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 (90)
Alien³
Golic
The Three Musketeers
Girard / Jussac
Queen of the Damned
David Talbot
Empire of the Sun
Lieutenant Price
Withnail & I
...& I
Doctor Who
The Doctor
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Vicar
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Catherine the Great
Potemkin
Good Behaviour
Richard
FairyTale: A True Story
Arthur Wright
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Hornblower: Mutiny
Lieutenant Bush
Doctor Who at the Proms
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
The 9/11 Surfer
Narrator
The Undertaker
Arthur
The Rainbow
Anton Skrebensky
Dealers
Daniel Pascoe
The Marbles
Lord Byron (voice)
Downtime
Rob
Hornblower: Loyalty
Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Retribution
Lt. Bush
Hornblower: Duty
Lieutenant Bush
The Dance of Shiva
Captain Greville
Triesverse: Cataclysm
The Doctor
Perplexed Music
Man
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Brakes
Peter
The Merchant of Venice
Bassanio
Digging The Great Escape
narrator
Death of an Idealist
Narrator
The Biographer
Andrew Morton
The One That Got Away
Chris Ryan
B&B
Josh
The Day of the Sun Dog
Jaggers
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Mo Morris
My Kingdom
Dean
The Orangutan King
Narrator
Tree of Hands
Barry
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Churchill’s Forgotten War
Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: Shada
The Doctor (voice)
Afraid of the Dark
Tony
Cariani and the Courtesans
Giovanni Cariani
If I Had You
Philip Andrews
Paper Mask
Matthew Harris
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
Durian
Streets of Yesterday
Joseph
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
Narrator
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Narrator (Voice)
Otherworld
King Matholwch (voice)
Picasso's Last Stand
Narrator
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Narrator (voice)
Ghosts on the Underground
Narrator
The Monk
Father Lorenzo Rojas
The Importance of Being Earnest
John Worthing
Hotel!
Ben Carter
Gypo
Paul
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Narrator (Voice)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Sir Rufus Isaacs
Mia and the Dragon Princess
Walsh
Brady and Hindley: Possession
Narrator (voice)
Fables of Forgotten Things
Clarence
Gaskin
Graham Gaskin
Drowning in the Shallow End
Colin
Super Powered Owls
Narrator
France: The Wild Side
Narrator
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
Narrator
Whistling Wally
Norman
Davros Connections
(archival audio)
The Day John Lennon Died
Narrator
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
narrator
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Bill Mackinnon
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
Nero's Sunken City
Narrator (English Voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
Narrator (voice)
Kidnapped
Colonel MacNab
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Narrator (voice)
Swallow Your Dreams
James
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Narrator
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
James Craven
Art Is...
Lulu's Dad
My Dad Was a Communist
Narrator
Absence
Man
TV Shows (47)
Play for Today
Norman · 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Dr. Peter Lord · 1 eps
Holby City
John Gaskell · 52 eps
New Tricks
D.C.I. James Larson · 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dickie Erskine · 1 eps
Natural World
Narrator · 5 eps
Screen Two
Colin · 1 eps
Waking the Dead
ACC Tony Nicholson · 2 eps
Bookish
Mr. Kind · 2 eps
Ripper Street
Stanley Bone · 1 eps
Luther
Mark North · 10 eps
The Musketeers
St Pierre · 1 eps
The Musketeers
Saint Pierre · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Giovanni Cariani · 1 eps
Moving On
Phil · 1 eps
Real Crime
11 eps
Hornblower
William Bush · 4 eps
McDonald & Dodds
Archie Addington · 1 eps
Annika
Jake Strathearn · 6 eps
Zero Hour
Narrator (Voice) · 6 eps
The Bletchley Circle
John Richards · 1 eps
Anne
Malcolm Thornton MP · 4 eps
Fish
13 eps
Wildest Islands
Narrator · 10 eps
Sea of Souls
Christopher Chambers · 1 eps
Testament: The Bible in Animation
David (voice) · 1 eps
Twisted Tales
Phone (voice) · 1 eps
Our Mutual Friend
Eugene Wrayburn · 4 eps
Collision
Richard Reeves · 5 eps
Tripping Over
Jeremy · 6 eps
A Mother's Son
David · 2 eps
Wildest Europe
Narrator · 5 eps
Blood Strangers
DC David Ingram · 2 eps
The True Story
Narrator · 8 eps
The Monocled Mutineer
Percy Toplis · 4 eps
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan · 4 eps
Nature Boy
Steve Witton · 4 eps
Wildest Indochina
Narrator (voice) · 5 eps
True Dare Kiss
Nash McKinnon · 6 eps
Give us a Break
Mo Morris · 8 eps
Lie with Me
Gerry Henson · 2 eps
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
Narrator · 5 eps
Wild Sri Lanka
Paul McGann · 3 eps
Kidnapped
3 eps
Secrets of the Castle
Narrator (Voice) · 5 eps
Wildest Middle East
Narrator · 5 eps
Forgotten
Ben Turner · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (26)
Horizon
Himself · 1 eps
Bible Mysteries
Himself-Narrator · 9 eps
Shark
Himself - Narrator · 3 eps
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
Self · 11 eps
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
Himself - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Self - Narrator · 3 eps
Victorian Sensations
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
The Big Night In
Self
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Self
Wildest Latin America
Self - Narrator (voice) · 5 eps
Doctor Who Am I
Self
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
Self- Narrator
Talking Doctor Who
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Star Trek Story
Self - Commentary (voice)
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
Himself
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Self
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Ties That Bind Us
Self - Narrator
Shark: Beneath the Surface
self, narrator
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Self - Narrator (voice)
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Self
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Self
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Withnail and Us
Self
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Himself
