Paul McGann
Acting • Born 1959-11-14
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
167 credits
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
Movie • 2019
Nero's Sunken City
Movie • 2017
Narrator (English Voice)
The One That Got Away
Movie • 1996
Chris Ryan
Gypo
Movie • 2005
Paul
Alien³
Movie • 1992
Golic
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Withnail & I
Movie • 1987
...& I
The Rainbow
Movie • 1989
Anton Skrebensky
Hornblower: Mutiny
Movie • 2001
Lieutenant Bush
Doctor Who
Movie • 1996
The Doctor
Tiger Island
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Super Powered Owls
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Movie • 2014
Narrator
The Orangutan King
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Hornblower: Loyalty
Movie • 2003
Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Duty
Movie • 2003
Lieutenant Bush
Mia and the Dragon Princess
Movie • 2023
Walsh
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Movie • 2009
Vicar
My Kingdom
Movie • 2001
Dean
Godard & Others
Movie • 2010
Torrence
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Movie • 2012
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Movie • 2014
Self
Catherine the Great
Movie • 1996
Potemkin
Dealers
Movie • 1989
Daniel Pascoe
Paper Mask
Movie • 1990
Matthew Harris
Hornblower: Retribution
Movie • 2001
Lt. Bush
Downtime
Movie • 1997
Rob
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
Movie • 2014
James Craven
Swallow Your Dreams
Movie • 2022
James
Otherworld
Movie • 2003
King Matholwch (voice)
Withnail and Us
Movie • 1999
Self
Drowning in the Shallow End
Movie • 1990
Colin
The Day of the Sun Dog
Movie • 2023
Jaggers
If I Had You
Movie • 2006
Philip Andrews
Brady and Hindley: Possession
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
Hotel!
Movie • 2001
Ben Carter
The Importance of Being Earnest
Movie • 1988
John Worthing
Star Trek Story
Movie • 1996
Self - Commentary (voice)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Movie • 2013
Self
The Merchant of Venice
Movie • 1996
Bassanio
The Undertaker
Movie • 2023
Arthur
Talking Doctor Who
Movie • 2023
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who Am I
Movie • 2022
Self
My Dad Was a Communist
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Lie with Me
Movie • 2004
Gerry Henson
Cariani and the Courtesans
Movie • 1987
Giovanni Cariani
Death of an Idealist
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Empire of the Sun
Movie • 1987
Lieutenant Price
Afraid of the Dark
Movie • 1991
Tony
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
Movie • 2005
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Movie • 2014
Narrator (Voice)
Gaskin
Movie • 1983
Graham Gaskin
Queen of the Damned
Movie • 2002
David Talbot
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Movie • 1984
Mo Morris
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1993
Girard / Jussac
The Dance of Shiva
Movie • 1998
Captain Greville
The Hanging Gale
Movie • 1995
Liam Phelan
Brakes
Movie • 2017
Peter
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
The Doctor
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
Movie • 2014
Himself
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Movie • 2007
Bill Mackinnon
Absence
Movie • 2015
Man
The 9/11 Surfer
Movie • 2011
Narrator
Fables of Forgotten Things
Movie • 2008
Clarence
Blood Strangers
Movie • 2002
DC David Ingram
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Movie • 2016
Narrator (Voice)
B&B
Movie • 2017
Josh
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Movie • 1996
Self
FairyTale: A True Story
Movie • 1997
Arthur Wright
The Monk
Movie • 1990
Father Lorenzo Rojas
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Movie • 2011
The Other Prince William
Movie • 2015
Self - Narrator (voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Picasso's Last Stand
Movie • 2018
Narrator
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Movie • 2013
Himself - Narrator (voice)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
Movie • 2015
Narrator
World of Compulsive Hoarders
Movie • 2007
Art Is...
