Paul McGann
Acting
Born: November 14, 1959 (age 66) · Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Alien³
1992
Empire of the Sun
1987
Luther
2010
Queen of the Damned
2002
The Three Musketeers
1993
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
Withnail & I
1987
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009
Doctor Who
1996
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
The Musketeers
2014
Photos (2)
Movies (89)
Alien³
Golic
Empire of the Sun
Lieutenant Price
The Three Musketeers
Girard / Jussac
Queen of the Damned
David Talbot
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Vicar
Withnail & I
...& I
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Hornblower: Loyalty
Lieutenant Bush
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
FairyTale: A True Story
Arthur Wright
The Rainbow
Anton Skrebensky
Hornblower: Retribution
Lt. Bush
The Undertaker
Arthur
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
The Biographer
Andrew Morton
Hornblower: Duty
Lieutenant Bush
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Narrator (voice)
My Kingdom
Dean
Doctor Who at the Proms
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Catherine the Great
Potemkin
The Marbles
Lord Byron (voice)
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan
Paper Mask
Matthew Harris
Dealers
Daniel Pascoe
The Importance of Being Earnest
John Worthing
Afraid of the Dark
Tony
Cariani and the Courtesans
Giovanni Cariani
The One That Got Away
Chris Ryan
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
Durian
Drowning in the Shallow End
Colin
Ghosts on the Underground
Narrator
Picasso's Last Stand
Narrator
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Bill Mackinnon
Good Behaviour
Richard
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
The Doctor
Downtime
Rob
Fables of Forgotten Things
Clarence
Streets of Yesterday
Joseph
The Day of the Sun Dog
Jaggers
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Narrator (Voice)
The Merchant of Venice
Bassanio
Hornblower: Mutiny
Lieutenant Bush
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Mo Morris
Otherworld
King Matholwch (voice)
Death of an Idealist
Narrator
The Dance of Shiva
Captain Greville
Churchill’s Forgotten War
Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City
Narrator (English Voice)
Triesverse: Cataclysm
The Doctor
Perplexed Music
Man
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
Gypo
Paul
Hotel!
Ben Carter
If I Had You
Philip Andrews
Digging The Great Escape
narrator
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Narrator (Voice)
The 9/11 Surfer
Narrator
Mia and the Dragon Princess
Walsh
Tree of Hands
Barry
My Dad Was a Communist
Narrator
France: The Wild Side
Narrator
The Day John Lennon Died
Narrator
Brakes
Peter
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Sir Rufus Isaacs
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
Narrator (voice)
The Monk
Father Lorenzo Rojas
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
Narrator
Whistling Wally
Norman
Doctor Who: Shada
The Doctor (voice)
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
Narrator
Brady and Hindley: Possession
Narrator (voice)
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Narrator
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
narrator
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
James Craven
B&B
Josh
Absence
Man
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Narrator (voice)
Super Powered Owls
Narrator
The Orangutan King
Narrator
Gaskin
Graham Gaskin
Davros Connections
(archival audio)
Swallow Your Dreams
James
Art Is...
Lulu's Dad
TV Shows (47)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Dr. Peter Lord · 1 eps
Holby City
John Gaskell · 52 eps
Play for Today
Norman · 1 eps
Natural World
Narrator · 5 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dickie Erskine · 1 eps
Waking the Dead
ACC Tony Nicholson · 2 eps
New Tricks
D.C.I. James Larson · 1 eps
Screen Two
Colin · 1 eps
Luther
Mark North · 10 eps
The Musketeers
St Pierre · 1 eps
The Musketeers
Saint Pierre · 1 eps
Ripper Street
Stanley Bone · 1 eps
Hornblower
William Bush · 4 eps
ScreenPlay
Giovanni Cariani · 1 eps
Moving On
Phil · 1 eps
McDonald & Dodds
Archie Addington · 1 eps
Annika
Jake Strathearn · 6 eps
Bookish
Mr. Kind · 2 eps
Sea of Souls
Christopher Chambers · 1 eps
The Bletchley Circle
John Richards · 1 eps
Our Mutual Friend
Eugene Wrayburn · 4 eps
Fish
13 eps
Testament: The Bible in Animation
David (voice) · 1 eps
Zero Hour
Narrator (Voice) · 6 eps
Anne
Malcolm Thornton MP · 4 eps
Twisted Tales
Phone (voice) · 1 eps
Collision
Richard Reeves · 5 eps
The Monocled Mutineer
Percy Toplis · 4 eps
True Dare Kiss
Nash McKinnon · 6 eps
Tripping Over
Jeremy · 6 eps
Wildest Islands
Narrator · 10 eps
Give us a Break
Mo Morris · 8 eps
The True Story
Narrator · 8 eps
A Mother's Son
David · 2 eps
Nature Boy
Steve Witton · 4 eps
Blood Strangers
DC David Ingram · 2 eps
Wildest Europe
Narrator · 5 eps
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan · 4 eps
Secrets of the Castle
Narrator (Voice) · 5 eps
Wildest Middle East
Narrator · 5 eps
Kidnapped
3 eps
Wild Sri Lanka
Paul McGann · 3 eps
Lie with Me
Gerry Henson · 2 eps
Forgotten
Ben Turner · 3 eps
Wildest Indochina
Narrator (voice) · 5 eps
Real Crime
11 eps
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
Narrator · 5 eps
Self / Appearances (28)
Horizon
Himself · 1 eps
Bible Mysteries
Himself-Narrator · 9 eps
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
Self · 11 eps
Talking Doctor Who
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Self - Narrator · 3 eps
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
Shark
Himself - Narrator · 3 eps
Doctor Who Am I
Self
The Big Night In
Self
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Self
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
Himself - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
Self- Narrator
Victorian Sensations
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
Star Trek Story
Self - Commentary (voice)
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Ties That Bind Us
Self - Narrator
The Making of 'Alien³'
Self
Wildest Latin America
Self - Narrator (voice) · 5 eps
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Himself
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
Himself
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
Self – Narrator · 5 eps
Shark: Beneath the Surface
self, narrator
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Self
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Self
Withnail and Us
Self
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Self