About
Paul McGann
Overview
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
Acting |
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| 2024 | Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show | Actor | The Doctor | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Doctor Who at the Proms | Actor | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2024 | Chinatown: A World in the Heart of the City | Actor | Self (Archive Footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | The Day of the Sun Dog | Actor | Jaggers | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | The Undertaker | Actor | Arthur | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | Talking Doctor Who | Actor | Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Mia and the Dragon Princess | Actor | Walsh | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Doctor Who Am I | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Swallow Your Dreams | Actor | James | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Anne | Actor | Malcolm Thornton MP | 69 Fair |
| 2021 | Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World | Actor | Self - Narrator | 67 Fair |
| 2019 | The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2019 | The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2018 | Picasso's Last Stand | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | Brakes | Actor | Peter | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Nero's Sunken City | Actor | Narrator (English Voice) | 58 Average |
| 2017 | B&B | Actor | Josh | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Wildest Europe | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | Perplexed Music | Actor | Man | N/A N/A |
| 2016 | Wildest Islands of Indonesia | Actor | Narrator | 70 Good |
| 2016 | Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack | Actor | Narrator (Voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | China - Treasures of the Jade Empire | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
| 2015 | Absence | Actor | Man | 58 Average |
| 2015 | The Other Prince William | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Churchill: When Britain Said No | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Shark | Actor | Himself - Narrator | 71 Good |
| 2015 | Super Powered Owls | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | Wild Sri Lanka | Actor | Paul McGann | 69 Fair |
| 2014 | Wildest Middle East | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story | Actor | Himself | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Secrets of the Castle | Actor | Narrator (Voice) | 71 Good |
| 2014 | Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race | Actor | Narrator (Voice) | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | Wildest Indochina | Actor | Narrator | 62 Fair |
| 2014 | Wildest Indochina | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2014 | A Little Place Off the Edgware Road | Actor | James Craven | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Actor | Self | 61 Fair |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | Actor | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | 72 Good |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | Actor | The Doctor | 61 Fair |
| 2013 | JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence | Actor | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Brady and Hindley: Possession | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Art Is... | Actor | Lulu's Dad | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | Actor | Self | 69 Fair |
| 2012 | Wildest Islands | Actor | Narrator | 70 Good |
| 2012 | Britain's Greatest Codebreaker | Actor | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2012 | A Mother's Son | Actor | David | 69 Fair |
| 2012 | Tiger Island | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | Wildest Latin America | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2012 | SOS: The Titanic Inquiry | Actor | Sir Rufus Isaacs | 58 Average |
| 2011 | Digging The Great Escape | Actor | narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2011 | Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2011 | The 9/11 Surfer | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | The Day John Lennon Died | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Godard & Others | Actor | Torrence | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Collision | Actor | Richard Reeves | 69 Fair |
| 2009 | Lesbian Vampire Killers | Actor | Vicar | 56 Average |
| 2008 | Fables of Forgotten Things | Actor | Clarence | 59 Average |
| 2008 | My Dad Was a Communist | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Davros Connections | Actor | (archival audio) | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest | Actor | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 70 Good |
| 2007 | True Dare Kiss | Actor | Nash McKinnon | 70 Good |
| 2007 | Always Crashing in the Same Car | Actor | Bill Mackinnon | 59 Average |
| 2007 | World of Compulsive Hoarders | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2006 | Tripping Over | Actor | Jeremy | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | If I Had You | Actor | Philip Andrews | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Ghosts on the Underground | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2005 | The Orangutan King | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Gypo | Actor | Paul | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Psycho | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Kidnapped | Actor | Colonel MacNab | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Kidnapped | Actor | 69 Fair |
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| 2005 | Daphne Ashbrook in the UK | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2005 | Death of an Idealist | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Lie with Me | Actor | Gerry Henson | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Bible Mysteries | Actor | Himself-Narrator | 69 Fair |
| 2003 | Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Listening | Actor | Man | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Otherworld | Actor | King Matholwch (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Doctor Who: Shada | Actor | The Doctor (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Hornblower: Duty | Actor | Lieutenant Bush | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Hornblower: Loyalty | Actor | Lieutenant Bush | 59 Average |
| 2002 | The Biographer | Actor | Andrew Morton | N/A N/A |
| 2002 | Queen of the Damned | Actor | David Talbot | 60 Fair |
| 2002 | Blood Strangers | Actor | DC David Ingram | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Sweet Revenge | Actor | Patrick Vine | N/A N/A |
| 2001 | My Kingdom | Actor | Dean | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Hornblower: Retribution | Actor | Lt. Bush | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Hornblower: Mutiny | Actor | Lieutenant Bush | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Hotel! | Actor | Ben Carter | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Fish | Actor | Jonathan Vishnevski | N/A N/A |
| 2000 | Nature Boy | Actor | Steve Witton | 70 Good |
| 1999 | Withnail and Us | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Forgotten | Actor | Ben Turner | 69 Fair |
| 1998 | The Dance of Shiva | Actor | Captain Greville | N/A N/A |
| 1998 | Hornblower | Actor | William Bush | 71 Good |
| 1998 | Our Mutual Friend | Actor | Eugene Wrayburn | 70 Good |
| 1997 | FairyTale: A True Story | Actor | Arthur Wright | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Downtime | Actor | Rob | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Star Trek Story | Actor | Self - Commentary (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | Doctor Who | Actor | The Doctor | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Catherine the Great | Actor | Potemkin | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1996 | The One That Got Away | Actor | Chris Ryan | 58 Average |
| 1996 | The Merchant of Venice | Actor | Bassanio | 58 Average |
| 1995 | The Hanging Gale | Actor | Liam Phelan | 68 Fair |
| 1995 | The Hanging Gale | Actor | Liam Phelan | 60 Fair |
| 1993 | The Three Musketeers | Actor | Girard / Jussac | 62 Fair |
| 1992 | Nice Town | Actor | Joe Thompson | 69 Fair |
| 1992 | Alien³ | Actor | Golic | 63 Fair |
| 1991 | Afraid of the Dark | Actor | Tony | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Paper Mask | Actor | Matthew Harris | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Drowning in the Shallow End | Actor | Colin | N/A N/A |
| 1990 | The Monk | Actor | Father Lorenzo Rojas | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Dealers | Actor | Daniel Pascoe | 59 Average |
| 1989 | The Rainbow | Actor | Anton Skrebensky | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Streets of Yesterday | Actor | Joseph | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Tree of Hands | Actor | Barry | N/A N/A |
| 1988 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Actor | John Worthing | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Empire of the Sun | Actor | Lieutenant Price | 71 Good |
| 1987 | Cariani and the Courtesans | Actor | Giovanni Cariani | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | Withnail & I | Actor | ...& I | 66 Fair |
| 1986 | The Monocled Mutineer | Actor | Percy Toplis | 69 Fair |
| 1984 | Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle | Actor | Mo Morris | N/A N/A |
| 1983 | Give us a Break | Actor | Mo Morris | 69 Fair |
| 1983 | Gaskin | Actor | Graham Gaskin | N/A N/A |
| 1982 | Whistling Wally | Actor | Norman | N/A N/A |
| Swans: Mystery of the Missing | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
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| 2016 | China: Between Clouds and Dreams | Crew | Commissioning Editor | N/A N/A |