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
The Three Musketeers (1993)
as Girard / Jussac
Empire of the Sun (1987)
as Lieutenant Price
Queen of the Damned (2002)
as David Talbot
Withnail & I (1987)
as ...& I
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
Good Behaviour (2026)
as Richard
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)
as Vicar
The Orangutan King (2005)
as Narrator
Doctor Who (1996)
as The Doctor
FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
as Arthur Wright
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
The Big Night In (2020)
as Self
Downtime (1997)
as Rob
Catherine the Great (1996)
as Potemkin
Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
as Lt. Bush
Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
as Lieutenant Bush
The 9/11 Surfer (2011)
as Narrator
Hornblower: Duty (2003)
as Lieutenant Bush
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' (2003)
as Self
The Marbles (2025)
as Lord Byron (voice)
Dealers (1989)
as Daniel Pascoe
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Star Trek Story (1996)
as Self - Commentary (voice)
The Merchant of Venice (1996)
as Bassanio
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013)
as Self
Doctor Who Am I (2022)
as Self
Death of an Idealist (2005)
as Narrator
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
as The Doctor
The Undertaker (2023)
as Arthur
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time (2011)
Actor
The One That Got Away (1996)
as Chris Ryan
The Ties That Bind Us (2008)
as Self - Narrator
Tiger Island (2012)
as Narrator
Talking Doctor Who (2023)
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
The Rainbow (1989)
as Anton Skrebensky
Godard & Others (2010)
as Torrence
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
as Lieutenant Bush
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker (2012)
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Paper Mask (1990)
as Matthew Harris
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War (2025)
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Churchill’s Forgotten War (2024)
as Narrator (voice)
Afraid of the Dark (1991)
as Tony
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story (2001)
as Self- Narrator
Lie with Me (2004)
as Gerry Henson
The Day of the Sun Dog (2023)
as Jaggers
Tree of Hands (1989)
as Barry
Digging The Great Escape (2011)
as narrator
Picasso's Last Stand (2018)
as Narrator
Streets of Yesterday (1989)
as Joseph
Triesverse: Cataclysm (2026)
as The Doctor
The Biographer (2002)
as Andrew Morton
The Day John Lennon Died (2010)
as Narrator
The Dance of Shiva (1998)
as Captain Greville
The Minister of Chance: Prologue (2014)
as Durian
Gadaffi and the IRA (2011)
as Narrator
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry (2012)
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
Nero's Sunken City (2017)
as Narrator (English Voice)
My Kingdom (2001)
as Dean
Listening (2003)
as Man
Mia and the Dragon Princess (2023)
as Walsh
Cariani and the Courtesans (1987)
as Giovanni Cariani
Perplexed Music (2017)
as Man
Blood Strangers (2002)
as DC David Ingram
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story (2014)
as Himself
Hotel! (2001)
as Ben Carter
The Other Prince William (2015)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Super Powered Owls (2015)
as Narrator
B&B (2017)
as Josh
The Monk (1990)
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
France: The Wild Side (2014)
as Narrator
Withnail and Us (1999)
as Self
Ghosts on the Underground (2005)
as Narrator
Otherworld (2003)
as King Matholwch (voice)
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack (2016)
as Narrator (Voice)
Swans: Mystery of the Missing (2019)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On (2019)
as Self
Drowning in the Shallow End (1990)
as Colin
Swallow Your Dreams (2022)
as James
Doctor Who: Shada (2003)
as The Doctor (voice)
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (2015)
as narrator
Gypo (2005)
as Paul
Davros Connections (2007)
as (archival audio)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison (2014)
as Self
Shark: Beneath the Surface (2015)
as self, narrator
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)
as Narrator (voice)
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover (2007)
as Narrator
The Importance of Being Earnest (1988)
as John Worthing
Fables of Forgotten Things (2008)
as Clarence
Brady and Hindley: Possession (2013)
as Narrator (voice)
Always Crashing in the Same Car (2007)
as Bill Mackinnon
Absence (2015)
as Man
If I Had You (2006)
as Philip Andrews
Churchill: When Britain Said No (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
The Hanging Gale (1995)
as Liam Phelan
Brakes (2017)
as Peter
Whistling Wally (1982)
as Norman
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire (2015)
as Narrator
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race (2014)
as Narrator (Voice)
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting (2014)
as Narrator
World of Compulsive Hoarders (2007)
Actor
My Dad Was a Communist (2008)
as Narrator
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years (2019)
Actor
Gaskin (1983)
as Graham Gaskin
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK (2005)
Actor
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land (2018)
as Himself
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius (2014)
Actor
Kidnapped (2005)
as Colonel MacNab
Art Is... (2013)
as Lulu's Dad
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary (1996)
as Self
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (2014)
as James Craven
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle (1984)
as Mo Morris
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence (2013)
as Himself - Narrator (voice)