Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

157

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-11-14 (65 years old)

Place of Birth

Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

Paul McGann

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

6.4%

Alien³

May 22, 1992

7.5%

Doctor Who

Mar 26, 2005

7.5%

Doctor Who

Mar 26, 2005

7.5%

Empire of the Sun

Dec 9, 1987

6.1%

Queen of the Damned

Feb 10, 2002

7.9%

Luther

May 4, 2010

6.4%

The Three Musketeers

Nov 11, 1993

8.2%

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Nov 23, 2013

7.9%

Doctor Who

Nov 23, 1963

7.3%

Withnail & I

Jun 19, 1987

8.1%

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Jan 8, 1989

5.2%

Lesbian Vampire Killers

Mar 16, 2009

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Acting

2024		Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show as The Doctor
2024		Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024		Churchill’s Forgotten War as Narrator (voice)

2023		The Day of the Sun Dog as Jaggers
2023		The Undertaker as Arthur
2023		Talking Doctor Who as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023		Mia and the Dragon Princess as Walsh

2022		Doctor Who Am I as Self
2022		Swallow Your Dreams as James
2022		Anne as Malcolm Thornton MP

2021		Annika as Jake Strathearn
2021		Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World as Self - Narrator

2020

McDonald & Dodds as Archie Addington

2019		Victorian Sensations as Self - Presenter
2019		The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On as Self
2019		Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann
2019		Swans: Mystery of the Missing as Narrator (voice)
2019		The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

2018		Picasso's Last Stand as Narrator
2018		Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land as Himself

2017		Brakes as Peter
2017		Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence as Narrator (voice)
2017		Nero's Sunken City as Narrator (English Voice)
2017		B&B as Josh
2017		Wildest Europe as Narrator
2017		Perplexed Music as Man

2016		Wildest Islands of Indonesia as Narrator
2016		Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack as Narrator (Voice)

2015		Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015		China - Treasures of the Jade Empire as Narrator
2015		Absence as Man
2015		The Other Prince William as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015		Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden as Narrator (voice)
2015		Churchill: When Britain Said No as Narrator (voice)
2015		Shark as Himself - Narrator
2015		Super Powered Owls as Narrator
2015		Wild Sri Lanka as Paul McGann

2014		Wildest Middle East as Narrator
2014		The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story as Himself
2014		Secrets of the Castle as Narrator (Voice)
2014		Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race as Narrator (Voice)
2014		Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison as Self
2014		Wildest Indochina as Narrator (voice)
2014		A Little Place Off the Edgware Road as James Craven
2014		The Musketeers as St Pierre
2014		The Musketeers as Saint Pierre
2014		Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting as Narrator

2013		Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013		The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as Self
2013		Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor as The Doctor
2013		JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013		Brady and Hindley: Possession as Narrator (voice)
2013		Art Is... as Lulu's Dad
2013		Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited as Self

2012		Wildest Islands as Narrator
2012		Ripper Street as Stanley Bone
2012		Britain's Greatest Codebreaker as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012		A Mother's Son as David
2012		Tiger Island as Narrator
2012		Wildest Latin America as Self - Narrator (voice)
2012		SOS: The Titanic Inquiry as Sir Rufus Isaacs

2011		Digging The Great Escape as narrator
2011		Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011		The 9/11 Surfer as Narrator

2010		The Day John Lennon Died as Narrator
2010		Godard & Others as Torrence
2010		Luther as Mark North

2009		Collision as Richard Reeves
2009		Moving On as Phil
2009		Lesbian Vampire Killers as Vicar

2008		Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2008		Fables of Forgotten Things as Clarence
2008		My Dad Was a Communist as Narrator
2008		The Ties That Bind Us as Narrator

2007		Davros Connections as (archival audio)
2007		The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2007		True Dare Kiss as Nash McKinnon
2007		Always Crashing in the Same Car as Bill Mackinnon
2007		World of Compulsive Hoarders

2006		Tripping Over as Jeremy
2006		If I Had You as Philip Andrews

2005		Ghosts on the Underground as Narrator
2005		The Orangutan King as Narrator
2005		Gypo as Paul
2005		Psycho as Narrator
2005		Doctor Who as The Doctor (archive footage)
2005		Doctor Who as The Doctor
2005		Kidnapped
2005		Kidnapped as Colonel MacNab
2005		Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005		Twisted Tales
2005		Death of an Idealist as Narrator

2004		Agatha Christie's Marple as Dickie Erskine
2004		Lie with Me as Gerry Henson
2004		Bible Mysteries as Himself-Narrator
2004		Sea of Souls as Christopher Chambers
2004		New Tricks as D.C.I. James Larson

2003		Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' as Self
2003		Listening as Man
2003		Otherworld as King Matholwch (voice)
2003		Doctor Who: Shada as The Doctor (voice)
2003		Hornblower: Duty as Lieutenant Bush
2003		Hornblower: Loyalty as Lieutenant Bush

2002		The Biographer as Andrew Morton
2002		Queen of the Damned as David Talbot
2002		Blood Strangers as DC David Ingram

2001		Sweet Revenge as Patrick Vine
2001		My Kingdom as Dean
2001		Waking the Dead as ACC Tony Nicholson
2001		Hornblower: Retribution as Lt. Bush
2001		Hornblower: Mutiny as Lieutenant Bush
2001		Hotel! as Ben Carter

2000		Fish as Jonathan Vishnevski
2000		Nature Boy as Steve Witton

1999		Withnail and Us as Self
1999		Forgotten as Ben Turner

1998		The Dance of Shiva as Captain Greville
1998		Hornblower as William Bush
1998		Our Mutual Friend as Eugene Wrayburn

1997		FairyTale: A True Story as Arthur Wright
1997		Downtime as Rob
1997		Jonathan Creek as Hugo Dore

1996		Testament: The Bible in Animation as David (voice)
1996		Star Trek Story as Self - Commentary (voice)
1996		Doctor Who as The Doctor
1996		Catherine the Great as Potemkin
1996		Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self
1996		The One That Got Away as Chris Ryan
1996		The Merchant of Venice as Bassanio

1995		The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan
1995		The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan

1993

The Three Musketeers as Girard / Jussac

1992		Nice Town as Joe Thompson
1992		Alien³ as Golic

1991

Afraid of the Dark as Tony

1990		Paper Mask as Matthew Harris
1990		Drowning in the Shallow End as Colin
1990		The Monk as Father Lorenzo Rojas

1989		Dealers as Daniel Pascoe
1989		The Rainbow as Anton Skrebensky
1989		Streets of Yesterday as Joseph
1989		Tree of Hands as Barry
1989		Agatha Christie's Poirot as Dr. Peter Lord