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