Paul McGann
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.
Born: 14 November 1959
Played In
Movie
Mar 2026
Good Behaviour
Richard
Movie
Nov 2025
The Marbles
Lord Byron (voice)
TV Show
Jul 2025
Bookish
Mr. Kind
Movie
May 2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie
Dec 2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Movie
May 2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Nov 2023
The Day of the Sun Dog
Jaggers
Movie
Nov 2023
The Undertaker
Arthur
Movie
Nov 2023
Talking Doctor Who
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Movie
Apr 2023
Mia and the Dragon Princess
Walsh
Movie
Oct 2022
Doctor Who Am I
Self
Movie
Sep 2022
Swallow Your Dreams
James
TV Show
Jan 2022
Anne
Malcolm Thornton MP
TV Show
Aug 2021
Annika
Jake Strathearn
TV Show
Apr 2021
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Self - Narrator
Movie
Apr 2020
The Big Night In
Self
TV Show
Mar 2020
McDonald & Dodds
Archie Addington
Movie
Sep 2019
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
TV Show
May 2019
Victorian Sensations
Self - Presenter
Movie
Apr 2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Self
Movie
Mar 2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie
Mar 2018
Picasso's Last Stand
Narrator
Movie
Jan 2018
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Himself
Movie
Dec 2017
Perplexed Music
Man
Movie
Nov 2017
Brakes
Peter
Movie
Sep 2017
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Apr 2017
Nero's Sunken City
Narrator (English Voice)
Movie
Apr 2017
B&B
Josh
TV Show
Feb 2017
Wildest Europe
Narrator
TV Show
Nov 2016
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
Narrator
Movie
Sep 2016
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Narrator (Voice)
Movie
Dec 2015
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Movie
Oct 2015
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
Narrator
Movie
Oct 2015
Absence
Man
Movie
Aug 2015
The Other Prince William
Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie
Jul 2015
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Jun 2015
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Narrator (voice)
Movie
May 2015
Shark: Beneath the Surface
self, narrator
TV Show
May 2015
Shark
Himself - Narrator
Movie
May 2015
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
narrator
Movie
Mar 2015
Super Powered Owls
Narrator
TV Show
Jan 2015
Wild Sri Lanka
Paul McGann
TV Show
Dec 2014
Wildest Middle East
Narrator
Movie
Nov 2014
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
Himself
TV Show
Nov 2014
Secrets of the Castle
Narrator (Voice)
Movie
Oct 2014
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
Durian
Movie
Oct 2014
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Narrator (Voice)
Movie
Aug 2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Self
TV Show
Jun 2014
Wildest Indochina
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Apr 2014
France: The Wild Side
Narrator
Movie
Apr 2014
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
Movie
Mar 2014
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
James Craven
TV Show
Jan 2014
The Musketeers
St Pierre
TV Show
Jan 2014
The Musketeers
Saint Pierre
Movie
Jan 2014
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Narrator
Movie
Nov 2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
Movie
Nov 2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Movie
Nov 2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
The Doctor
Movie
Nov 2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Movie
Jul 2013
Brady and Hindley: Possession
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Apr 2013
Art Is...
Lulu's Dad
TV Show
Jan 2013
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
Self
TV Show
Dec 2012
Wildest Islands
Narrator
TV Show
Dec 2012
Ripper Street
Stanley Bone
Movie
Oct 2012
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Himself - Narrator (voice)
TV Show
Sep 2012
The Bletchley Circle
John Richards
TV Show
Sep 2012
A Mother's Son
David
Movie
Jul 2012
Tiger Island
Narrator
TV Show
Jun 2012
Wildest Latin America
Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie
Apr 2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
Sir Rufus Isaacs
Movie
Nov 2011
Digging The Great Escape
narrator
Movie
Oct 2011
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Movie
Sep 2011
Gadaffi and the IRA
Narrator
Movie
Sep 2011
The 9/11 Surfer
Narrator
Movie
Dec 2010
The Day John Lennon Died
Narrator
Movie
Aug 2010
Godard & Others
Torrence
TV Show
May 2010
Luther
Mark North
TV Show
