Acting · Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK · Born November 14, 1959
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.
MovieTriesverse: Cataclysm
2026
as The Doctor
MovieGood Behaviour
2026
as Richard
MovieThe Marbles
2025
as Lord Byron (voice)
TVBookish
2025
as Mr. Kind
MovieDoctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieDoctor Who at the Proms
2024
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
MovieChurchill’s Forgotten War
2024
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Day of the Sun Dog
2023
as Jaggers
MovieThe Undertaker
2023
as Arthur
MovieTalking Doctor Who
2023
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
MovieMia and the Dragon Princess
2023
as Walsh
MovieDoctor Who Am I
2022
as Self
MovieSwallow Your Dreams
2022
as James
TVAnne
2022
as Malcolm Thornton MP
TVAnnika
2021
as Jake Strathearn
TVGreta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
as Self - Narrator
MovieThe Big Night In
2020
as Self
TVMcDonald & Dodds
2020
as Archie Addington
MovieThe Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
TVVictorian Sensations
2019
as Self - Presenter
MovieThe Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
as Self
MovieSwans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MoviePicasso's Last Stand
2018
as Narrator
MovieOi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018
as Himself
MoviePerplexed Music
2017
as Man
MovieBrakes
2017
as Peter
MovieEgypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
as Narrator (voice)
MovieNero's Sunken City
2017
as Narrator (English Voice)
MovieB&B
2017
as Josh
TVWildest Europe
2017
as Narrator
TVWildest Islands of Indonesia
2016
as Narrator
MovieUnfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016
as Narrator (Voice)
MovieDoctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
MovieChina - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015
as Narrator
MovieAbsence
2015
as Man
The Other Prince William
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieFinding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
as Narrator (voice)
MovieChurchill: When Britain Said No
2015
as Narrator (voice)
MovieShark: Beneath the Surface
2015
as self, narrator
TVShark
2015
as Himself - Narrator
MovieChurchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015
as narrator
MovieSuper Powered Owls
2015
as Narrator
TVWild Sri Lanka
2015
as Paul McGann
TVWildest Middle East
2014
as Narrator
MovieThe Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014
as Himself
TVSecrets of the Castle
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
MovieThe Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014
as Durian
MovieCosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
MovieDoctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
as Self
TVWildest Indochina
2014
as Narrator (voice)
MovieFrance: The Wild Side
2014
as Narrator
MovieCodebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
MovieA Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014
as James Craven
TVThe Musketeers
2014
as St Pierre
MovieApples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014
as Narrator
MovieThe Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as Self
MovieDoctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
MovieDoctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor
MovieJFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
MovieBrady and Hindley: Possession
2013
as Narrator (voice)
MovieArt Is...
2013
as Lulu's Dad
TVDoctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
as Self
TVWildest Islands
2012
as Narrator
TVRipper Street
2012
as Stanley Bone
MovieBritain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
TVThe Bletchley Circle
2012
as John Richards
TVA Mother's Son
2012
as David
Tiger Island
2012
as Narrator
TVWildest Latin America
2012
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieSOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
MovieDigging The Great Escape
2011
as narrator
MovieDoctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011
as Narrator
MovieThe 9/11 Surfer
2011
as Narrator
MovieThe Day John Lennon Died
2010
as Narrator
Godard & Others
2010
as Torrence
