Paul McGann

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Biography

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

Alien³

Golic

Empire of the Sun

Lieutenant Price

Luther

Mark North

Queen of the Damned

David Talbot

The Three Musketeers

Girard / Jussac

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Withnail & I

...& I

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Dr. Peter Lord

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Good Behaviour MOVIE	Richard
2025	The Marbles MOVIE	Lord Byron (voice)
2025	Bookish TV	Mr. Kind
2025	Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War MOVIE	The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024	Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show MOVIE	The Doctor
2024	Doctor Who at the Proms MOVIE	The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024	Churchill’s Forgotten War MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2023	The Day of the Sun Dog MOVIE	Jaggers
2023	The Undertaker MOVIE	Arthur
2023	Talking Doctor Who MOVIE	Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023	Mia and the Dragon Princess MOVIE	Walsh
2022	Doctor Who Am I MOVIE	Self
2022	Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor MOVIE	The Doctor
2022	Swallow Your Dreams MOVIE	James
2022	Anne TV	Malcolm Thornton MP
2021	Annika TV	Jake Strathearn
2021	Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World TV	Self - Narrator
2020	The Big Night In MOVIE	Self
2020	McDonald & Dodds TV	Archie Addington
2019	The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years MOVIE	Self
2019	Victorian Sensations TV	Self - Presenter
2019	The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On MOVIE	Self
2019	Swans: Mystery of the Missing MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2018	Picasso's Last Stand MOVIE	Narrator
2018	Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land MOVIE	Himself
2017	Brakes MOVIE	Peter
2017	Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2017	Nero's Sunken City MOVIE	Narrator (English Voice)
2017	B&B MOVIE	Josh
2017	Wildest Europe TV	Narrator
2017	Perplexed Music MOVIE	Man
2016	Wildest Islands of Indonesia TV	Narrator
2016	Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack MOVIE	Narrator (Voice)
2015	Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song MOVIE	The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015	China - Treasures of the Jade Empire MOVIE	Narrator
2015	Absence MOVIE	Man
2015	The Other Prince William MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
2015	Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2015	Churchill: When Britain Said No MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2015	Shark: Beneath the Surface MOVIE	self, narrator
2015	Shark TV	Himself - Narrator
2015	Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace MOVIE	narrator
2015	Super Powered Owls MOVIE	Narrator
2015	Wild Sri Lanka TV	Paul McGann
2014	Wildest Middle East TV	Narrator
2014	The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story MOVIE	Himself
2014	Secrets of the Castle TV	Narrator (Voice)
2014	The Minister of Chance: Prologue MOVIE	Durian
2014	Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race MOVIE	Narrator (Voice)
2014	Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison MOVIE	Self
2014	Wildest Indochina TV	Narrator (voice)
2014	France: The Wild Side MOVIE	Narrator
2014	Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius MOVIE	Self
2014	A Little Place Off the Edgware Road MOVIE	James Craven
2014	The Musketeers TV	St Pierre
2014	The Musketeers TV	Saint Pierre
2014	Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting MOVIE	Narrator
2013	The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot MOVIE	Self
2013	Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor MOVIE	The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013	Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor MOVIE	The Doctor
2013	JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence MOVIE	Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013	Brady and Hindley: Possession MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2013	Art Is... MOVIE	Lulu's Dad
2013	Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited TV	Self
2012	Wildest Islands TV	Narrator
2012	Ripper Street TV	Stanley Bone
