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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 14, 1959
Place of Birth
Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Paul McGann
1.3 Popularity
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
0.0
Lord Byron (voice)
The Marbles
2025
6.7
Mr. Kind
Bookish
2025
5.3
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
0.0
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
2024
7.2
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
8.0
Narrator (voice)
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024
0.0
Jaggers
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023
5.0
Arthur
The Undertaker
2023
5.0
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Talking Doctor Who
2023
6.6
Walsh
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
Credits
The Marbles
as Lord Byron (voice)
2025
0.0
Bookish
as Mr. Kind
2025
6.7
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
5.3
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
as The Doctor
2024
0.0
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024
7.2
Churchill’s Forgotten War
as Narrator (voice)
2024
8.0
The Day of the Sun Dog
as Jaggers
2023
0.0
The Undertaker
as Arthur
2023
5.0
Talking Doctor Who
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023
5.0
Mia and the Dragon Princess
as Walsh
2023
6.6
Doctor Who Am I
as Self
2022
4.8
Swallow Your Dreams
as James
2022
10.0
Anne
as Malcolm Thornton MP
2022
7.1
Annika
as Jake Strathearn
2021
7.2
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
as Self - Narrator
2021
3.9
McDonald & Dodds
as Archie Addington
2020
7.6
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
2.0
Victorian Sensations
as Self - Presenter
2019
0.0
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
as Self
2019
7.8
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
as Narrator (voice)
2019
10.0
Picasso's Last Stand
as Narrator
2018
0.0
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
as Himself
2018
0.0
Brakes
as Peter
2017
5.6
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
as Narrator (voice)
2017
8.0
Nero's Sunken City
as Narrator (English Voice)
2017
4.3
B&B
as Josh
2017
6.3
Wildest Europe
as Narrator
2017
0.0
Perplexed Music
as Man
2017
0.0
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
as Narrator
2016
8.0
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
as Narrator (Voice)
2016
0.0
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015
8.0
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
as Narrator
2015
8.7
Absence
as Man
2015
7.0
🎬
The Other Prince William
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
0.0
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
as Narrator (voice)
2015
9.0
Churchill: When Britain Said No
as Narrator (voice)
2015
8.0
Shark: Beneath the Surface
as self, narrator
2015
0.0
Shark
as Himself - Narrator
2015
8.3
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
as narrator
2015
10.0
Super Powered Owls
as Narrator
2015
0.0
Wild Sri Lanka
as Paul McGann
2015
7.8
Wildest Middle East
as Narrator
2014
9.0
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
as Himself
2014
5.9
Secrets of the Castle
as Narrator (Voice)
2014
9.4
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
as Durian
2014
0.0
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
as Narrator (Voice)
2014
7.4
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
as Self
2014
0.0
Wildest Indochina
as Narrator (voice)
2014
8.6
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
0.0
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
as James Craven
2014
0.0
The Musketeers
as St Pierre
2014
7.0
The Musketeers
as Saint Pierre
2014
7.0
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
as Narrator
2014
8.5
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013
8.2
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as Self
2013
7.8
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as The Doctor
2013
8.0
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013
7.3
Brady and Hindley: Possession
as Narrator (voice)
2013
6.5
Art Is...
