Paul McGann

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.

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Known For

Doctor Who

2005 • as The Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who

2005 • as The Doctor

Horizon

1964 • as Himself

Doctor Who

1963 • as The Doctor

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 • as Dr. Peter Lord

Play for Today

1970 • as Norman

Filmography

2025

Alien ³ - The Legacy Cut

as Golic

Movie - Released: 4/4/2025

2024

Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show

as The Doctor

Movie - Released: 12/31/2024

Doctor Who at the Proms

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 12/24/2024

Churchill’s Forgotten War

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 5/4/2024

2023

Mia and the Dragon Princess

as Walsh

Movie - Released: 4/21/2023

The Day of the Sun Dog

as Jaggers

Movie - Released: 11/26/2023

The Undertaker

as Arthur

Movie - Released: 11/3/2023

Talking Doctor Who

as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 11/1/2023

2022

Swallow Your Dreams

as James

Movie - Released: 9/12/2022

Doctor Who Am I

as Self

Movie - Released: 10/27/2022

Anne

as Malcolm Thornton MP

TV - Released: 1/2/2022

2021

Annika

as Jake Strathearn

TV - Released: 8/17/2021

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

as Self - Narrator

TV - Released: 4/12/2021

2020

McDonald & Dodds

as Archie Addington

TV - Released: 3/1/2020

2019

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

Movie - Released: 1/1/2019

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 3/1/2019

Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann

Movie - Released: 4/23/2019

The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On

as Self

Movie - Released: 4/24/2019

Victorian Sensations

as Self - Presenter

TV - Released: 5/22/2019

2018

Picasso's Last Stand

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 3/24/2018

Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land

as Himself

Movie - Released: 1/1/2018

2017

Nero's Sunken City

as Narrator (English Voice)

Movie - Released: 4/16/2017

Brakes

as Peter

Movie - Released: 11/24/2017

B&B

as Josh

Movie - Released: 4/13/2017

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 9/24/2017

Perplexed Music

as Man

Movie - Released: 1/1/2017

Wildest Europe

as Narrator

TV - Released: 2/8/2017

2016

Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

as Narrator (Voice)

Movie - Released: 9/5/2016

Wildest Islands of Indonesia

as Narrator

TV - Released: 11/27/2016

2015

Super Powered Owls

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 3/3/2015

Absence

as Man

Movie - Released: 10/16/2015

Movie

The Other Prince William

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 8/27/2015

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 7/12/2015

China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 10/18/2015

Churchill: When Britain Said No

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 6/2/2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 12/25/2015

Shark

as Himself - Narrator

TV - Released: 5/7/2015

Wild Sri Lanka

as Paul McGann

TV - Released: 1/14/2015

2014

Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 1/5/2014

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

as Self

Movie - Released: 8/1/2014

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

as James Craven

Movie - Released: 3/3/2014

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

as Narrator (Voice)

Movie - Released: 10/13/2014

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

as Himself

Movie - Released: 11/30/2014

Wildest Middle East

as Narrator

TV - Released: 12/2/2014

Secrets of the Castle

as Narrator (Voice)

TV - Released: 11/18/2014

The Musketeers

as St Pierre

TV - Released: 1/19/2014

The Musketeers

as Saint Pierre

TV - Released: 1/19/2014

Wildest Indochina

as Narrator (voice)

TV - Released: 6/25/2014

2013

Brady and Hindley: Possession

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 7/11/2013

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

as Self

Movie - Released: 11/23/2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 11/23/2013

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

as The Doctor

Movie - Released: 11/14/2013

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 11/13/2013

Art Is...

as Lulu's Dad

Movie - Released: 4/1/2013

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

as Self

TV - Released: 1/27/2013

2012

Movie

Tiger Island

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 7/26/2012

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 10/17/2012

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

as Sir Rufus Isaacs

Movie - Released: 4/16/2012

Wildest Latin America

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV - Released: 6/5/2012

Wildest Islands

as Narrator

TV - Released: 12/31/2012

A Mother's Son

as David

TV - Released: 9/3/2012

Ripper Street

as Stanley Bone

TV - Released: 12/30/2012

2011

The 9/11 Surfer

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 9/10/2011

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

Movie - Released: 10/31/2011

Digging The Great Escape

as narrator

Movie - Released: 11/28/2011

2010

Movie

Godard & Others

as Torrence

Movie - Released: 8/1/2010

The Day John Lennon Died

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 12/6/2010

Luther

as Mark North

TV - Released: 5/4/2010

2009

Lesbian Vampire Killers

as Vicar

Movie - Released: 3/16/2009

Collision

as Richard Reeves

TV - Released: 11/9/2009

Moving On

as Phil

TV - Released: 5/18/2009

2008

My Dad Was a Communist

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 8/23/2008

Movie

Fables of Forgotten Things

as Clarence

Movie - Released: 9/1/2008

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 12/25/2008

The Ties That Bind Us

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 3/3/2008

2007

Always Crashing in the Same Car

as Bill Mackinnon

Movie - Released: 6/3/2007

World of Compulsive Hoarders

Movie - Released: 5/2/2007

Davros Connections

as (archival audio)

Movie - Released: 11/26/2007

True Dare Kiss

as Nash McKinnon

TV - Released: 6/28/2007

The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

TV - Released: 10/10/2007

2006

If I Had You

as Philip Andrews

Movie - Released: 5/1/2006

Tripping Over

as Jeremy

TV - Released: 10/25/2006

2005

Gypo

as Paul

Movie - Released: 8/24/2005

The Orangutan King

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 10/19/2005

Death of an Idealist

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 1/1/2005

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK

Movie - Released: 2/1/2005

Ghosts on the Underground

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 10/31/2005

Kidnapped

as Colonel MacNab

Movie - Released: 2/27/2005

Twisted Tales

TV - Released: 1/16/2005

Doctor Who

as The Doctor (archive footage)

