
Paul McGann
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 14, 1959 (age 66)
- Birthplace
- 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 his incarnation of the character.
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Filmography

Good Behaviour
Movie · as Richard

Triesverse: Cataclysm
Movie · as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Movie · as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Marbles
Movie · as Lord Byron (voice)

Bookish
TV · as Mr. Kind · 2 eps

Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie · as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Churchill’s Forgotten War
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Mia and the Dragon Princess
Movie · as Walsh

The Day of the Sun Dog
Movie · as Jaggers

The Undertaker
Movie · as Arthur

Talking Doctor Who
Movie · as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Swallow Your Dreams
Movie · as James

Doctor Who Am I
Movie · as Self

Anne
TV · as Malcolm Thornton MP · 4 eps

Annika
TV · as Jake Strathearn · 6 eps

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
TV · as Self - Narrator · 3 eps

The Big Night In
Movie · as Self

McDonald & Dodds
TV · as Archie Addington · 1 ep

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
Movie

Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Movie · as Self

Victorian Sensations
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep

Picasso's Last Stand
Movie · as Narrator

Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Movie · as Himself

Nero's Sunken City
Movie · as Narrator (English Voice)

Brakes
Movie · as Peter

B&B
Movie · as Josh

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Perplexed Music
Movie · as Man

Wildest Europe
TV · as Narrator · 5 eps

Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Movie · as Narrator (Voice)

Wildest Islands of Indonesia
TV · as Narrator · 5 eps

China: Between Clouds and Dreams
TV · as Self – Narrator · 5 eps

Super Powered Owls
Movie · as Narrator

Absence
Movie · as Man
The Other Prince William
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
Movie · as Narrator

Churchill: When Britain Said No
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Movie · as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Movie · as narrator

Shark: Beneath the Surface
Movie · as self, narrator

Shark
Movie · as 配音

Shark
TV · as Himself - Narrator · 3 eps

Wild Sri Lanka
TV · as Paul McGann · 3 eps

Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Movie · as Narrator

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Movie · as Self

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
Movie · as James Craven

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Movie · as Narrator (Voice)

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
Movie · as Himself

The Minister of Chance: Prologue
Movie · as Durian

Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
Movie

France: The Wild Side
Movie · as Narrator

Wildest Middle East
TV · as Narrator · 5 eps

Secrets of the Castle
TV · as Narrator (Voice) · 5 eps

The Musketeers
TV · as St Pierre, Saint Pierre · 1 ep

Wildest Indochina
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 5 eps

Brady and Hindley: Possession
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Movie · as Self

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Movie · as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
Movie · as The Doctor

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Movie · as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Art Is...
Movie · as Lulu's Dad

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
TV · as Self · 11 eps
Tiger Island
Movie · as Narrator

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Movie · as Himself - Narrator (voice)

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Movie · as Sir Rufus Isaacs

Wildest Latin America
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 5 eps

Wildest Islands
TV · as Narrator · 10 eps

A Mother's Son
TV · as David · 2 eps

Ripper Street
TV · as Stanley Bone · 1 ep

The Bletchley Circle
TV · as John Richards · 1 ep

The 9/11 Surfer
Movie · as Narrator

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Movie

Digging The Great Escape
Movie · as narrator
Gadaffi and the IRA
Movie · as Narrator
Godard & Others
Movie · as Torrence

The Day John Lennon Died
Movie · as Narrator

Luther
TV · as Mark North · 10 eps

Lesbian Vampire Killers
Movie · as Vicar

Collision
TV · as Richard Reeves · 5 eps

Moving On
TV · as Phil · 1 ep

My Dad Was a Communist
Movie · as Narrator

Fables of Forgotten Things
Movie · as Clarence

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Movie · as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

The Ties That Bind Us
Movie · as Self - Narrator

The True Story
TV · as Narrator · 8 eps

Always Crashing in the Same Car
Movie · as Bill Mackinnon

World of Compulsive Hoarders
Movie

Davros Connections
Movie · as (archival audio)

Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
Movie · as Narrator

True Dare Kiss
TV · as Nash McKinnon · 6 eps

The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
TV · as Himself - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps

