Acting
Paul McGann
Born 1959-11-14
Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Department: Acting
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
Prominent works featuring Paul McGann
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Alien³
1992
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Empire of the Sun
1987
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Luther
2010
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
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Queen of the Damned
2002
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The Three Musketeers
1993
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Holby City
1999
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
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Play for Today
1970
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Withnail & I
1987
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (174 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Triesverse: Cataclysm | The Doctor | Movie | 2026 |
 | Good Behaviour | Richard | Movie | 2026 |
 | The Marbles | Lord Byron (voice) | Movie | 2025 |
 | Bookish | Mr. Kind | TV Series | 2025 |
 | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War | The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | Movie | 2025 |
 | Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | Movie | 2024 |
 | Churchill’s Forgotten War | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2024 |
 | The Day of the Sun Dog | Jaggers | Movie | 2023 |
 | The Undertaker | Arthur | Movie | 2023 |
 | Talking Doctor Who | Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | Movie | 2023 |
 | Mia and the Dragon Princess | Walsh | Movie | 2023 |
 | Doctor Who Am I | Self | Movie | 2022 |
 | Swallow Your Dreams | James | Movie | 2022 |
 | Anne | Malcolm Thornton MP | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Annika | Jake Strathearn | TV Series | 2021 |
 | Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World | Self - Narrator | TV Series | 2021 |
 | The Big Night In | Self | Movie | 2020 |
 | McDonald & Dodds | Archie Addington | TV Series | 2020 |
 | The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2019 |
 | Victorian Sensations | Self - Presenter | TV Series | 2019 |
 | The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On | Self | Movie | 2019 |
 | Swans: Mystery of the Missing | Self - Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2019 |
 | Picasso's Last Stand | Narrator | Movie | 2018 |
 | Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land | Himself | Movie | 2018 |
 | Perplexed Music | Man | Movie | 2017 |
 | Brakes | Peter | Movie | 2017 |
 | Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2017 |
 | Nero's Sunken City | Narrator (English Voice) | Movie | 2017 |
 | B&B | Josh | Movie | 2017 |
 | Wildest Europe | Narrator | TV Series | 2017 |
 | Wildest Islands of Indonesia | Narrator | TV Series | 2016 |
 | China: Between Clouds and Dreams | Commissioning Editor | TV Series | 2016 |
 | Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack | Narrator (Voice) | Movie | 2016 |
 | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song | The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited) | Movie | 2015 |
 | China - Treasures of the Jade Empire | Narrator | Movie | 2015 |
 | Absence | Man | Movie | 2015 |
| The Other Prince William | Self - Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2015 | |
 | Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2015 |
 | Churchill: When Britain Said No | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2015 |
 | Shark: Beneath the Surface | self, narrator | Movie | 2015 |
 | Shark | Himself - Narrator | TV Series | 2015 |
 | Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace | narrator | Movie | 2015 |
 | Super Powered Owls | Narrator | Movie | 2015 |
 | Wild Sri Lanka | Paul McGann | TV Series | 2015 |
 | Wildest Middle East | Narrator | TV Series | 2014 |
 | The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story | Himself | Movie | 2014 |
 | Secrets of the Castle | Narrator (Voice) | TV Series | 2014 |
 | The Minister of Chance: Prologue | Durian | Movie | 2014 |
 | Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race | Narrator (Voice) | Movie | 2014 |
 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison | Self | Movie | 2014 |
 | Wildest Indochina | Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 2014 |
 | France: The Wild Side | Narrator | Movie | 2014 |
 | Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2014 |
 | A Little Place Off the Edgware Road | James Craven | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Musketeers | St Pierre | TV Series | 2014 |
| The Musketeers | Saint Pierre | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting | Narrator | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | Movie | 2013 |
 | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | Movie | 2013 |
 | Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | The Doctor | Movie | 2013 |
 | JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence | Himself - Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2013 |
 | Brady and Hindley: Possession | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2013 |
 | Art Is... | Lulu's Dad | Movie | 2013 |
 | Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | Self | TV Series | 2013 |
 | Wildest Islands | Narrator | TV Series | 2012 |
 | Ripper Street | Stanley Bone | TV Series | 2012 |
 | Britain's Greatest Codebreaker | Himself - Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2012 |
 | The Bletchley Circle | John Richards | TV Series | 2012 |
 | A Mother's Son | David | TV Series | 2012 |
| Tiger Island | Narrator | Movie | 2012 | |
 | Wildest Latin America | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 2012 |
 | SOS: The Titanic Inquiry | Sir Rufus Isaacs | Movie | 2012 |
