Actor
Paul McGann
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
Acting
2024 -- Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show | The Doctor
2024 -- Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023 -- The Day of the Sun Dog | Jaggers
2023 -- The Undertaker | Arthur
2023 -- Talking Doctor Who | Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023 -- Mia and the Dragon Princess | Walsh
2022 -- Doctor Who Am I | Self
2022 -- Swallow Your Dreams | James
2019 -- The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On | Self
2019 -- Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann |
2019 -- Swans: Mystery of the Missing | Narrator (voice)
2019 -- The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years |
2018 -- Picasso's Last Stand | Narrator
2018 -- Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land | Himself
2017 -- Brakes | Peter
2017 -- Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence | Narrator (voice)
2017 -- Nero's Sunken City | Narrator (English Voice)
2017 -- B&B | Josh
2017 -- Perplexed Music | Man
2016 -- Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack | Narrator (Voice)
2015 -- China - Treasures of the Jade Empire | Narrator
2015 -- Absence | Man
2015 -- The Other Prince William | Self - Narrator (voice)
2015 -- Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden | Narrator (voice)
2015 -- Churchill: When Britain Said No | Narrator (voice)
2015 -- Super Powered Owls | Narrator
2014 -- The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story | Himself
2014 -- Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race | Narrator (Voice)
2014 -- Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison | Self
2014 -- A Little Place Off the Edgware Road | James Craven
2014 -- Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting | Narrator
2013 -- Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013 -- The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self
2013 -- Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | The Doctor
2013 -- JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence | Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013 -- Brady and Hindley: Possession | Narrator (voice)
2013 -- Art Is... | Lulu's Dad
2012 -- Britain's Greatest Codebreaker | Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012 -- Tiger Island | Narrator
2012 -- SOS: The Titanic Inquiry | Sir Rufus Isaacs
2011 -- Digging The Great Escape | narrator
2011 -- Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time |
2011 -- The 9/11 Surfer | Narrator
2010 -- The Day John Lennon Died | Narrator
2010 -- Godard & Others | Torrence
2009 -- Lesbian Vampire Killers | Vicar
2008 -- Fables of Forgotten Things | Clarence
2008 -- My Dad Was a Communist | Narrator
2007 -- Davros Connections | (archival audio)
2007 -- Always Crashing in the Same Car | Bill Mackinnon
2007 -- World of Compulsive Hoarders |
2006 -- If I Had You | Philip Andrews
2005 -- Ghosts on the Underground | Narrator
2005 -- The Orangutan King | Narrator
2005 -- Gypo | Paul
2005 -- Kidnapped | Colonel MacNab
2005 -- Daphne Ashbrook in the UK |
2005 -- Death of an Idealist | Narrator
2004 -- Lie with Me | Gerry Henson
2003 -- Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' | Self
2003 -- Listening | Man
2003 -- Otherworld | King Matholwch (voice)
2003 -- Doctor Who: Shada | The Doctor (voice)
2003 -- Hornblower: Duty | Lieutenant Bush
2003 -- Hornblower: Loyalty | Lieutenant Bush
2002 -- The Biographer | Andrew Morton
2002 -- Queen of the Damned | David Talbot
2002 -- Blood Strangers | DC David Ingram
2001 -- My Kingdom | Dean
2001 -- Hornblower: Retribution | Lt. Bush
2001 -- Hornblower: Mutiny | Lieutenant Bush
2001 -- Hotel! | Ben Carter
1999 -- Withnail and Us | Self
1998 -- The Dance of Shiva | Captain Greville
1997 -- FairyTale: A True Story | Arthur Wright
1997 -- Downtime | Rob
1996 -- Star Trek Story | Self - Commentary (voice)
1996 -- Doctor Who | The Doctor
1996 -- Catherine the Great | Potemkin
1996 -- Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Self
1996 -- The One That Got Away | Chris Ryan
1996 -- The Merchant of Venice | Bassanio
1995 -- The Hanging Gale | Liam Phelan
1993 -- The Three Musketeers | Girard / Jussac
1992 -- Alien³ | Golic
1991 -- Afraid of the Dark | Tony
1990 -- Paper Mask | Matthew Harris
1990 -- Drowning in the Shallow End | Colin
1990 -- The Monk | Father Lorenzo Rojas
1989 -- Dealers | Daniel Pascoe
1989 -- The Rainbow | Anton Skrebensky
1989 -- Streets of Yesterday | Joseph
1989 -- Tree of Hands | Barry
1988 -- The Importance of Being Earnest | John Worthing
1987 -- Empire of the Sun | Lieutenant Price
1987 -- Cariani and the Courtesans | Giovanni Cariani
1987 -- Withnail & I | ...& I
1984 -- Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle | Mo Morris
1983 -- Gaskin | Graham Gaskin
1982 -- Whistling Wally | Norman
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