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.
2026Triesverse: CataclysmMovieas The Doctor
2026Good BehaviourMovieas Richard
2025The MarblesMovieas Lord Byron (voice)
2025BookishTV showas Mr. Kind · 2 episodes
2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarMovieas The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024Doctor Who at the PromsMovieas The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024Churchill’s Forgotten WarMovieas Narrator (voice)
2023The Day of the Sun DogMovieas Jaggers
2023The UndertakerMovieas Arthur
2023Talking Doctor WhoMovieas Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023Mia and the Dragon PrincessMovieas Walsh
2022Doctor Who Am IMovieas Self
2022Swallow Your DreamsMovieas James
2022AnneTV showas Malcolm Thornton MP · 4 episodes2021AnnikaTV showas Jake Strathearn · 6 episodes
2021Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the WorldTV showas Self - Narrator · 3 episodes
2020The Big Night InMovieas Self
2020McDonald & DoddsTV showas Archie Addington · 1 episodes
2019The Doctors: The Paul McGann YearsMovie
2019Victorian SensationsTV showas Self - Presenter · 1 episodes
2019The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes OnMovieas Self
2019Swans: Mystery of the MissingMovieas Self - Narrator (voice)
2018Picasso's Last StandMovieas Narrator
2018Oi For England's Green and Pleasant LandMovieas Himself
2017Perplexed MusicMovieas Man
2017BrakesMovieas Peter
2017Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New EvidenceMovieas Narrator (voice)
2017Nero's Sunken CityMovieas Narrator (English Voice)
2017B&BMovieas Josh
2017Wildest EuropeTV showas Narrator · 5 episodes
2016Wildest Islands of IndonesiaTV showas Narrator · 5 episodes
2016China: Between Clouds and DreamsTV showas Self – Narrator · Commissioning Editor · 5 episodes
2016Unfinished: The Making of Massive AttackMovieas Narrator (Voice)2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongMovieas The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015SharkMovieas 配音
2015China - Treasures of the Jade EmpireMovieas Narrator
2015AbsenceMovieas Man
2015The Other Prince WilliamMovieas Self - Narrator (voice)
2015Finding Babylon's Hanging GardenMovieas Narrator (voice)
2015Churchill: When Britain Said NoMovieas Narrator (voice)
2015Shark: Beneath the SurfaceMovieas self, narrator
2015SharkTV showas Himself - Narrator · 3 episodes
2015Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the PeaceMovieas narrator
2015Super Powered OwlsMovieas Narrator
2015Wild Sri LankaTV showas Paul McGann · 3 episodes
2014Wildest Middle EastTV showas Narrator · 5 episodes
2014The Great Wall of China: The Hidden StoryMovieas Himself
2014Secrets of the CastleTV showas Narrator (Voice) · 5 episodes
2014The Minister of Chance: PrologueMovieas Durian
2014Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space RaceMovieas Narrator (Voice)
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonMovieas Self
2014Wildest IndochinaTV showas Narrator (voice) · 5 episodes
2014France: The Wild SideMovieas Narrator
2014Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A GeniusMovie
2014A Little Place Off the Edgware RoadMovieas James Craven2014The MusketeersTV showas St Pierre · as Saint Pierre · 1 episodes
2014Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life PaintingMovieas Narrator2013Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorMovieas The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootMovieas Self2013Doctor Who: The Night of the DoctorMovieas The Doctor
2013JFK's Secret Killer: The EvidenceMovieas Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013Brady and Hindley: PossessionMovieas Narrator (voice)
2013Art Is...Movieas Lulu's Dad
2013Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedTV showas Self · 11 episodes
2012Wildest IslandsTV showas Narrator · 10 episodes2012Ripper StreetTV showas Stanley Bone · 1 episodes
2012Britain's Greatest CodebreakerMovieas Himself - Narrator (voice)2012The Bletchley CircleTV showas John Richards · 1 episodes
2012A Mother's SonTV showas David · 2 episodes
2012Wildest Latin AmericaTV showas Self - Narrator (voice) · 5 episodes
2012SOS: The Titanic InquiryMovieas Sir Rufus Isaacs
2011Digging The Great EscapeMovieas narrator
2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in TimeMovie
2011The 9/11 SurferMovieas Narrator
