Paul McGann
Acting
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
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movieTriesverse: Cataclysm
2026
The Doctor
movieGood Behaviour
2026
Richard
movieThe Marbles
2025
Lord Byron (voice)
tvBookish
2025
Mr. Kind
movieDoctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieDoctor Who at the Proms
2024
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
movieChurchill’s Forgotten War
2024
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Undertaker
2023
Arthur
movieTalking Doctor Who
2023
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
tvAnne
2022
Malcolm Thornton MP
tvAnnika
2021
Jake Strathearn
tvGreta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
Self - Narrator
tvMcDonald & Dodds
2020
Archie Addington
tvVictorian Sensations
2019
Self - Presenter
movieSwans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
Self - Narrator (voice)
moviePicasso's Last Stand
2018
Narrator
movieBrakes
2017
Peter
movieEgypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
Narrator (voice)
movieNero's Sunken City
2017
Narrator (English Voice)
movieB&B
2017
Josh
tvWildest Europe
2017
Narrator
movieUnfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016
Narrator (Voice)
movieDoctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
The Other Prince William
2015
Self - Narrator (voice)
movieFinding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
Narrator (voice)
movieChurchill: When Britain Said No
2015
Narrator (voice)
movieShark: Beneath the Surface
2015
self, narrator
tvShark
2015
Himself - Narrator
movieSuper Powered Owls
2015
Narrator
tvWild Sri Lanka
2015
Paul McGann
tvWildest Middle East
2014
Narrator
tvSecrets of the Castle
2014
Narrator (Voice)
movieCosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
Narrator (Voice)
tvWildest Indochina
2014
Narrator (voice)
movieFrance: The Wild Side
2014
Narrator
movieA Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014
James Craven
tvThe Musketeers
2014
St Pierre / Saint Pierre
movieDoctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
movieJFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
Himself - Narrator (voice)
movieBrady and Hindley: Possession
2013
Narrator (voice)
movieArt Is...
2013
Lulu's Dad
tvWildest Islands
2012
Narrator
tvRipper Street
2012
Stanley Bone
movieBritain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
Himself - Narrator (voice)
tvThe Bletchley Circle
2012
John Richards
tvA Mother's Son
2012
David
tvWildest Latin America
2012
Self - Narrator (voice)
movieSOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
Sir Rufus Isaacs
movieThe 9/11 Surfer
2011
Narrator
tvLuther
2010
Mark North
tvCollision
2009
Richard Reeves
tvMoving On
2009
Phil
movieDoctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
movieMy Dad Was a Communist
2008
Narrator
tvThe True Story
2008
Narrator
movieThe Ties That Bind Us
2008
Self - Narrator
movieDavros Connections
2007
(archival audio)
tvThe Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007
Himself - Narrator (voice)
tvTrue Dare Kiss
2007
Nash McKinnon
movieAlways Crashing in the Same Car
2007
Bill Mackinnon
tvTripping Over
2006
Jeremy
movieIf I Had You
2006
Philip Andrews
movieThe Orangutan King
2005
Narrator
movieGypo
2005
Paul
Psycho
2005
Narrator
movieKidnapped
2005
Colonel MacNab
tvTwisted Tales
2005
Phone (voice)
movieDeath of an Idealist
2005
Narrator
tvAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
Dickie Erskine
movieLie with Me
2004
Gerry Henson
tvLie with Me
2004
Gerry Henson
tvZero Hour
2004
Narrator (Voice)
tvBible Mysteries
2004
Himself-Narrator
tvSea of Souls
2004
Christopher Chambers
tvNew Tricks
2004
D.C.I. James Larson
movieOtherworld
2003
King Matholwch (voice)
movieDoctor Who: Shada
2003
The Doctor (voice)
movieHornblower: Duty
2003
Lieutenant Bush
movieHornblower: Loyalty
2003
Lieutenant Bush
movieThe Biographer
2002
Andrew Morton
movieQueen of the Damned
2002
David Talbot
movieBlood Strangers
2002
DC David Ingram
tvBlood Strangers
2002
DC David Ingram
Sweet Revenge
2001
Patrick Vine
tvWaking the Dead
2001
ACC Tony Nicholson
movieLike a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001
Self- Narrator
movieHornblower: Retribution
2001
Lt. Bush
movieHornblower: Mutiny
2001
Lieutenant Bush
movieHotel!
2001
Ben Carter
Fish
2000
Jonathan Vishnevski
tvNature Boy
2000
Steve Witton
tvForgotten
1999
Ben Turner
tvHolby City
1999
John Gaskell
movieThe Dance of Shiva
1998
Captain Greville
tvHornblower
1998
William Bush
tvOur Mutual Friend
1998
Eugene Wrayburn
movieFairyTale: A True Story
1997
Arthur Wright
tvTestament: The Bible in Animation
1996
David (voice)
movieStar Trek Story
1996
Self - Commentary (voice)
movieDoctor Who
1996
The Doctor
movieCatherine the Great
1996
Potemkin
movieThe One That Got Away
1996
Chris Ryan
movieThe Merchant of Venice
1996
Bassanio
tvThe Hanging Gale
1995
Liam Phelan
movieThe Hanging Gale
1995
Liam Phelan
movieThe Three Musketeers
1993
Girard / Jussac
Nice Town
1992
Joe Thompson
movieAlien³
1992
Golic
moviePaper Mask
1990
Matthew Harris
movieThe Monk
1990
Father Lorenzo Rojas
movieDealers
1989
Daniel Pascoe
movieThe Rainbow
1989
Anton Skrebensky
tvAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Dr. Peter Lord
movieThe Importance of Being Earnest
1988
John Worthing
movieEmpire of the Sun
1987
Lieutenant Price
movieCariani and the Courtesans
1987
Giovanni Cariani
movieWithnail & I
1987
...& I
tvThe Monocled Mutineer
1986
Percy Toplis
Sunday Premiere
1986
Percy Toplis
tvScreenPlay
1986
Giovanni Cariani
tvScreen Two
1985
Colin
tvNatural World
1983
Narrator
tvGive us a Break
1983
Mo Morris
movieGaskin
1983
Graham Gaskin
movieWhistling Wally
1982
Norman
tvPlay for Today
1970
Norman
tvHorizon
1964
Himself
Crew1
tvChina: Between Clouds and Dreams
2016
Commissioning Editor
Directing1
tvMoving On
2009
Director