Paul McGann
Acting
Born: 1959-11-14 · Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
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.
🎬 Movies (20)
Good Behaviour
2026
Richard
The Marbles
2025
Lord Byron (voice)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024
Narrator (voice)
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023
Jaggers
The Undertaker
2023
Arthur
Talking Doctor Who
2023
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
Walsh
Doctor Who Am I
2022
Self
Swallow Your Dreams
2022
James
The Big Night In
2020
Self
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
Self
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
Self - Narrator (voice)
Picasso's Last Stand
2018
Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018
Himself
Perplexed Music
2017
Man
Brakes
2017
Peter
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
Narrator (voice)
📺 TV Shows (20)
Bookish
2025
Mr. Kind
Anne
2022
Malcolm Thornton MP
Annika
2021
Jake Strathearn
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
Self - Narrator
McDonald & Dodds
2020
Archie Addington
Victorian Sensations
2019
Self - Presenter
Wildest Europe
2017
Narrator
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016
Narrator
Shark
2015
Himself - Narrator
Wild Sri Lanka
2015
Paul McGann
Wildest Middle East
2014
Narrator
Secrets of the Castle
2014
Narrator (Voice)
Wildest Indochina
2014
Narrator (voice)
The Musketeers
2014
St Pierre
The Musketeers
2014
Saint Pierre
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
Self
Wildest Islands
2012
Narrator
Ripper Street
2012
Stanley Bone
The Bletchley Circle
2012
John Richards
A Mother's Son
2012
David