Paul McGann

Paul John McGann

About the person

Career:

Acting

Date of birth:

1959-11-1466

Place of birth:

Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

Gender:

Male

Popularity:

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

Rating by year

Good Behaviour
Richard
2026-03-28
0.00
The Marbles
Lord Byron (voice)
2025-11-07
0.00
Bookish
Mr. Kind
2025-07-16
6.132
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025-05-31
5.010
Doctor Who at the Proms
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024-12-24
7.24
Churchill’s Forgotten War
Narrator (voice)
2024-05-04
8.01
The Day of the Sun Dog
Jaggers
2023-11-26
0.00
The Undertaker
Arthur
2023-11-03
5.52
Talking Doctor Who
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023-11-01
5.03
Mia and the Dragon Princess
Walsh
2023-04-21
6.415
Doctor Who Am I
Self
2022-10-27
4.85
Swallow Your Dreams
James
2022-09-12
10.01
Anne
Malcolm Thornton MP
2022-01-02
7.119
Annika
Jake Strathearn
2021-08-17
6.967
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Self - Narrator
2021-04-12
3.97
The Big Night In
Self
2020-04-23
9.02
McDonald & Dodds
Archie Addington
2020-03-01
7.661
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019-09-02
2.01
Victorian Sensations
Self - Presenter
2019-05-22
0.00
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Self
2019-04-24
7.84
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Self - Narrator (voice)
2019-03-01
10.01
Picasso's Last Stand
Narrator
2018-03-24
0.00
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Himself
2018-01-01
0.00
Perplexed Music
Man
2017-12-10
0.00
Brakes
Peter
2017-11-24
5.614
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Narrator (voice)
2017-09-24
8.02
Nero's Sunken City
Narrator (English Voice)
2017-04-16
5.05
B&B
Josh
2017-04-13
6.363
Wildest Europe
Narrator
2017-02-08
0.00
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
Narrator
2016-11-27
8.01
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Narrator (Voice)
2016-09-05
0.00
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015-12-25
8.0162
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
Narrator
2015-10-18
8.73
Absence
Man
2015-10-16
7.04
The Other Prince William
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015-08-27
0.00
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
Narrator (voice)
2015-07-12
9.02
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Narrator (voice)
2015-06-02
8.02
Shark: Beneath the Surface
self, narrator
2015-05-21
0.00
Shark
Himself - Narrator
2015-05-07
8.213
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
narrator
2015-05-01
10.01
Super Powered Owls
Narrator
2015-03-03
0.00
Wild Sri Lanka
Paul McGann
2015-01-14
7.86
Wildest Middle East
Narrator
2014-12-02
9.03
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
Himself
2014-11-30
5.97
Secrets of the Castle
Narrator (Voice)
2014-11-18
9.45
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
Durian
2014-10-17
0.00
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Narrator (Voice)
2014-10-13
7.46
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Self
2014-08-01
0.00
Wildest Indochina
Narrator (voice)
2014-06-25
8.65
France: The Wild Side
Narrator
2014-04-25
0.00
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014-04-01
0.00
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
James Craven
2014-03-03
0.00
The Musketeers
St Pierre
2014-01-19
7.1202
The Musketeers
Saint Pierre
2014-01-19
7.1202
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Narrator
2014-01-05
8.51
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
2013-11-23
7.862
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013-11-23
8.2777
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
The Doctor
2013-11-14
8.069
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013-11-13
7.33
Brady and Hindley: Possession
Narrator (voice)
2013-07-11
6.52
Art Is...
Lulu's Dad
2013-04-01
0.00
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
Self
2013-01-27
6.47
Wildest Islands
Narrator
2012-12-31
8.18
Ripper Street
Stanley Bone
2012-12-30
7.4197
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012-10-17
5.933
The Bletchley Circle
John Richards
2012-09-06
7.6144
A Mother's Son
David
2012-09-03
6.817
Tiger Island
Narrator
2012-07-26
0.00
Wildest Latin America
Self - Narrator (voice)
2012-06-05
8.03
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Sir Rufus Isaacs
2012-04-16
6.45
Digging The Great Escape
narrator
2011-11-28
0.00
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011-10-31
8.02
The 9/11 Surfer
Narrator
2011-09-10
6.01
The Day John Lennon Died