2010The Day John Lennon DiedMovieas Narrator2010LutherTV showas Mark North · 10 episodes
2009CollisionTV showas Richard Reeves · 5 episodes
2009Moving OnTV showas Phil · Director · 1 episodes2009Lesbian Vampire KillersMovieas Vicar2008Doctor Who: The Next DoctorMovieas The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2008Fables of Forgotten ThingsMovieas Clarence
2008My Dad Was a CommunistMovieas Narrator
2008The True StoryTV showas Narrator · 8 episodes
2008The Ties That Bind UsMovieas Self - Narrator
2007Davros ConnectionsMovieas (archival audio)
2007The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the RestTV showas Himself - Narrator (voice) · 3 episodes
2007Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal TakeoverMovieas Narrator
2007True Dare KissTV showas Nash McKinnon · 6 episodes
2007Always Crashing in the Same CarMovieas Bill Mackinnon
2007World of Compulsive HoardersMovie
2006Tripping OverTV showas Jeremy · 6 episodes
2006If I Had YouMovieas Philip Andrews
2005Ghosts on the UndergroundMovieas Narrator
2005The Orangutan KingMovieas Narrator
2005GypoMovieas Paul
2005KidnappedTV show3 episodes
2005Daphne Ashbrook in the UKMovie
2005Twisted TalesTV showas Phone (voice) · 1 episodes
2005Death of an IdealistMovieas Narrator2004Agatha Christie's MarpleTV showas Dickie Erskine · 1 episodes
2004Lie with MeTV showas Gerry Henson · 2 episodes
2004Zero HourTV showas Narrator (Voice) · 6 episodes
2004Bible MysteriesTV showas Himself-Narrator · 9 episodes
2004Sea of SoulsTV showas Christopher Chambers · 1 episodes2004New TricksTV showas D.C.I. James Larson · 1 episodes
2003Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'Movieas Self
2003OtherworldMovieas King Matholwch (voice)
2003Doctor Who: ShadaMovieas The Doctor (voice)
2003Hornblower: DutyMovieas Lieutenant Bush
2003Hornblower: LoyaltyMovieas Lieutenant Bush
2002The BiographerMovieas Andrew Morton2002Queen of the DamnedMovieas David Talbot
2002Blood StrangersTV showas DC David Ingram · 2 episodes
2001My KingdomMovieas Dean
2001Waking the DeadTV showas ACC Tony Nicholson · 2 episodes
2001Real CrimeTV show11 episodes
2001Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins StoryMovieas Self- Narrator
2001Hornblower: RetributionMovieas Lt. Bush
2001Hornblower: MutinyMovieas Lieutenant Bush
2001Hotel!Movieas Ben Carter
2000Nature BoyTV showas Steve Witton · 4 episodes
1999Withnail and UsMovieas Self
1999ForgottenTV showas Ben Turner · 3 episodes
1999Holby CityTV showas John Gaskell · 52 episodes
1998The Dance of ShivaMovieas Captain Greville
1998HornblowerTV showas William Bush · 4 episodes
1998Our Mutual FriendTV showas Eugene Wrayburn · 4 episodes1997FairyTale: A True StoryMovieas Arthur Wright
1997DowntimeMovieas Rob
1996Testament: The Bible in AnimationTV showas David (voice) · 1 episodes
1996Star Trek StoryMovieas Self - Commentary (voice)1996Doctor WhoMovieas The Doctor
1996Catherine the GreatMovieas Potemkin
1996Bidding Adieu: A Video DiaryMovieas Self
1996The One That Got AwayMovieas Chris Ryan
1996The Merchant of VeniceMovieas Bassanio
1995The Hanging GaleTV showas Liam Phelan · 4 episodes
1995The Hanging GaleMovieas Liam Phelan1993The Three MusketeersMovieas Girard / Jussac1992Alien³Movieas Golic
1992Afraid of the DarkMovieas Tony
1992The Making of 'Alien³'Movieas Self
1990Paper MaskMovieas Matthew Harris
1990Drowning in the Shallow EndMovieas Colin
1990The MonkMovieas Father Lorenzo Rojas
1989DealersMovieas Daniel Pascoe
1989The RainbowMovieas Anton Skrebensky
1989Streets of YesterdayMovieas Joseph
1989Tree of HandsMovieas Barry1989Agatha Christie's PoirotTV showas Dr. Peter Lord · 1 episodes
1988The Importance of Being EarnestMovieas John Worthing1987Empire of the SunMovieas Lieutenant Price
1987Cariani and the CourtesansMovieas Giovanni Cariani1987Withnail & IMovieas ...& I
1986The Monocled MutineerTV showas Percy Toplis · 4 episodes
1986ScreenPlayTV showas Giovanni Cariani · 1 episodes
1985Screen TwoTV showas Colin · 1 episodes
1984Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and MuscleMovieas Mo Morris
1983Natural WorldTV showas Narrator · 5 episodes
1983Give us a BreakTV showas Mo Morris · 8 episodes
1983GaskinMovieas Graham Gaskin
1982Whistling WallyMovieas Norman
1977FishTV show13 episodes
1970Play for TodayTV showas Norman · 1 episodes
1964HorizonTV showas Himself · 1 episodes