Movie • 2013
Lulu's Dad
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Movie • 2018
Himself
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Davros Connections
Movie • 2007
(archival audio)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Movie • 2012
Sir Rufus Isaacs
Ghosts on the Underground
Movie • 2005
Narrator
The Biographer
Movie • 2002
Andrew Morton
Doctor Who: Shada
Movie • 2003
The Doctor (voice)
The Day John Lennon Died
Movie • 2010
Narrator
Streets of Yesterday
Movie • 1989
Joseph
Whistling Wally
Movie • 1982
Norman
Listening
Movie • 2003
Man
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Movie • 2019
Self
Tree of Hands
Movie • 1989
Barry
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Movie • 2003
Self
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Movie • 2017
Narrator (voice)
Perplexed Music
Movie • 2017
Man
Kidnapped
Movie • 2005
Colonel MacNab
Digging The Great Escape
Movie • 2011
narrator
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
Movie • 2024
The Doctor
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie • 2024
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Movie • 2008
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Movie • 2015
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Churchill’s Forgotten War
Movie • 2024
Narrator (voice)
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
Self - Narrator
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Movie • 2025
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Movie • 2015
narrator
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
Movie • 2014
Durian
Shark: Beneath the Surface
Movie • 2015
self, narrator
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
Movie • 2014
The Marbles
Movie • 2025
Lord Byron (voice)
Gadaffi and the IRA
Movie • 2011
Narrator
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
Movie • 2001
Self- Narrator
The Big Night In
Movie • 2020
Self
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
Movie • 2022
The Doctor
France: The Wild Side
Movie • 2014
Narrator
Luther
TV • 2010
Mark North
Tripping Over
TV • 2006
Jeremy
True Dare Kiss
TV • 2007
Nash McKinnon
Collision
TV • 2009
Richard Reeves
Fish
TV • 1977
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Norman
The Monocled Mutineer
TV • 1986
Percy Toplis
Sea of Souls
TV • 2004
Christopher Chambers
Fish
TV • 2000
Jonathan Vishnevski
Wildest Middle East
TV • 2014
Narrator
Annika
TV • 2021
Jake Strathearn
Wildest Latin America
TV • 2012
Self - Narrator (voice)
Forgotten
TV • 1999
Ben Turner
Secrets of the Castle
TV • 2014
Narrator (Voice)
Wildest Islands
TV • 2012
Narrator
Natural World
TV • 1983
Narrator
A Mother's Son
TV • 2012
David
Sweet Revenge
TV • 2001
Patrick Vine
Moving On
TV • 2009
Phil
Hornblower
TV • 1998
William Bush
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
TV • 2021
Self - Narrator
New Tricks
TV • 2004
D.C.I. James Larson
Shark
TV • 2015
Himself - Narrator
Bible Mysteries
TV • 2004
Himself-Narrator
The Musketeers
TV • 2014
St Pierre
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
ACC Tony Nicholson
Anne
TV • 2022
Malcolm Thornton MP
Nature Boy
TV • 2000
Steve Witton
The Musketeers
TV • 2014
Saint Pierre
Ripper Street
TV • 2012
Stanley Bone
Wild Sri Lanka
TV • 2015
Paul McGann
Kidnapped
TV • 2005
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
TV • 2007
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Dickie Erskine
Horizon
TV • 1964
Himself
McDonald & Dodds
TV • 2020
Archie Addington
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
TV • 2016
Narrator
Victorian Sensations
TV • 2019
Self - Presenter
Psycho
TV • 2005
Narrator
Wildest Europe
TV • 2017
Narrator
Give us a Break
TV • 1983
Mo Morris
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
TV • 2013
Self
Wildest Indochina
TV • 2014
Narrator (voice)
Testament: The Bible in Animation
TV • 1996
David (voice)
The Hanging Gale
TV • 1995
Liam Phelan
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Dr. Peter Lord
Twisted Tales
TV • 2005
Phone (voice)
Our Mutual Friend
TV • 1998
Eugene Wrayburn
The Bletchley Circle
TV • 2012
John Richards
Bookish
TV • 2025
Mr. Kind
Holby City
TV • 1999
John Gaskell
Nice Town
TV • 1992
Joe Thompson
Zero Hour
TV • 2004
Narrator (Voice)