2012	Britain's Greatest Codebreaker MOVIE	Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012	The Bletchley Circle TV	John Richards
2012	A Mother's Son TV	David
2012	Tiger Island MOVIE	Narrator
2012	Wildest Latin America TV	Self - Narrator (voice)
2012	SOS: The Titanic Inquiry MOVIE	Sir Rufus Isaacs
2011	Digging The Great Escape MOVIE	narrator
2011	Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time MOVIE	Self
2011	Gadaffi and the IRA MOVIE	Narrator
2011	The 9/11 Surfer MOVIE	Narrator
2010	The Day John Lennon Died MOVIE	Narrator
2010	Godard & Others MOVIE	Torrence
2010	Luther TV	Mark North
2009	Collision TV	Richard Reeves
2009	Moving On TV	Phil
2009	Lesbian Vampire Killers MOVIE	Vicar
2008	Doctor Who: The Next Doctor MOVIE	The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2008	Fables of Forgotten Things MOVIE	Clarence
2008	My Dad Was a Communist MOVIE	Narrator
2008	The Ties That Bind Us MOVIE	Self - Narrator
2007	Davros Connections MOVIE	(archival audio)
2007	The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest TV	Himself - Narrator (voice)
2007	True Dare Kiss TV	Nash McKinnon
2007	Always Crashing in the Same Car MOVIE	Bill Mackinnon
2007	World of Compulsive Hoarders MOVIE	Self
2006	Tripping Over TV	Jeremy
2006	If I Had You MOVIE	Philip Andrews
2005	Ghosts on the Underground MOVIE	Narrator
2005	The Orangutan King MOVIE	Narrator
2005	Gypo MOVIE	Paul
2005	Psycho TV	Narrator
2005	Kidnapped MOVIE	Colonel MacNab
2005	Kidnapped TV	Self
2005	Daphne Ashbrook in the UK MOVIE	Self
2005	Twisted Tales TV	Phone (voice)
2005	Death of an Idealist MOVIE	Narrator
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple TV	Dickie Erskine
2004	Lie with Me MOVIE	Gerry Henson
2004	Zero Hour TV	Narrator (Voice)
2004	Bible Mysteries TV	Himself-Narrator
2004	Sea of Souls TV	Christopher Chambers
2004	New Tricks TV	D.C.I. James Larson
2003	Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' MOVIE	Self
2003	Listening MOVIE	Man
2003	Otherworld MOVIE	King Matholwch (voice)
2003	Doctor Who: Shada MOVIE	The Doctor (voice)
2003	Hornblower: Duty MOVIE	Lieutenant Bush
2003	Hornblower: Loyalty MOVIE	Lieutenant Bush
2002	The Biographer MOVIE	Andrew Morton
2002	Queen of the Damned MOVIE	David Talbot
2002	Blood Strangers MOVIE	DC David Ingram
2001	Sweet Revenge TV	Patrick Vine
2001	My Kingdom MOVIE	Dean
2001	Waking the Dead TV	ACC Tony Nicholson
2001	Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story MOVIE	Self- Narrator
2001	Hornblower: Retribution MOVIE	Lt. Bush
2001	Hornblower: Mutiny MOVIE	Lieutenant Bush
2001	Hotel! MOVIE	Ben Carter
2000	Fish TV	Jonathan Vishnevski
2000	Nature Boy TV	Steve Witton
1999	Withnail and Us MOVIE	Self
1999	Forgotten TV	Ben Turner
1999	Holby City TV	John Gaskell
1998	The Dance of Shiva MOVIE	Captain Greville
1998	Hornblower TV	William Bush
1998	Our Mutual Friend TV	Eugene Wrayburn
1997	FairyTale: A True Story MOVIE	Arthur Wright
1997	Downtime MOVIE	Rob
1996	Testament: The Bible in Animation TV	David (voice)
1996	Star Trek Story MOVIE	Self - Commentary (voice)
1996	Doctor Who MOVIE	The Doctor
1996	Catherine the Great MOVIE	Potemkin
1996	Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary MOVIE	Self
1996	The One That Got Away MOVIE	Chris Ryan
1996	The Merchant of Venice MOVIE	Bassanio
1995	The Hanging Gale TV	Liam Phelan
1995	The Hanging Gale MOVIE	Liam Phelan
1993	The Three Musketeers MOVIE	Girard / Jussac
1992	Nice Town TV	Joe Thompson
1992	Alien³ MOVIE	Golic
1991	Afraid of the Dark MOVIE	Tony
1990	Paper Mask MOVIE	Matthew Harris
1990	Drowning in the Shallow End MOVIE	Colin
1990	The Monk MOVIE	Father Lorenzo Rojas
1989	Dealers MOVIE	Daniel Pascoe
1989	The Rainbow MOVIE	Anton Skrebensky
1989	Streets of Yesterday MOVIE	Joseph
1989	Tree of Hands MOVIE	Barry
1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot TV	Dr. Peter Lord
1988	The Importance of Being Earnest MOVIE	John Worthing
1987	Empire of the Sun MOVIE	Lieutenant Price
1987	Cariani and the Courtesans MOVIE	Giovanni Cariani
1987	Withnail & I MOVIE	...& I
1986	The Monocled Mutineer TV	Percy Toplis
1984	Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle MOVIE	Mo Morris
1983	Natural World TV	Narrator
1983	Give us a Break TV	Mo Morris
1983	Gaskin MOVIE	Graham Gaskin
1982	Whistling Wally MOVIE	Norman
1977	Fish TV	Self
1970	Play for Today TV	Norman
1964	Horizon TV	Himself

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