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