Paul McGann
ActingBorn November 14, 1959 (age 66)
Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Triesverse: Cataclysm2026 · The Doctor
Good Behaviour2026 · Richard
The Marbles2025 · Lord Byron (voice)
Bookish2025 · Mr. Kind
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War2025 · The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who at the Proms2024 · The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Churchill’s Forgotten War2024 · Narrator (voice)
The Day of the Sun Dog2023 · Jaggers
The Undertaker2023 · Arthur
Talking Doctor Who2023 · Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess2023 · Walsh
Doctor Who Am I2022 · Self
Swallow Your Dreams2022 · James
Anne2022 · Malcolm Thornton MP
Annika2021 · Jake Strathearn
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World2021 · Self - Narrator
The Big Night In2020 · Self
McDonald & Dodds2020 · Archie Addington
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years2019
Victorian Sensations2019 · Self - Presenter
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On2019 · Self
Swans: Mystery of the Missing2019 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Picasso's Last Stand2018 · Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land2018 · Himself
Perplexed Music2017 · Man
Brakes2017 · Peter
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence2017 · Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City2017 · Narrator (English Voice)
B&B2017 · Josh
Wildest Europe2017 · Narrator
Wildest Islands of Indonesia2016 · Narrator
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack2016 · Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song2015 · The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire2015 · Narrator
Absence2015 · Man
The Other Prince William
The Other Prince William2015 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden2015 · Narrator (voice)
Churchill: When Britain Said No2015 · Narrator (voice)
Shark: Beneath the Surface2015 · self, narrator
Shark2015 · Himself - Narrator
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace2015
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road2014
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting2014
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius2014
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor2013
Art Is...2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot2013
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker2012
A Mother's Son2012 · David Haleton
Luther2010 · Mark North
Collision2009 · Richard Reeves
Lesbian Vampire Killers2009
The Ties That Bind Us2008
My Dad Was a Communist2008
Fables of Forgotten Things2008
Always Crashing in the Same Car2007
True Dare Kiss2007
If I Had You2006
Gypo2005
The Orangutan King2005
Kidnapped2005
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK2005
Lie with Me2004
Doctor Who: Shada2003
Hornblower: Duty2003
Hornblower: Loyalty2003
The Biographer2002
Queen of the Damned2002
Sweet Revenge
Sweet Revenge2001
Hornblower: Retribution2001
Nature Boy2000 · Steve Witton
Forgotten1999
Our Mutual Friend1998 · Eugene Wrayburn
Hornblower1998
Downtime1997
FairyTale: A True Story1997
The One That Got Away1996
Star Trek Story1996
Doctor Who1996
Catherine the Great1996
The Merchant of Venice1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary1996
The Hanging Gale1995
Alien³1992
Secret History1991
Afraid of the Dark1991
Paper Mask1990
Drowning in the Shallow End1990
The Monk1990
Dealers1989
Streets of Yesterday1989
The Rainbow1989
Tree of Hands1989
Cariani and the Courtesans1987
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle1984
Gaskin1983
Give us a Break1983 · Mo Morris
Whistling Wally1982