If I Had You
Movie · as Philip Andrews

Tripping Over
TV · as Jeremy · 6 eps

Gypo
Movie · as Paul

The Orangutan King
Movie · as Narrator

Death of an Idealist
Movie · as Narrator

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
Movie

Ghosts on the Underground
Movie · as Narrator

Kidnapped
TV · 3 eps
Psycho
TV · as Narrator · 4 eps

Twisted Tales
TV · as Phone (voice) · 1 ep

Sea of Souls
TV · as Christopher Chambers · 1 ep

New Tricks
TV · as D.C.I. James Larson · 1 ep

Bible Mysteries
TV · as Himself-Narrator · 9 eps

Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Dickie Erskine · 1 ep

Zero Hour
TV · as Narrator (Voice) · 6 eps

Lie with Me
TV · as Gerry Henson · 2 eps

Hornblower: Duty
Movie · as Lieutenant Bush

Hornblower: Loyalty
Movie · as Lieutenant Bush

Otherworld
Movie · as King Matholwch (voice)

Doctor Who: Shada
Movie · as The Doctor (voice)
Listening
Movie · as Man

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Movie · as Self

Spine Chillers
TV · as Voice of the Phone · 1 ep

Queen of the Damned
Movie · as David Talbot

The Biographer
Movie · as Andrew Morton

Blood Strangers
TV · as DC David Ingram · 2 eps

Hornblower: Mutiny
Movie · as Lieutenant Bush

My Kingdom
Movie · as Dean

Hornblower: Retribution
Movie · as Lt. Bush

Hotel!
Movie · as Ben Carter

Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
Movie · as Self- Narrator
Sweet Revenge
TV · as Patrick Vine · 2 eps

Waking the Dead
TV · as ACC Tony Nicholson · 2 eps

Real Crime
TV · 11 eps
Fish
TV · as Jonathan Vishnevski · 6 eps

Nature Boy
TV · as Steve Witton · 4 eps

Withnail and Us
Movie · as Self

Forgotten
TV · as Ben Turner · 3 eps

Holby City
TV · as John Gaskell · 52 eps

The Dance of Shiva
Movie · as Captain Greville

Hornblower
TV · as William Bush · 4 eps

Our Mutual Friend
TV · as Eugene Wrayburn · 4 eps

Downtime
Movie · as Rob

FairyTale: A True Story
Movie · as Arthur Wright

The One That Got Away
Movie · as Chris Ryan

Doctor Who
Movie · as The Doctor

Catherine the Great
Movie · as Potemkin

Star Trek Story
Movie · as Self - Commentary (voice)

The Merchant of Venice
Movie · as Bassanio

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Movie · as Self

Testament: The Bible in Animation
TV · as David (voice) · 1 ep

The Hanging Gale
Movie · as Liam Phelan

The Hanging Gale
TV · as Liam Phelan · 4 eps

The Three Musketeers
Movie · as Girard / Jussac

Alien³
Movie · as Golic

Afraid of the Dark
Movie · as Tony

The Making of 'Alien³'
Movie · as Self
Nice Town
TV · as Joe Thompson · 3 eps

Paper Mask
Movie · as Matthew Harris

Drowning in the Shallow End
Movie · as Colin

The Monk
Movie · as Father Lorenzo Rojas

The Rainbow
Movie · as Anton Skrebensky

Dealers
Movie · as Daniel Pascoe

Streets of Yesterday
Movie · as Joseph

Tree of Hands
Movie · as Barry

Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Dr. Peter Lord · 1 ep

The Importance of Being Earnest
Movie · as John Worthing

Withnail & I
Movie · as ...& I

Cariani and the Courtesans
Movie · as Giovanni Cariani

Empire of the Sun
Movie · as Lieutenant Price

The Monocled Mutineer
TV · as Percy Toplis · 4 eps

ScreenPlay
TV · as Giovanni Cariani · 1 ep
Sunday Premiere
TV · as Percy Toplis · 4 eps

Screen Two
TV · as Colin · 1 ep

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Movie · as Mo Morris

Gaskin
Movie · as Graham Gaskin

Natural World
TV · as Narrator · 5 eps

Give us a Break
TV · as Mo Morris · 8 eps

Whistling Wally
Movie · as Norman

Fish
TV · 13 eps

Play for Today
TV · as Norman · 1 ep

Horizon
TV · as Himself · 1 ep

