Paul McGann
Acting
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.
Filmography 173
Movies (115)
Triesverse: Cataclysm2026The Doctor
Good Behaviour2026Richard
The Marbles2025Lord Byron (voice)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War2025The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who at the Proms2024The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Churchill’s Forgotten War2024Narrator (voice)
The Day of the Sun Dog2023Jaggers
The Undertaker2023Arthur
Talking Doctor Who2023Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess2023Walsh
Doctor Who Am I2022Self
Swallow Your Dreams2022James
The Big Night In2020Self
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On2019Self
Swans: Mystery of the Missing2019Self - Narrator (voice)
Picasso's Last Stand2018Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land2018Himself
Perplexed Music2017Man
Brakes2017Peter
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence2017Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City2017Narrator (English Voice)
B&B2017Josh
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack2016Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song2015The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire2015Narrator
Absence2015Man- The Other Prince William2015Self - Narrator (voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden2015Narrator (voice)
Churchill: When Britain Said No2015Narrator (voice)
Shows (58)
Bookish2025Mr. Kind
Anne2022Malcolm Thornton MP
Annika2021Jake Strathearn
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World2021Self - Narrator
McDonald & Dodds2020Archie Addington
Victorian Sensations2019Self - Presenter
Wildest Europe2017Narrator
Wildest Islands of Indonesia2016Narrator
Shark2015Himself - Narrator
Wild Sri Lanka2015Paul McGann
Wildest Middle East2014Narrator
Secrets of the Castle2014Narrator (Voice)
Wildest Indochina2014Narrator (voice)
The Musketeers2014St Pierre
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited2013Self
Wildest Islands2012Narrator
Ripper Street2012Stanley Bone
The Bletchley Circle2012John Richards
A Mother's Son2012David
Wildest Latin America2012Self - Narrator (voice)
Luther2010Mark North
Collision2009Richard Reeves
Moving On2009Phil
The True Story2008Narrator
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest2007Himself - Narrator (voice)
True Dare Kiss2007Nash McKinnon
Tripping Over2006Jeremy- Psycho2005Narrator
Kidnapped2005
Twisted Tales2005Phone (voice)