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Paul McGann
Paul McGann

Paul McGann

ActingBorn November 14, 1959 (age 66)Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

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.

Filmography

2026
Good Behaviour

as Richard

Movie
2025
The Marbles

as Lord Byron (voice)

Movie
2025
Bookish

as Mr. Kind

TV
2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie
2024
Doctor Who at the Proms

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Movie
2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2023Movie
2023Movie
2023
Talking Doctor Who

as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Movie
2022Movie
2022Movie
2022
Anne

as Malcolm Thornton MP

TV
2021
Annika

as Jake Strathearn

TV
2020Movie
2020
McDonald & Dodds

as Archie Addington

TV
2019
Victorian Sensations

as Self - Presenter

TV
2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2018Movie
2017Movie
2017
Brakes

as Peter

Movie
2017Movie
2017
Nero's Sunken City

as Narrator (English Voice)

Movie
2017
B&B

as Josh

Movie
2017
Wildest Europe

as Narrator

TV
2016Movie
2015
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

Movie
2015
Absence

as Man

Movie
2015
The Other Prince William

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2015Movie
2015Movie
2015Movie
2015
Shark

as Himself - Narrator

TV
2015Movie
2015
Wild Sri Lanka

as Paul McGann

TV
2014TV
2014
Secrets of the Castle

as Narrator (Voice)

TV
2014Movie
2014
Wildest Indochina

as Narrator (voice)

TV
2014Movie
2014Movie
2014
The Musketeers

as St Pierre

TV
2014
The Musketeers

as Saint Pierre

TV
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Movie
2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2013Movie
2013
Art Is...

as Lulu's Dad

Movie
2012
Wildest Islands

as Narrator

TV
2012
Ripper Street

as Stanley Bone

TV
2012
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2012
The Bletchley Circle

as John Richards

TV
2012TV
2012
Tiger Island

as Narrator

Movie
2012
Wildest Latin America

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

as Sir Rufus Isaacs

Movie
2011Movie
2011Movie
2011
The 9/11 Surfer

as Narrator

Movie
2010Movie
2010
Godard & Others

as Torrence

Movie
2010
Luther

as Mark North

TV
2009
Collision

as Richard Reeves

TV
2009
Moving On

as Phil

TV
2009Movie
2008
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Movie
2008Movie
2008Movie
2008
The Ties That Bind Us

as Self - Narrator

Movie
2007
Davros Connections

as (archival audio)

Movie
2007
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

TV
2007
True Dare Kiss

as Nash McKinnon

TV
2007Movie
2006
Tripping Over

as Jeremy

TV
2006
If I Had You

as Philip Andrews

Movie
2005Movie
2005Movie
2005
Gypo

as Paul

Movie
2005
Psycho

as Narrator

TV
2005
Kidnapped

as Colonel MacNab

Movie
2005TV
2005
Twisted Tales

as Phone (voice)

TV
2005Movie
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Dickie Erskine

TV
2004
Lie with Me

as Gerry Henson

Movie
2004
Lie with Me

as Gerry Henson

TV
2004
Zero Hour

as Narrator (Voice)

TV
2004
Bible Mysteries

as Himself-Narrator

TV
2004
Sea of Souls

as Christopher Chambers

TV
2004
New Tricks

as D.C.I. James Larson

TV
2003
Listening

as Man

Movie
2003
Otherworld

as King Matholwch (voice)

Movie
2003
Doctor Who: Shada

as The Doctor (voice)

Movie
2003
Hornblower: Duty

as Lieutenant Bush

Movie
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty

as Lieutenant Bush

Movie
2002
The Biographer

as Andrew Morton

Movie
2002
Queen of the Damned

as David Talbot

Movie
2002
Blood Strangers

as DC David Ingram

Movie
2002
Blood Strangers

as DC David Ingram

TV
2001
Sweet Revenge

as Patrick Vine

TV
2001
My Kingdom

as Dean

Movie
2001
Waking the Dead

as ACC Tony Nicholson

TV
2001Movie
2001
Hornblower: Mutiny

as Lieutenant Bush

Movie
2001
Hotel!

as Ben Carter

Movie
2000
Fish

as Jonathan Vishnevski

TV
2000
Nature Boy

as Steve Witton

TV
1999Movie
1999
Forgotten

as Ben Turner

TV
1999
Holby City

as John Gaskell

TV
1998
The Dance of Shiva

as Captain Greville

Movie
1998
Hornblower

as William Bush

TV
1998
Our Mutual Friend

as Eugene Wrayburn

TV
1997
FairyTale: A True Story

as Arthur Wright

Movie
1997
Downtime

as Rob

Movie
1996TV
1996
Star Trek Story

as Self - Commentary (voice)

Movie
1996
Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Movie
1996Movie
1996Movie
1996Movie
1995
The Hanging Gale

as Liam Phelan

TV
1995
The Hanging Gale

as Liam Phelan

Movie
1993
The Three Musketeers

as Girard / Jussac

Movie
1992
Nice Town

as Joe Thompson

TV
1992
Alien³

as Golic

Movie
1991Movie
1990
Paper Mask

as Matthew Harris

Movie
1990
The Monk

as Father Lorenzo Rojas

Movie
1989
Dealers

as Daniel Pascoe

Movie
1989
The Rainbow

as Anton Skrebensky

Movie
1989Movie
1989Movie
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Dr. Peter Lord

TV
1988Movie
1987
Empire of the Sun

as Lieutenant Price

Movie
1987
Cariani and the Courtesans

as Giovanni Cariani

Movie
1987
Withnail & I

as ...& I

Movie
1986
The Monocled Mutineer

as Percy Toplis

TV
1986
ScreenPlay

as Giovanni Cariani

TV
1985
Screen Two

as Colin

TV
1983
Natural World

as Narrator

TV
1983
Give us a Break

as Mo Morris

TV
1983
Gaskin

as Graham Gaskin

Movie
1982Movie
1977TV
1970TV
1964
Horizon

as Himself

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayNovember 14, 1959
Place of BirthKensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Popularity1.2