Paul McGann

Personal Info

Birthday

November 14, 1959

(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

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Marple

Play for Today

Luther

Ripper Street

Natural World

New Tricks

Waking the Dead

Filmography

2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
as The Doctor
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Churchill’s Forgotten War
as Narrator (voice)
2023
The Day of the Sun Dog
as Jaggers
The Undertaker
as Arthur
Talking Doctor Who
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess
as Walsh
2022
Doctor Who Am I
as Self
Swallow Your Dreams
as James
2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
as Self
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
as Narrator (voice)
2018
Picasso's Last Stand
as Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
as Himself
2017
Brakes
as Peter
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
as Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City
as Narrator (English Voice)
B&B
as Josh
Perplexed Music
as Man
2016
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
as Narrator (Voice)
2015
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
as Narrator
Absence
as Man
The Other Prince William
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
as Narrator (voice)
Churchill: When Britain Said No
as Narrator (voice)
Shark: Beneath the Surface
as self, narrator
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
as narrator
Super Powered Owls
as Narrator
2014
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
as Himself
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
as Durian
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
as Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
as Self
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
as James Craven
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)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as Self
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as The Doctor
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Brady and Hindley: Possession
as Narrator (voice)
Art Is...
as Lulu's Dad
2012
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Tiger Island
as Narrator
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
2011
Digging The Great Escape
as narrator
The 9/11 Surfer
as Narrator
2010
The Day John Lennon Died
as Narrator
Godard & Others
as Torrence
2009
Lesbian Vampire Killers
as Vicar
2008
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Fables of Forgotten Things
as Clarence
My Dad Was a Communist
as Narrator
The Ties That Bind Us
as Narrator
2007
Davros Connections
as (archival audio)
Always Crashing in the Same Car
as Bill Mackinnon
2006
If I Had You
as Philip Andrews
2005
Ghosts on the Underground
as Narrator
The Orangutan King
as Narrator
Gypo
as Paul
Kidnapped
as Colonel MacNab
Death of an Idealist
as Narrator
2004
Lie with Me
as Gerry Henson
2003
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
as Self
Listening
as Man
Otherworld
as King Matholwch (voice)
Doctor Who: Shada
as The Doctor (voice)
Hornblower: Duty
as Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Lieutenant Bush
2002
The Biographer
as Andrew Morton
Queen of the Damned
as David Talbot
Blood Strangers
as DC David Ingram
2001
My Kingdom
as Dean
Hornblower: Retribution
as Lt. Bush
Hornblower: Mutiny
as Lieutenant Bush
Hotel!
as Ben Carter
1999
Withnail and Us
as Self
1998
The Dance of Shiva
as Captain Greville
1997
FairyTale: A True Story
as Arthur Wright
Downtime
as Rob
1996
Star Trek Story
as Self - Commentary (voice)
Doctor Who
as The Doctor
Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
as Self
The One That Got Away
as Chris Ryan
The Merchant of Venice
as Bassanio
1993
The Three Musketeers
as Girard / Jussac
1992
Alien³
as Golic
1991
Afraid of the Dark
as Tony
1990
Paper Mask
as Matthew Harris
Drowning in the Shallow End
as Colin
The Monk
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
1989
Dealers
as Daniel Pascoe
The Rainbow
as Anton Skrebensky
Streets of Yesterday
as Joseph
Tree of Hands
as Barry
1988
The Importance of Being Earnest
as John Worthing
1987
Empire of the Sun
as Lieutenant Price
Cariani and the Courtesans
as Giovanni Cariani
Withnail & I
as ...& I
1984
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
as Mo Morris
1983
Gaskin
as Graham Gaskin
1982
Whistling Wally
as Norman