TVLuther
2010
as Mark North
TVCollision
2009
as Richard Reeves
TVMoving On
2009
as Phil
MovieLesbian Vampire Killers
2009
as Vicar
MovieDoctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
MovieFables of Forgotten Things
2008
as Clarence
MovieMy Dad Was a Communist
2008
as Narrator
TVThe True Story
2008
as Narrator
MovieThe Ties That Bind Us
2008
as Self - Narrator
MovieDavros Connections
2007
as (archival audio)
TVThe Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
MovieChernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007
as Narrator
TVTrue Dare Kiss
2007
as Nash McKinnon
MovieAlways Crashing in the Same Car
2007
as Bill Mackinnon
MovieWorld of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
TVTripping Over
2006
as Jeremy
MovieIf I Had You
2006
as Philip Andrews
MovieGhosts on the Underground
2005
as Narrator
MovieThe Orangutan King
2005
as Narrator
MovieGypo
2005
as Paul
Psycho
2005
as Narrator
MovieKidnapped
2005
as Colonel MacNab
TVKidnapped
2005
MovieDaphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
TVTwisted Tales
2005
as Phone (voice)
MovieDeath of an Idealist
2005
as Narrator
TVAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Dickie Erskine
MovieLie with Me
2004
as Gerry Henson
TVLie with Me
2004
as Gerry Henson
TVZero Hour
2004
as Narrator (Voice)
TVBible Mysteries
2004
as Himself-Narrator
TVSea of Souls
2004
as Christopher Chambers
TVNew Tricks
2004
as D.C.I. James Larson
MovieWreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
as Self
Listening
2003
as Man
MovieOtherworld
2003
as King Matholwch (voice)
MovieDoctor Who: Shada
2003
as The Doctor (voice)
MovieHornblower: Duty
2003
as Lieutenant Bush
MovieHornblower: Loyalty
2003
as Lieutenant Bush
MovieThe Biographer
2002
as Andrew Morton
MovieQueen of the Damned
2002
as David Talbot
MovieBlood Strangers
2002
as DC David Ingram
TVBlood Strangers
2002
as DC David Ingram
Sweet Revenge
2001
as Patrick Vine
MovieMy Kingdom
2001
as Dean
TVWaking the Dead
2001
as ACC Tony Nicholson
MovieLike a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001
as Self- Narrator
MovieHornblower: Retribution
2001
as Lt. Bush
MovieHornblower: Mutiny
2001
as Lieutenant Bush
MovieHotel!
2001
as Ben Carter
Fish
2000
as Jonathan Vishnevski
TVNature Boy
2000
as Steve Witton
MovieWithnail and Us
1999
as Self
TVForgotten
1999
as Ben Turner
TVHolby City
1999
as John Gaskell
MovieThe Dance of Shiva
1998
as Captain Greville
TVHornblower
1998
as William Bush
TVOur Mutual Friend
1998
as Eugene Wrayburn
MovieFairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Arthur Wright
MovieDowntime
1997
as Rob
TVTestament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as David (voice)
MovieStar Trek Story
1996
as Self - Commentary (voice)
MovieDoctor Who
1996
as The Doctor
MovieCatherine the Great
1996
as Potemkin
MovieBidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
as Self
MovieThe One That Got Away
1996
as Chris Ryan
MovieThe Merchant of Venice
1996
as Bassanio
TVThe Hanging Gale
1995
as Liam Phelan
MovieThe Hanging Gale
1995
as Liam Phelan
MovieThe Three Musketeers
1993
as Girard / Jussac
Nice Town
1992
as Joe Thompson
MovieAlien³
1992
as Golic
MovieAfraid of the Dark
1991
as Tony
MoviePaper Mask
1990
as Matthew Harris
MovieDrowning in the Shallow End
1990
as Colin
MovieThe Monk
1990
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
MovieDealers
1989
as Daniel Pascoe
MovieThe Rainbow
1989
as Anton Skrebensky
MovieStreets of Yesterday
1989
as Joseph
MovieTree of Hands
1989
as Barry
TVAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Dr. Peter Lord
MovieThe Importance of Being Earnest
1988
as John Worthing
MovieEmpire of the Sun
1987
as Lieutenant Price
MovieCariani and the Courtesans
1987
as Giovanni Cariani
MovieWithnail & I
1987
as ...& I
TVThe Monocled Mutineer
1986
as Percy Toplis
Sunday Premiere
1986
as Percy Toplis
TVScreenPlay
1986
as Giovanni Cariani
TVScreen Two
1985
as Colin
MovieGive Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
as Mo Morris
TVNatural World
1983
as Narrator
TVGive us a Break
1983
as Mo Morris
MovieGaskin
1983
as Graham Gaskin
MovieWhistling Wally
1982
as Norman
TVFish
1977
TVPlay for Today
1970
as Norman
TVHorizon
1964
as Himself
