1999	Withnail and Us	Self
1998	The Dance of Shiva	Captain Greville
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	Arthur Wright
1997	Downtime	Rob
1996	Star Trek Story	Self - Commentary (voice)
1996	Doctor Who	The Doctor
1996	Catherine the Great	Potemkin
1996	Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary	Self
1996	The One That Got Away	Chris Ryan
1996	The Merchant of Venice	Bassanio
1995	The Hanging Gale	Liam Phelan
1993	The Three Musketeers	Girard / Jussac
1992	Alien³	Golic
1992	Afraid of the Dark	Tony
1992	The Making of 'Alien³'	Self
1990	Paper Mask	Matthew Harris
1990	Drowning in the Shallow End	Colin
1990	The Monk	Father Lorenzo Rojas
1989	Dealers	Daniel Pascoe
1989	The Rainbow	Anton Skrebensky
1989	Streets of Yesterday	Joseph
1989	Tree of Hands	Barry
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
1984	Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle	Mo Morris
1983	Gaskin	Graham Gaskin
1982	Whistling Wally	Norman

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