Nov 2009
Collision
Richard Reeves
TV Show
May 2009
Moving On
Phil
Movie
Mar 2009
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Vicar
Movie
Dec 2008
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Movie
Sep 2008
Fables of Forgotten Things
Clarence
Movie
Aug 2008
My Dad Was a Communist
Narrator
Movie
Mar 2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Self - Narrator
Movie
Nov 2007
Davros Connections
(archival audio)
TV Show
Oct 2007
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Movie
Sep 2007
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
Narrator
TV Show
Jun 2007
True Dare Kiss
Nash McKinnon
Movie
Jun 2007
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Bill Mackinnon
Movie
May 2007
World of Compulsive Hoarders
TV Show
Oct 2006
Tripping Over
Jeremy
Movie
May 2006
If I Had You
Philip Andrews
Movie
Oct 2005
Ghosts on the Underground
Narrator
Movie
Oct 2005
The Orangutan King
Narrator
Movie
Aug 2005
Gypo
Paul
TV Show
Aug 2005
Psycho
Narrator
Movie
Feb 2005
Kidnapped
Colonel MacNab
TV Show
Feb 2005
Kidnapped
Movie
Feb 2005
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
TV Show
Jan 2005
Twisted Tales
Phone (voice)
Movie
Jan 2005
Death of an Idealist
Narrator
TV Show
Dec 2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dickie Erskine
Movie
Nov 2004
Lie with Me
Gerry Henson
TV Show
Nov 2004
Lie with Me
Gerry Henson
TV Show
Aug 2004
Zero Hour
Narrator (Voice)
TV Show
Feb 2004
Bible Mysteries
Himself-Narrator
TV Show
Feb 2004
Sea of Souls
Christopher Chambers
TV Show
Jan 2004
New Tricks
D.C.I. James Larson
Movie
Dec 2003
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Self
Movie
Oct 2003
Listening
Man
Movie
Jun 2003
Otherworld
King Matholwch (voice)
Movie
May 2003
Doctor Who: Shada
The Doctor (voice)
Movie
Jan 2003
Hornblower: Duty
Lieutenant Bush
Movie
Jan 2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
Lieutenant Bush
Movie
Sep 2002
The Biographer
Andrew Morton
Movie
Feb 2002
Queen of the Damned
David Talbot
Movie
Feb 2002
Blood Strangers
DC David Ingram
TV Show
Feb 2002
Blood Strangers
DC David Ingram
TV Show
Oct 2001
Sweet Revenge
Patrick Vine
Movie
Sep 2001
My Kingdom
Dean
TV Show
Jun 2001
Waking the Dead
ACC Tony Nicholson
Movie
Apr 2001
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
Self- Narrator
Movie
Apr 2001
Hornblower: Retribution
Lt. Bush
Movie
Apr 2001
Hornblower: Mutiny
Lieutenant Bush
Movie
Feb 2001
Hotel!
Ben Carter
TV Show
May 2000
Fish
Jonathan Vishnevski
TV Show
Feb 2000
Nature Boy
Steve Witton
Movie
Aug 1999
Withnail and Us
Self
TV Show
Feb 1999
Forgotten
Ben Turner
TV Show
Jan 1999
Holby City
John Gaskell
Movie
Dec 1998
The Dance of Shiva
Captain Greville
TV Show
Oct 1998
Hornblower
William Bush
TV Show
Mar 1998
Our Mutual Friend
Eugene Wrayburn
Movie
Oct 1997
FairyTale: A True Story
Arthur Wright
Movie
Oct 1997
Downtime
Rob
TV Show
Oct 1996
Testament: The Bible in Animation
David (voice)
Movie
Aug 1996
Star Trek Story
Self - Commentary (voice)
Movie
May 1996
Doctor Who
The Doctor
Movie
Apr 1996
Catherine the Great
Potemkin
Movie
Apr 1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Self
Movie
Feb 1996
The One That Got Away
Chris Ryan
Movie
Jan 1996
The Merchant of Venice
Bassanio
TV Show
May 1995
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan
Movie
Jan 1995
The Hanging Gale
Liam Phelan
Movie
Nov 1993
The Three Musketeers
Girard / Jussac
TV Show
Nov 1992
Nice Town
Joe Thompson
Movie
May 1992
Alien³
Golic
Movie
Oct 1991
Afraid of the Dark
Tony
Movie
Sep 1990
Paper Mask
Matthew Harris
Movie
Jan 1990
Drowning in the Shallow End
Colin
Movie
Jan 1990
The Monk
Father Lorenzo Rojas
Movie
Nov 1989
Dealers
Daniel Pascoe
Movie
May 1989
The Rainbow
Anton Skrebensky
Movie
May 1989
Streets of Yesterday
Joseph
Movie
Mar 1989
Tree of Hands
Barry
TV Show
Jan 1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Dr. Peter Lord
Movie
May 1988
The Importance of Being Earnest
John Worthing
Movie
Dec 1987
Empire of the Sun
Lieutenant Price
Movie
Aug 1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
Giovanni Cariani
Movie
Jun 1987
Withnail & I
...& I
TV Show
Aug 1986
The Monocled Mutineer
Percy Toplis
TV Show
Jul 1986
ScreenPlay
Giovanni Cariani
TV Show
Jan 1985
Screen Two
Colin
Movie
Dec 1984
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Mo Morris
TV Show
Oct 1983
Natural World
Narrator
TV Show
Sep 1983
Give us a Break
Mo Morris
Movie
Jan 1983
Gaskin
Graham Gaskin
Movie
Apr 1982
Whistling Wally
Norman
TV Show
Feb 1977
Fish
TV Show
Oct 1970
Play for Today
Norman
TV Show
Feb 1964
Horizon
Himself