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Paul McGann

Paul McGann

ActingNovember 14, 1959(age 66)Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

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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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Filmography (167)

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025·The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

2025·Lord Byron (voice)

Other Credits (2)

China: Between Clouds and Dreams

2016·Commissioning Editor

Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show

2024·The Doctor

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024·The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Churchill’s Forgotten War

2024·Narrator (voice)

Mia and the Dragon Princess

The Day of the Sun Dog

Talking Doctor Who

2023·Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Swallow Your Dreams

Doctor Who Am I

2022·Malcolm Thornton MP

2021·Jake Strathearn

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

2021·Self - Narrator

The Big Night In

McDonald & Dodds

2020·Archie Addington

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

2019·Self - Narrator (voice)

The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On

Victorian Sensations

2019·Self - Presenter

Picasso's Last Stand

Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land

Nero's Sunken City

2017·Narrator (English Voice)

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

2017·Narrator (voice)

Perplexed Music

Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

2016·Narrator (Voice)

Wildest Islands of Indonesia

Super Powered Owls

The Other Prince William

2015·Self - Narrator (voice)

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

2015·Narrator (voice)

China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

Churchill: When Britain Said No

2015·Narrator (voice)

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015·The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

Shark: Beneath the Surface

2015·self, narrator

2015·Himself - Narrator

2015·Paul McGann

Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

2014·James Craven

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

2014·Narrator (Voice)

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

The Minister of Chance: Prologue

Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius

France: The Wild Side

Wildest Middle East

Secrets of the Castle

2014·Narrator (Voice)

2014·St Pierre

Wildest Indochina

2014·Narrator (voice)

Brady and Hindley: Possession

2013·Narrator (voice)

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013·The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

2013·The Doctor

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

2013·Himself - Narrator (voice)

2013·Lulu's Dad

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

2012·Himself - Narrator (voice)

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

2012·Sir Rufus Isaacs

Wildest Latin America

2012·Self - Narrator (voice)

Wildest Islands

2012·Stanley Bone

The Bletchley Circle

2012·John Richards

The 9/11 Surfer

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

Digging The Great Escape

Gadaffi and the IRA

Godard & Others

The Day John Lennon Died

2010·Mark North

Lesbian Vampire Killers

2009·Richard Reeves

My Dad Was a Communist

Fables of Forgotten Things

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008·The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

The Ties That Bind Us

2008·Self - Narrator

Always Crashing in the Same Car

2007·Bill Mackinnon

World of Compulsive Hoarders

Davros Connections

2007·(archival audio)

Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover

2007·Nash McKinnon

The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest

2007·Himself - Narrator (voice)

2006·Philip Andrews

The Orangutan King

Death of an Idealist

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK

Ghosts on the Underground

2005·Colonel MacNab

2005·Phone (voice)

2004·Gerry Henson

2004·Christopher Chambers

2004·D.C.I. James Larson

Bible Mysteries

2004·Himself-Narrator

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004·Dickie Erskine

2004·Narrator (Voice)

Hornblower: Duty

2003·Lieutenant Bush

Hornblower: Loyalty

2003·Lieutenant Bush

2003·King Matholwch (voice)

Doctor Who: Shada

2003·The Doctor (voice)

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

Queen of the Damned

2002·David Talbot

Blood Strangers

2002·DC David Ingram

2002·Andrew Morton

Hornblower: Mutiny

2001·Lieutenant Bush

Hornblower: Retribution

2001·Ben Carter

Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story

2001·Self- Narrator

2001·Patrick Vine

Waking the Dead

2001·ACC Tony Nicholson

2000·Jonathan Vishnevski

2000·Steve Witton

Withnail and Us

1999·Ben Turner

1999·John Gaskell

The Dance of Shiva

1998·Captain Greville

1998·William Bush

Our Mutual Friend

1998·Eugene Wrayburn

FairyTale: A True Story

1997·Arthur Wright

The One That Got Away

1996·Chris Ryan

1996·The Doctor

Catherine the Great

Star Trek Story

1996·Self - Commentary (voice)

The Merchant of Venice

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

Testament: The Bible in Animation

1996·David (voice)

The Hanging Gale

1995·Liam Phelan

The Hanging Gale

1995·Liam Phelan

The Three Musketeers

1993·Girard / Jussac

1992·Joe Thompson

Afraid of the Dark

1990·Matthew Harris

Drowning in the Shallow End

1990·Father Lorenzo Rojas

1989·Anton Skrebensky

1989·Daniel Pascoe

Streets of Yesterday

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989·Dr. Peter Lord

The Importance of Being Earnest

1988·John Worthing

Cariani and the Courtesans

1987·Giovanni Cariani

Empire of the Sun

1987·Lieutenant Price

The Monocled Mutineer

1986·Percy Toplis

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

1984·Mo Morris

1983·Graham Gaskin

Give us a Break

1983·Mo Morris

Whistling Wally