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.
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Acting History
2025
The Marbles as Lord Byron (voice)
2025Bookish as Mr. Kind
2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show as The Doctor
2024Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024Churchill’s Forgotten War as Narrator (voice)
2023The Day of the Sun Dog as Jaggers
2023The Undertaker as Arthur
2023Talking Doctor Who as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023Mia and the Dragon Princess as Walsh
2022Doctor Who Am I as Self
2022Swallow Your Dreams as James
2022Anne as Malcolm Thornton MP
2021Annika as Jake Strathearn
2021Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World as Self - Narrator
2020McDonald & Dodds as Archie Addington
2019The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019Victorian Sensations as Self - Presenter
2019The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On as Self
2019Swans: Mystery of the Missing as Narrator (voice)
2018Picasso's Last Stand as Narrator
2018Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land as Himself
2017Brakes as Peter
2017Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence as Narrator (voice)
2017Nero's Sunken City as Narrator (English Voice)
2017B&B as Josh
2017Wildest Europe as Narrator
2017Perplexed Music as Man
2016Wildest Islands of Indonesia as Narrator
2016Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack as Narrator (Voice)
2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015China - Treasures of the Jade Empire as Narrator
2015Absence as Man
2015The Other Prince William as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden as Narrator (voice)
2015Churchill: When Britain Said No as Narrator (voice)
2015Shark: Beneath the Surface as self, narrator
2015Shark as Himself - Narrator
2015Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace as narrator
2015Super Powered Owls as Narrator
2015Wild Sri Lanka as Paul McGann
2014Wildest Middle East as Narrator
2014The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story as Himself
2014Secrets of the Castle as Narrator (Voice)
2014The Minister of Chance: Prologue as Durian
2014Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race as Narrator (Voice)
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison as Self
2014Wildest Indochina as Narrator (voice)
2014Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014A Little Place Off the Edgware Road as James Craven
2014The Musketeers as St Pierre
2014The Musketeers as Saint Pierre
2014Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting as Narrator
2013The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as Self
2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor as The Doctor
2013JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013Brady and Hindley: Possession as Narrator (voice)
2013Art Is... as Lulu's Dad
2013Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited as Self
2012Wildest Islands as Narrator
2012Ripper Street as Stanley Bone
2012Britain's Greatest Codebreaker as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012The Bletchley Circle as John Richards
2012A Mother's Son as David
2012Tiger Island as Narrator
2012Wildest Latin America as Self - Narrator (voice)
2012SOS: The Titanic Inquiry as Sir Rufus Isaacs
2011Digging The Great Escape as narrator
2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011The 9/11 Surfer as Narrator
2010The Day John Lennon Died as Narrator
2010Godard & Others as Torrence
2010Luther as Mark North
2009Collision as Richard Reeves
2009Moving On as Phil
2009Lesbian Vampire Killers as Vicar
2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2008Fables of Forgotten Things as Clarence
2008My Dad Was a Communist as Narrator
2008The Ties That Bind Us as Self - Narrator
2007Davros Connections as (archival audio)
2007The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2007True Dare Kiss as Nash McKinnon
2007Always Crashing in the Same Car as Bill Mackinnon
2007World of Compulsive Hoarders
2006Tripping Over as Jeremy
2006If I Had You as Philip Andrews
2005Ghosts on the Underground as Narrator
2005The Orangutan King as Narrator
2005Gypo as Paul
2005Psycho as Narrator
2005Kidnapped as Colonel MacNab
2005Kidnapped
2005Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005Twisted Tales as Phone (voice)
2005Death of an Idealist as Narrator
2004Agatha Christie's Marple as Dickie Erskine
2004Lie with Me as Gerry Henson
2004Bible Mysteries as Himself-Narrator
2004Sea of Souls as Christopher Chambers
2004New Tricks as D.C.I. James Larson
2003Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' as Self
2003Listening as Man
2003Otherworld as King Matholwch (voice)
2003Doctor Who: Shada as The Doctor (voice)
2003Hornblower: Duty as Lieutenant Bush
2003Hornblower: Loyalty as Lieutenant Bush
2002The Biographer as Andrew Morton
2002Queen of the Damned as David Talbot
2002Blood Strangers as DC David Ingram
2001Sweet Revenge as Patrick Vine
2001My Kingdom as Dean
2001Waking the Dead as ACC Tony Nicholson
2001Hornblower: Retribution as Lt. Bush
2001Hornblower: Mutiny as Lieutenant Bush
2001Hotel! as Ben Carter
2000Fish as Jonathan Vishnevski
2000Nature Boy as Steve Witton
1999Withnail and Us as Self
1999Forgotten as Ben Turner
1999Holby City as John Gaskell
1998The Dance of Shiva as Captain Greville
1998Hornblower as William Bush
1998Our Mutual Friend as Eugene Wrayburn
1997FairyTale: A True Story as Arthur Wright
1997Downtime as Rob
1996Testament: The Bible in Animation as David (voice)
1996Star Trek Story as Self - Commentary (voice)
1996Doctor Who as The Doctor
1996Catherine the Great as Potemkin
1996Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self
1996The One That Got Away as Chris Ryan
1996The Merchant of Venice as Bassanio
1995The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan
1995The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan
1993The Three Musketeers as Girard / Jussac
1992Nice Town as Joe Thompson
1992Alien³ as Golic
1991Afraid of the Dark as Tony
1990Paper Mask as Matthew Harris
1990Drowning in the Shallow End as Colin
1990The Monk as Father Lorenzo Rojas
1989Dealers as Daniel Pascoe
1989The Rainbow as Anton Skrebensky
1989Streets of Yesterday as Joseph
1989Tree of Hands as Barry
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Dr. Peter Lord
1988The Importance of Being Earnest as John Worthing
1987Empire of the Sun as Lieutenant Price
1987Cariani and the Courtesans as Giovanni Cariani
1987Withnail & I as ...& I
1986The Monocled Mutineer as Percy Toplis
1984Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle as Mo Morris
1983Natural World as Narrator
1983Give us a Break as Mo Morris
1983Gaskin as Graham Gaskin
1982Whistling Wally as Norman
1977Fish
1970Play for Today as Norman
1964Horizon as Himself