Paul McGann
Acting1959Kensington, 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.
Known For
Acting History
2025
Bookish
TVas Mr. Kind• 2 eps
2022
McDonald & Dodds
TVas Archie Addington• 1 eps
2021
Annika
TVas Jake Strathearn
2017
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
as Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City
as Narrator (English Voice)
Brakes
as Peter
B and B
as Josh
2016
The Musketeers
TVas Saint Pierre / St Pierre• 1 eps
Moving On
TVDirector• 1 eps
2015
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
as narrator
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Super Powered Owls
as Narrator
Shark
TVas Himself - Narrator• 3 eps
2014
Secrets of the Castle
TVas Narrator (Voice)• 5 eps
Wildest Indochina
TVas Narrator (voice)
2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as The Doctor
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as Self
Art Is...
as Lulu's Dad
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Ripper Street
TVas Stanley Bone• 1 eps
Moving On
TVas Phil• 1 eps
2012
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
The Bletchley Circle
TVas John Richards
A Mother's Son
TVas David• 2 eps
2011
Digging The Great Escape
as narrator
Waking the Dead
TVas ACC Tony Nicholson• 2 eps
New Tricks
TVas D.C.I. James Larson• 1 eps
2010
2009
Lesbian Vampire Killers
as Vicar
Collision
TVas Richard Reeves
2008
My Dad Was a Communist
as Narrator
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2007
Davros Connections
as (archival audio)
Always Crashing in the Same Car
as Bill Mackinnon
2006
If I Had You
as Philip Andrews
Agatha Christie's Marple
TVas Dickie Erskine• 1 eps
2005
Gypo
as Paul
Kidnapped
as Colonel MacNab
Natural World
TVas Narrator• 5 eps
Twisted Tales
TVas Phone (voice)
2004
Sea of Souls
TVas Christopher Chambers
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Duty
as Lieutenant Bush
Listening
as Man
Otherworld
as King Matholwch (voice)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TVas Dr. Peter Lord• 1 eps
2002
2001
My Kingdom
as Dean
Hornblower: Retribution
as Lt. Bush
Hotel!
as Ben Carter
Hornblower: Mutiny
as Lieutenant Bush
2000
Fish
TVas Jonathan Vishnevski
1999
Withnail and Us
as Self
Holby City
TVas John Gaskell
1997
FairyTale: A True Story
as Arthur Wright
Downtime
as Rob
1996
Doctor Who
as The Doctor
The One That Got Away
as Chris Ryan
Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
as Self
The Merchant of Venice
as Bassanio
Testament: The Bible in Animation
TVas David (voice)• 1 eps
1993
The Three Musketeers
as Girard / Jussac
1992
Alien³
as Golic
1991
Afraid of the Dark
as Tony
1990
Paper Mask
as Matthew Harris
The Monk
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
1989
Dealers
as Daniel Pascoe
The Rainbow
as Anton Skrebensky
1988
The Importance of Being Earnest
as John Worthing
1987
Withnail & I
as ...& I
Empire of the Sun
as Lieutenant Price
1982
Whistling Wally
as Norman
Play for Today
TVas Norman• 1 eps
1964
Horizon
TVas Himself