Narrator
2010-12-06
8.02
Godard & Others
Torrence
2010-08-01
5.22
Luther
Mark North
2010-05-04
7.91,206
Collision
Richard Reeves
2009-11-09
7.033
Moving On
Phil
2009-05-18
7.310
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Vicar
2009-03-16
5.2424
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2008-12-25
7.4232
Fables of Forgotten Things
Clarence
2008-09-01
4.01
My Dad Was a Communist
Narrator
2008-08-23
0.00
The Ties That Bind Us
Self - Narrator
2008-03-03
0.00
Davros Connections
(archival audio)
2007-11-26
0.00
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2007-10-10
7.01
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
Narrator
2007-09-07
6.24
True Dare Kiss
Nash McKinnon
2007-06-28
7.03
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Bill Mackinnon
2007-06-03
6.73
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007-05-02
0.00
Tripping Over
Jeremy
2006-10-25
0.00
If I Had You
Philip Andrews
2006-05-01
7.02
Ghosts on the Underground
Narrator
2005-10-31
7.02
The Orangutan King
Narrator
2005-10-19
10.01
Gypo
Paul
2005-08-24
5.316
Psycho
Narrator
2005-08-23
0.00
Kidnapped
Colonel MacNab
2005-02-27
0.00
Kidnapped
2005-02-27
6.84
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005-02-01
10.01
Twisted Tales
Phone (voice)
2005-01-16
7.73
Death of an Idealist
Narrator
2005-01-01
0.00
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dickie Erskine
2004-12-12
7.8143
Lie with Me
Gerry Henson
2004-11-15
5.76
Lie with Me
Gerry Henson
2004-11-15
0.00
Zero Hour
Narrator (Voice)
2004-08-29
7.49
Bible Mysteries
Himself-Narrator
2004-02-15
7.51
Sea of Souls
Christopher Chambers
2004-02-02
8.06
New Tricks
D.C.I. James Larson
2004-01-01
7.364
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Self
2003-12-02
7.823
Listening
Man
2003-10-03
7.54
Otherworld
King Matholwch (voice)
2003-06-26
5.88
Doctor Who: Shada
The Doctor (voice)
2003-05-02
7.33
Hornblower: Duty
Lieutenant Bush
2003-01-06
7.337
Hornblower: Loyalty
Lieutenant Bush
2003-01-05
7.241
The Biographer
Andrew Morton
2002-09-01
9.01
Queen of the Damned
David Talbot
2002-02-10
6.11,184
Blood Strangers
DC David Ingram
2002-02-03
5.85
Blood Strangers
DC David Ingram
2002-02-03
0.00
Sweet Revenge
Patrick Vine
2001-10-15
8.01
My Kingdom
Dean
2001-09-10
5.58
Waking the Dead
ACC Tony Nicholson
2001-06-18
7.245
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
Self- Narrator
2001-04-17
6.01
Hornblower: Retribution
Lt. Bush
2001-04-15
7.342
Hornblower: Mutiny
Lieutenant Bush
2001-04-08
7.446
Hotel!
Ben Carter
2001-02-17
5.25
Fish
Jonathan Vishnevski
2000-05-02
0.00
Nature Boy
Steve Witton
2000-02-14
7.33
Withnail and Us
Self
1999-08-04
6.45
Forgotten
Ben Turner
1999-02-15
7.64
The Dance of Shiva
Captain Greville
1998-12-18
9.01
Hornblower
William Bush
1998-10-07
7.834
Our Mutual Friend
Eugene Wrayburn
1998-03-09
7.820
FairyTale: A True Story
Arthur Wright
1997-10-24
6.4122
Downtime
Rob
1997-10-21
7.02
Testament: The Bible in Animation
David (voice)
1996-10-16
7.06
Star Trek Story
Self - Commentary (voice)
1996-08-26
0.82
Doctor Who
The Doctor
1996-05-12
6.2248
Catherine the Great
Potemkin
1996-04-28
5.634
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Self
1996-04-01
7.52
The One That Got Away
Chris Ryan
1996-02-18
6.27
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan
1995-05-14
5.84
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan
1995-01-01
0.00
The Three Musketeers
Girard / Jussac
1993-11-11
6.41,068
Nice Town
Joe Thompson
1992-11-18
6.73
Alien³
Golic
1992-05-22
6.46,407
Afraid of the Dark
Tony
1991-10-10
5.636
Paper Mask
Matthew Harris
1990-09-14
5.723
Drowning in the Shallow End
Colin
1990-01-28
7.01
The Monk
Father Lorenzo Rojas
1990-01-17
3.24
Dealers
Daniel Pascoe
1989-11-03
5.67
The Rainbow
Anton Skrebensky
1989-05-05
5.636
Streets of Yesterday
Joseph
1989-05-01
7.52
Tree of Hands
Barry
1989-03-07
8.01
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Dr. Peter Lord
1989-01-08
8.2552
The Importance of Being Earnest
John Worthing
1988-05-29
5.47
Empire of the Sun
Lieutenant Price
1987-12-09
7.52,142
Cariani and the Courtesans
Giovanni Cariani
1987-08-05
7.01
Withnail & I
...& I
1987-06-19
7.2630
The Monocled Mutineer
Percy Toplis
1986-08-31
7.73
ScreenPlay
Giovanni Cariani
1986-07-09
6.02
Screen Two
Colin
1985-01-06
7.17
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Mo Morris
1984-12-31
0.00
Natural World
Narrator
1983-10-30
7.431
Give us a Break
Mo Morris
1983-09-22
7.33
Gaskin
Graham Gaskin
1983-01-07
5.01
Whistling Wally
Norman
1982-04-06
0.00
Fish
1977-02-05
6.65
Play for Today
Norman
1970-10-15
6.610
Horizon
Himself
1964-02-04
7.434