as Lulu's Dad
2013
0.0
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
as Self
2013
6.4
Wildest Islands
as Narrator
2012
8.1
Ripper Street
as Stanley Bone
2012
7.4
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012
5.9
The Bletchley Circle
as John Richards
2012
7.6
A Mother's Son
as David
2012
6.8
🎬
Tiger Island
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Wildest Latin America
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2012
8.0
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
2012
6.4
Digging The Great Escape
as narrator
2011
0.0
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
8.0
The 9/11 Surfer
as Narrator
2011
6.0
The Day John Lennon Died
as Narrator
2010
8.0
🎬
Godard & Others
as Torrence
2010
5.2
Luther
as Mark North
2010
7.9
Collision
as Richard Reeves
2009
7.0
Moving On
as Phil
2009
7.1
Lesbian Vampire Killers
as Vicar
2009
5.2
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2008
7.4
Fables of Forgotten Things
as Clarence
2008
4.0
My Dad Was a Communist
as Narrator
2008
0.0
The Ties That Bind Us
as Self - Narrator
2008
0.0
Davros Connections
as (archival audio)
2007
0.0
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2007
7.0
True Dare Kiss
as Nash McKinnon
2007
7.0
Always Crashing in the Same Car
as Bill Mackinnon
2007
6.7
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
0.0
Tripping Over
as Jeremy
2006
0.0
If I Had You
as Philip Andrews
2006
7.0
Ghosts on the Underground
as Narrator
2005
7.0
The Orangutan King
as Narrator
2005
10.0
Gypo
as Paul
2005
5.2
🎬
Psycho
as Narrator
2005
0.0
Kidnapped
as Colonel MacNab
2005
0.0
Kidnapped
2005
6.0
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
0.0
Twisted Tales
as Phone (voice)
2005
7.0
Death of an Idealist
as Narrator
2005
0.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Dickie Erskine
2004
7.8
Lie with Me
as Gerry Henson
2004
4.5
Bible Mysteries
as Himself-Narrator
2004
7.5
Sea of Souls
as Christopher Chambers
2004
7.6
New Tricks
as D.C.I. James Larson
2004
7.4
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
as Self
2003
7.8
🎬
Listening
as Man
2003
7.3
Otherworld
as King Matholwch (voice)
2003
5.1
Doctor Who: Shada
as The Doctor (voice)
2003
7.0
Hornblower: Duty
as Lieutenant Bush
2003
7.3
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Lieutenant Bush
2003
7.1
The Biographer
as Andrew Morton
2002
0.0
Queen of the Damned
as David Talbot
2002
6.1
Blood Strangers
as DC David Ingram
2002
4.8
🎬
Sweet Revenge
as Patrick Vine
2001
0.0
My Kingdom
as Dean
2001
5.1
Waking the Dead
as ACC Tony Nicholson
2001
7.2
Hornblower: Retribution
as Lt. Bush
2001
7.3
Hornblower: Mutiny
as Lieutenant Bush
2001
7.3
Hotel!
as Ben Carter
2001
4.5
🎬
Fish
as Jonathan Vishnevski
2000
0.0
Nature Boy
as Steve Witton
2000
8.0
Withnail and Us
as Self
1999
6.2
Forgotten
as Ben Turner
1999
7.3
Holby City
as John Gaskell
1999
5.8
The Dance of Shiva
as Captain Greville
1998
0.0
Hornblower
as William Bush
1998
7.7
Our Mutual Friend
as Eugene Wrayburn
1998
7.8
FairyTale: A True Story
as Arthur Wright
1997
6.4
Downtime
as Rob
1997
5.0
Testament: The Bible in Animation
as David (voice)
1996
6.4
Star Trek Story
as Self - Commentary (voice)
1996
0.8
Doctor Who
as The Doctor
1996
6.2
Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
1996
5.5
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
as Self
1996
6.0
The One That Got Away
as Chris Ryan
1996
5.8
The Merchant of Venice
as Bassanio
1996
1.0
The Hanging Gale
as Liam Phelan
1995
4.3
The Hanging Gale
as Liam Phelan
1995
0.0
The Three Musketeers
as Girard / Jussac
1993
6.4
Nice Town
as Joe Thompson
1992
5.5
Alien³
as Golic
1992
6.4
Afraid of the Dark
as Tony
1991
5.4
Paper Mask
as Matthew Harris
1990
5.6
Drowning in the Shallow End
as Colin
1990
0.0
The Monk
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
1990
1.7
Dealers
as Daniel Pascoe
1989
4.8
The Rainbow
as Anton Skrebensky
1989
5.6
Streets of Yesterday
as Joseph
1989
7.0
Tree of Hands
as Barry
1989
0.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Dr. Peter Lord
1989
8.2
The Importance of Being Earnest
as John Worthing
1988
4.7
Empire of the Sun
as Lieutenant Price
1987
7.5
Cariani and the Courtesans
as Giovanni Cariani
1987
0.0
Withnail & I
as ...& I
1987
7.2
The Monocled Mutineer
as Percy Toplis
1986
7.0
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
as Mo Morris
1984
0.0
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
7.2
Give us a Break
as Mo Morris
1983
6.5
Gaskin
as Graham Gaskin
1983
0.0
Whistling Wally
as Norman
1982
0.0
Fish
1977
5.7
Play for Today
as Norman
1970
6.3
Horizon
as Himself
1964
7.4