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
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Marbles
as Lord Byron (voice)
Bookish
TVas Mr. Kind• 2 eps
2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War
as Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
as The Doctor
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023
Mia and the Dragon Princess
as Walsh
The Day of the Sun Dog
as Jaggers
The Undertaker
as Arthur
Talking Doctor Who
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2022
Doctor Who Am I
as Self
Swallow Your Dreams
as James
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
as The Doctor
McDonald & Dodds
TVas Archie Addington• 1 eps
Anne
TVas Malcolm Thornton MP
2021
Annika
TVas Jake Strathearn
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
TVas Self - Narrator
2020
The Big Night In
as Self
2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
as Narrator (voice)
Victorian Sensations
TVas Self - Presenter
2018
Picasso's Last Stand
as Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
as Himself
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
Perplexed Music
as Man
Wildest Europe
TVas Narrator
2016
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
as Narrator (Voice)
The Musketeers
TVas Saint Pierre / St Pierre• 1 eps
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
TVas Narrator
Moving On
TVDirector• 1 eps
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
TVCommissioning Editor
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
Absence
as Man
Churchill: When Britain Said No
as Narrator (voice)
The Other Prince William
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
as Narrator (voice)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
as Narrator
Shark: Beneath the Surface
as self, narrator
Shark
TVas Himself - Narrator• 3 eps
Wild Sri Lanka
TVas Paul McGann
2014
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
as Narrator (Voice)
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
as James Craven
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
as Durian
France: The Wild Side
as Narrator
Secrets of the Castle
TVas Narrator (Voice)• 5 eps
Wildest Indochina
TVas Narrator (voice)
Wildest Middle East
TVas Narrator
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)
Brady and Hindley: Possession
as Narrator (voice)
Ripper Street
TVas Stanley Bone• 1 eps
Moving On
TVas Phil• 1 eps
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
TVas Self
2012
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
Tiger Island
as Narrator
The Bletchley Circle
TVas John Richards
A Mother's Son
TVas David• 2 eps
Wildest Latin America
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)
Wildest Islands
TVas Narrator
2011
Digging The Great Escape
as narrator
The 9/11 Surfer
as Narrator
Gadaffi and the IRA
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)
Fables of Forgotten Things
as Clarence
The Ties That Bind Us
as Self - Narrator
2007
Davros Connections
as (archival audio)
Always Crashing in the Same Car
as Bill Mackinnon
True Dare Kiss
TVas Nash McKinnon
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
TVas Himself - Narrator (voice)
2006
If I Had You
as Philip Andrews
Tripping Over
TVas Jeremy
Agatha Christie's Marple
TVas Dickie Erskine• 1 eps
2005
Gypo
as Paul
Kidnapped
as Colonel MacNab
Ghosts on the Underground
as Narrator
The Orangutan King
as Narrator
Death of an Idealist
as Narrator
Psycho
TVas Narrator
Natural World
TVas Narrator• 5 eps
Twisted Tales
TVas Phone (voice)
2004
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Duty
as Lieutenant Bush
Listening
as Man
Otherworld
as King Matholwch (voice)
Doctor Who: Shada
as The Doctor (voice)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TVas Dr. Peter Lord• 1 eps
2002
Queen of the Damned
as David Talbot
The Biographer
as Andrew Morton
Blood Strangers
as DC David Ingram
Hornblower
TVas William Bush• 4 eps
2001
My Kingdom
as Dean
Hornblower: Retribution
as Lt. Bush
Hotel!
as Ben Carter
Hornblower: Mutiny
as Lieutenant Bush
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
as Self- Narrator
Sweet Revenge
TVas Patrick Vine
2000
Fish
TVas Jonathan Vishnevski
Nature Boy
TVas Steve Witton
1999
1998
The Dance of Shiva
as Captain Greville
Our Mutual Friend
TVas Eugene Wrayburn
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
Star Trek Story
as Self - Commentary (voice)
Testament: The Bible in Animation
TVas David (voice)• 1 eps
1995
The Hanging Gale
as Liam Phelan
The Hanging Gale
TVas Liam Phelan
1993
The Three Musketeers
as Girard / Jussac
1991
Afraid of the Dark
as Tony
1990
1989
Dealers
as Daniel Pascoe
The Rainbow
as Anton Skrebensky
Tree of Hands
as Barry
Streets of Yesterday
as Joseph
1988
The Importance of Being Earnest
as John Worthing
1987
Empire of the Sun
as Lieutenant Price
Cariani and the Courtesans
as Giovanni Cariani
Withnail & I
as ...& I
1986
The Monocled Mutineer
TVas Percy Toplis
1984
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
as Mo Morris
1983
Gaskin
as Graham Gaskin
Give us a Break
TVas Mo Morris
1982
Whistling Wally
as Norman
Play for Today
TVas Norman• 1 eps
1977
1964
Horizon
TVas Himself