 | Digging The Great Escape | narrator | Movie | 2011 |
 | Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2011 |
| Gadaffi and the IRA | Narrator | Movie | 2011 | |
 | The 9/11 Surfer | Narrator | Movie | 2011 |
 | The Day John Lennon Died | Narrator | Movie | 2010 |
| Godard & Others | Torrence | Movie | 2010 | |
 | Luther | Mark North | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Collision | Richard Reeves | TV Series | 2009 |
 | Moving On | Phil | TV Series | 2009 |
| Moving On | Director | TV Series | 2009 |
 | Lesbian Vampire Killers | Vicar | Movie | 2009 |
 | Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | Movie | 2008 |
 | Fables of Forgotten Things | Clarence | Movie | 2008 |
 | My Dad Was a Communist | Narrator | Movie | 2008 |
 | The True Story | Narrator | TV Series | 2008 |
 | The Ties That Bind Us | Self - Narrator | Movie | 2008 |
 | Davros Connections | (archival audio) | Movie | 2007 |
 | The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest | Himself - Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 2007 |
 | Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover | Narrator | Movie | 2007 |
 | True Dare Kiss | Nash McKinnon | TV Series | 2007 |
 | Always Crashing in the Same Car | Bill Mackinnon | Movie | 2007 |
 | World of Compulsive Hoarders | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2007 |
 | Tripping Over | Jeremy | TV Series | 2006 |
 | If I Had You | Philip Andrews | Movie | 2006 |
 | Ghosts on the Underground | Narrator | Movie | 2005 |
 | The Orangutan King | Narrator | Movie | 2005 |
 | Gypo | Paul | Movie | 2005 |
| Psycho | Narrator | TV Series | 2005 | |
 | Kidnapped | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Daphne Ashbrook in the UK | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2005 |
 | Twisted Tales | Phone (voice) | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Death of an Idealist | Narrator | Movie | 2005 |
 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Dickie Erskine | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Lie with Me | Gerry Henson | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Zero Hour | Narrator (Voice) | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Bible Mysteries | Himself-Narrator | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Sea of Souls | Christopher Chambers | TV Series | 2004 |
 | New Tricks | D.C.I. James Larson | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' | Self | Movie | 2003 |
| Listening | Man | Movie | 2003 | |
 | Otherworld | King Matholwch (voice) | Movie | 2003 |
 | Doctor Who: Shada | The Doctor (voice) | Movie | 2003 |
 | Hornblower: Duty | Lieutenant Bush | Movie | 2003 |
 | Hornblower: Loyalty | Lieutenant Bush | Movie | 2003 |
 | The Biographer | Andrew Morton | Movie | 2002 |
 | Queen of the Damned | David Talbot | Movie | 2002 |
 | Blood Strangers | DC David Ingram | TV Series | 2002 |
| Sweet Revenge | Patrick Vine | TV Series | 2001 | |
 | My Kingdom | Dean | Movie | 2001 |
 | Waking the Dead | ACC Tony Nicholson | TV Series | 2001 |
 | Real Crime | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2001 |
 | Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story | Self- Narrator | Movie | 2001 |
 | Hornblower: Retribution | Lt. Bush | Movie | 2001 |
 | Hornblower: Mutiny | Lieutenant Bush | Movie | 2001 |
 | Hotel! | Ben Carter | Movie | 2001 |
| Fish | Jonathan Vishnevski | TV Series | 2000 | |
 | Nature Boy | Steve Witton | TV Series | 2000 |
 | Withnail and Us | Self | Movie | 1999 |
 | Forgotten | Ben Turner | TV Series | 1999 |
 | Holby City | John Gaskell | TV Series | 1999 |
 | The Dance of Shiva | Captain Greville | Movie | 1998 |
 | Hornblower | William Bush | TV Series | 1998 |
 | Our Mutual Friend | Eugene Wrayburn | TV Series | 1998 |
 | FairyTale: A True Story | Arthur Wright | Movie | 1997 |
 | Downtime | Rob | Movie | 1997 |
 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | David (voice) | TV Series | 1996 |
 | Star Trek Story | Self - Commentary (voice) | Movie | 1996 |
 | Doctor Who | The Doctor | Movie | 1996 |
 | Catherine the Great | Potemkin | Movie | 1996 |
 | Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Self | Movie | 1996 |
 | The One That Got Away | Chris Ryan | Movie | 1996 |
 | The Merchant of Venice | Bassanio | Movie | 1996 |
 | The Hanging Gale | Liam Phelan | TV Series | 1995 |
 | The Hanging Gale | Liam Phelan | Movie | 1995 |
 | The Three Musketeers | Girard / Jussac | Movie | 1993 |
| Nice Town | Joe Thompson | TV Series | 1992 | |
 | Alien³ | Golic | Movie | 1992 |
 | Afraid of the Dark | Tony | Movie | 1991 |
 | Paper Mask | Matthew Harris | Movie | 1990 |
 | Drowning in the Shallow End | Colin | Movie | 1990 |
 | The Monk | Father Lorenzo Rojas | Movie | 1990 |
 | Dealers | Daniel Pascoe | Movie | 1989 |
 | The Rainbow | Anton Skrebensky | Movie | 1989 |
 | Streets of Yesterday | Joseph | Movie | 1989 |
 | Tree of Hands | Barry | Movie | 1989 |
 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Dr. Peter Lord | TV Series | 1989 |
 | The Importance of Being Earnest | John Worthing | Movie | 1988 |
 | Empire of the Sun | Lieutenant Price | Movie | 1987 |
 | Cariani and the Courtesans | Giovanni Cariani | Movie | 1987 |
 | Withnail & I | ...& I | Movie | 1987 |
 | The Monocled Mutineer | Percy Toplis | TV Series | 1986 |
| Sunday Premiere | Percy Toplis | TV Series | 1986 | |
 | ScreenPlay | Giovanni Cariani | TV Series | 1986 |
 | Screen Two | Colin | TV Series | 1985 |
 | Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle | Mo Morris | Movie | 1984 |
 | Natural World | Narrator | TV Series | 1983 |
 | Give us a Break | Mo Morris | TV Series | 1983 |
 | Gaskin | Graham Gaskin | Movie | 1983 |
 | Whistling Wally | Norman | Movie | 1982 |
 | Fish | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1977 |
 | Play for Today | Norman | TV Series | 1970 |
 | Horizon | Himself | TV Series | 1964 |