Paul McGann
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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
Credits
Alien³ (1992)
as Golic
Empire of the Sun (1987)
as Lieutenant Price
The Three Musketeers (1993)
as Girard / Jussac
Queen of the Damned (2002)
as David Talbot
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land (2018)
as Himself
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Withnail & I (1987)
as ...& I
Doctor Who (1996)
as The Doctor
Picasso's Last Stand (2018)
as Narrator
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013)
as Self
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)
as Vicar
FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
as Arthur Wright
Good Behaviour (2026)
as Richard
Doctor Who Am I (2022)
as Self
The Importance of Being Earnest (1988)
as John Worthing
The Big Night In (2020)
as Self
The Ties That Bind Us (2008)
as Self - Narrator
Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' (2003)
as Self
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Afraid of the Dark (1992)
as Tony
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War (2025)
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Swans: Mystery of the Missing (2019)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Undertaker (2023)
as Arthur
Catherine the Great (1996)
as Potemkin
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
as The Doctor
Mia and the Dragon Princess (2023)
as Walsh
Downtime (1997)
as Rob
The Biographer (2002)
as Andrew Morton
Digging The Great Escape (2011)
as narrator
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary (1996)
as Self
The Day John Lennon Died (2010)
as Narrator
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
as Lieutenant Bush
Star Trek Story (1996)
as Self - Commentary (voice)
The Rainbow (1989)
as Anton Skrebensky
Churchill’s Forgotten War (2024)
as Narrator (voice)
The One That Got Away (1996)
as Chris Ryan
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison (2014)
as Self
Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
as Lt. Bush
The Marbles (2025)
as Lord Byron (voice)
Drowning in the Shallow End (1990)
as Colin
Cariani and the Courtesans (1987)
as Giovanni Cariani
The Minister of Chance: Prologue (2014)
as Durian
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius (2014)
Actor
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker (2012)
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Dealers (1989)
as Daniel Pascoe
The 9/11 Surfer (2011)
as Narrator
Paper Mask (1990)
as Matthew Harris
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle (1984)
as Mo Morris
The Merchant of Venice (1996)
as Bassanio
If I Had You (2006)
as Philip Andrews
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story (2001)
as Self- Narrator
Listening (2003)
as Man
The Dance of Shiva (1998)
as Captain Greville
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time (2011)
Actor
Fables of Forgotten Things (2008)
as Clarence
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry (2012)
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years (2019)
Actor
B&B (2017)
as Josh
Tiger Island (2012)
as Narrator
Talking Doctor Who (2023)
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story (2014)
as Himself
Death of an Idealist (2005)
as Narrator
The Day of the Sun Dog (2023)
as Jaggers
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (2015)
as narrator
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (2014)
as James Craven
Always Crashing in the Same Car (2007)
as Bill Mackinnon
Godard & Others (2010)
as Torrence
Brady and Hindley: Possession (2013)
as Narrator (voice)
Withnail and Us (1999)
as Self
Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
as Lieutenant Bush
Doctor Who: Shada (2003)
as The Doctor (voice)
My Dad Was a Communist (2008)
as Narrator
Tree of Hands (1989)
as Barry
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)
as Narrator (voice)
Hornblower: Duty (2003)
as Lieutenant Bush
My Kingdom (2001)
as Dean
The Other Prince William (2015)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Churchill: When Britain Said No (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
Ghosts on the Underground (2005)
as Narrator
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
Shark: Beneath the Surface (2015)
as self, narrator
Nero's Sunken City (2017)
as Narrator (English Voice)
Streets of Yesterday (1989)
as Joseph
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK (2005)
Actor
Brakes (2017)
as Peter
Triesverse: Cataclysm (2026)
as The Doctor
Otherworld (2003)
as King Matholwch (voice)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire (2015)
as Narrator
Perplexed Music (2017)
as Man
Hotel! (2001)
as Ben Carter
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On (2019)
as Self
The Monk (1990)
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
The Hanging Gale (1995)
as Liam Phelan
Gadaffi and the IRA (2011)
as Narrator
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack (2016)
as Narrator (Voice)
The Orangutan King (2005)
as Narrator
Super Powered Owls (2015)
as Narrator
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting (2014)
as Narrator
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover (2007)
as Narrator
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence (2013)
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
France: The Wild Side (2014)
as Narrator
Whistling Wally (1982)
as Norman
Absence (2015)
as Man
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race (2014)
as Narrator (Voice)
Davros Connections (2007)
as (archival audio)
World of Compulsive Hoarders (2007)
Actor
Gaskin (1983)
as Graham Gaskin
Gypo (2005)
as Paul
Swallow Your Dreams (2022)
as James
Art Is... (2013)
as Lulu's Dad