TV - Released: 3/26/2005

Kidnapped

TV - Released: 2/27/2005

Psycho

as Narrator

TV - Released: 8/23/2005

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

TV - Released: 3/26/2005

2004

Lie with Me

as Gerry Henson

Movie - Released: 11/15/2004

Sea of Souls

as Christopher Chambers

TV - Released: 2/2/2004

New Tricks

as D.C.I. James Larson

TV - Released: 1/1/2004

Bible Mysteries

as Himself-Narrator

TV - Released: 2/15/2004

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Dickie Erskine

TV - Released: 12/12/2004

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty

as Lieutenant Bush

Movie - Released: 1/5/2003

Hornblower: Duty

as Lieutenant Bush

Movie - Released: 1/6/2003

Movie

Otherworld

as King Matholwch (voice)

Movie - Released: 6/26/2003

Doctor Who: Shada

as The Doctor (voice)

Movie - Released: 5/2/2003

Movie

Listening

as Man

Movie - Released: 10/3/2003

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

as Self

Movie - Released: 12/2/2003

2002

Queen of the Damned

as David Talbot

Movie - Released: 2/10/2002

Blood Strangers

as DC David Ingram

Movie - Released: 2/3/2002

The Biographer

as Andrew Morton

Movie - Released: 9/1/2002

2001

Hornblower: Mutiny

as Lieutenant Bush

Movie - Released: 4/8/2001

My Kingdom

as Dean

Movie - Released: 9/10/2001

Hornblower: Retribution

as Lt. Bush

Movie - Released: 4/15/2001

Hotel!

as Ben Carter

Movie - Released: 2/17/2001

Sweet Revenge

as Patrick Vine

TV - Released: 10/15/2001

Waking the Dead

as ACC Tony Nicholson

TV - Released: 6/18/2001

2000

Fish

as Jonathan Vishnevski

TV - Released: 5/2/2000

Nature Boy

as Steve Witton

TV - Released: 2/14/2000

1999

Withnail and Us

as Self

Movie - Released: 8/4/1999

Forgotten

as Ben Turner

TV - Released: 2/15/1999

1998

The Dance of Shiva

as Captain Greville

Movie - Released: 12/18/1998

Our Mutual Friend

as Eugene Wrayburn

TV - Released: 3/9/1998

Hornblower

as William Bush

TV - Released: 10/7/1998

1997

Downtime

as Rob

Movie - Released: 10/21/1997

FairyTale: A True Story

as Arthur Wright

Movie - Released: 10/24/1997

Jonathan Creek

as Hugo Dore

TV - Released: 5/9/1997

1996

The One That Got Away

as Chris Ryan

Movie - Released: 2/18/1996

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Movie - Released: 5/12/1996

Catherine the Great

as Potemkin

Movie - Released: 4/28/1996

Star Trek Story

as Self - Commentary (voice)

Movie - Released: 8/26/1996

Movie

The Merchant of Venice

as Bassanio

Movie - Released: 1/1/1996

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

as Self

Movie - Released: 4/1/1996

Testament: The Bible in Animation

as David (voice)

TV - Released: 10/16/1996

1995

The Hanging Gale

as Liam Phelan

Movie - Released: 1/1/1995

The Hanging Gale

as Liam Phelan

TV - Released: 5/14/1995

1993

The Three Musketeers

as Girard / Jussac

Movie - Released: 11/11/1993

1992

Alien³

as Golic

Movie - Released: 5/22/1992

Nice Town

as Joe Thompson

TV - Released: 11/18/1992

1991

Afraid of the Dark

as Tony

Movie - Released: 10/10/1991

1990

Paper Mask

as Matthew Harris

Movie - Released: 9/14/1990

Drowning in the Shallow End

as Colin

Movie - Released: 1/28/1990

The Monk

as Father Lorenzo Rojas

Movie - Released: 1/17/1990

1989

The Rainbow

as Anton Skrebensky

Movie - Released: 5/5/1989

Dealers

as Daniel Pascoe

Movie - Released: 11/3/1989

Streets of Yesterday

as Joseph

Movie - Released: 5/1/1989

Tree of Hands

as Barry

Movie - Released: 3/7/1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Dr. Peter Lord

TV - Released: 1/8/1989

1988

The Importance of Being Earnest

as John Worthing

Movie - Released: 5/29/1988

1987

Withnail & I

as ...& I

Movie - Released: 6/19/1987

Cariani and the Courtesans

as Giovanni Cariani

Movie - Released: 8/5/1987

Empire of the Sun

as Lieutenant Price

Movie - Released: 12/9/1987

1986

The Monocled Mutineer

as Percy Toplis

TV - Released: 8/31/1986

1984

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

as Mo Morris

Movie - Released: 12/31/1984

1983

Gaskin

as Graham Gaskin

Movie - Released: 1/1/1983

Natural World

as Narrator

TV - Released: 10/30/1983

Give us a Break

as Mo Morris

TV - Released: 9/22/1983

1982

Whistling Wally

as Norman

Movie - Released: 4/6/1982

1977

Fish

TV - Released: 2/5/1977

1970

Play for Today

as Norman

TV - Released: 10/15/1970

1964

Horizon

as Himself

TV - Released: 2/4/1964

1963

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

TV - Released: 11/23/1963