Person

Paul McGann

Acting · Born 1959-11-14 · Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

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.

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  Agatha Christie's Poirot

  Dr. Peter Lord

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  Horizon

  Himself

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  Holby City

  John Gaskell

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  Screen Two

  Colin

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  Natural World

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  Agatha Christie's Marple

  Dickie Erskine

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  Play for Today

  Norman

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  New Tricks

  D.C.I. James Larson

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  Waking the Dead

  ACC Tony Nicholson

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  Luther

  Mark North

• 2026Triesverse: CataclysmThe Doctor
• 2026Good BehaviourRichard
• 2025The MarblesLord Byron (voice)
• 2025BookishMr. Kind
• 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2024Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (8) (archive footage)
• 2024Churchill’s Forgotten WarNarrator (voice)
• 2023The Day of the Sun DogJaggers
• 2023The UndertakerArthur
• 2023Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
• 2023Mia and the Dragon PrincessWalsh
• 2022Doctor Who Am ISelf
• 2022Swallow Your DreamsJames
• 2022AnneMalcolm Thornton MP
• 2021AnnikaJake Strathearn
• 2021Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the WorldSelf - Narrator
• 2020The Big Night InSelf
• 2020McDonald & DoddsArchie Addington
• 2019The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
• 2019Victorian SensationsSelf - Presenter
• 2019The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes OnSelf
• 2019Swans: Mystery of the MissingSelf - Narrator (voice)
• 2018Picasso's Last StandNarrator
• 2018Oi For England's Green and Pleasant LandHimself
• 2017Perplexed MusicMan
• 2017BrakesPeter
• 2017Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New EvidenceNarrator (voice)
• 2017Nero's Sunken CityNarrator (English Voice)
• 2017B&BJosh
• 2017Wildest EuropeNarrator
• 2016Wildest Islands of IndonesiaNarrator
• 2016China: Between Clouds and DreamsCommissioning Editor
• 2016Unfinished: The Making of Massive AttackNarrator (Voice)
• 2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
• 2015China - Treasures of the Jade EmpireNarrator
• 2015AbsenceMan
• 2015The Other Prince WilliamSelf - Narrator (voice)
• 2015Finding Babylon's Hanging GardenNarrator (voice)
• 2015Churchill: When Britain Said NoNarrator (voice)
• 2015Shark: Beneath the Surfaceself, narrator
• 2015SharkHimself - Narrator
• 2015Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peacenarrator
• 2015Super Powered OwlsNarrator
• 2015Wild Sri LankaPaul McGann
• 2014Wildest Middle EastNarrator
• 2014The Great Wall of China: The Hidden StoryHimself
• 2014Secrets of the CastleNarrator (Voice)
• 2014The Minister of Chance: PrologueDurian
• 2014Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space RaceNarrator (Voice)
• 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf
• 2014Wildest IndochinaNarrator (voice)
• 2014France: The Wild SideNarrator
• 2014Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
• 2014A Little Place Off the Edgware RoadJames Craven
• 2014The MusketeersSt Pierre
• 2014Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life PaintingNarrator
• 2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf
• 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (8) (archive footage)
• 2013Doctor Who: The Night of the DoctorThe Doctor
• 2013JFK's Secret Killer: The EvidenceHimself - Narrator (voice)
• 2013Brady and Hindley: PossessionNarrator (voice)
• 2013Art Is...Lulu's Dad
• 2013Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf
• 2012Wildest IslandsNarrator
• 2012Ripper StreetStanley Bone
• 2012Britain's Greatest CodebreakerHimself - Narrator (voice)
• 2012The Bletchley CircleJohn Richards
• 2012A Mother's SonDavid
• 2012Tiger IslandNarrator
• 2012Wildest Latin AmericaSelf - Narrator (voice)
• 2012SOS: The Titanic InquirySir Rufus Isaacs
• 2011Digging The Great Escapenarrator
• 2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
• 2011Gadaffi and the IRANarrator
• 2011The 9/11 SurferNarrator
• 2010The Day John Lennon DiedNarrator
• 2010Godard & OthersTorrence
• 2010LutherMark North
• 2009CollisionRichard Reeves
• 2009Moving OnPhil
• 2009Lesbian Vampire KillersVicar
• 2008Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (8) (archive footage)
• 2008Fables of Forgotten ThingsClarence
• 2008My Dad Was a CommunistNarrator
• 2008The True StoryNarrator
• 2008The Ties That Bind UsSelf - Narrator
• 2007Davros Connections(archival audio)
• 2007The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the RestHimself - Narrator (voice)
• 2007Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal TakeoverNarrator
• 2007True Dare KissNash McKinnon
• 2007Always Crashing in the Same CarBill Mackinnon
• 2007World of Compulsive Hoarders
• 2006Tripping OverJeremy
• 2006If I Had YouPhilip Andrews
• 2005Ghosts on the UndergroundNarrator
• 2005The Orangutan KingNarrator
• 2005GypoPaul
• 2005PsychoNarrator
• 2005KidnappedColonel MacNab
• 2005Kidnapped
• 2005Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
• 2005Twisted TalesPhone (voice)
• 2005Death of an IdealistNarrator
• 2004Agatha Christie's MarpleDickie Erskine
• 2004Lie with MeGerry Henson
• 2004Lie with MeGerry Henson
• 2004Zero HourNarrator (Voice)
• 2004Bible MysteriesHimself-Narrator
• 2004Sea of SoulsChristopher Chambers
• 2004New TricksD.C.I. James Larson
• 2003Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'Self
• 2003ListeningMan
• 2003OtherworldKing Matholwch (voice)
• 2003Doctor Who: ShadaThe Doctor (voice)
• 2003Hornblower: DutyLieutenant Bush
• 2003Hornblower: LoyaltyLieutenant Bush
• 2002The BiographerAndrew Morton
• 2002Queen of the DamnedDavid Talbot
• 2002Blood StrangersDC David Ingram
• 2002Blood StrangersDC David Ingram
• 2001Sweet RevengePatrick Vine
• 2001My KingdomDean
• 2001Waking the DeadACC Tony Nicholson
• 2001Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins StorySelf- Narrator
• 2001Hornblower: RetributionLt. Bush
• 2001Hornblower: MutinyLieutenant Bush
• 2001Hotel!Ben Carter
• 2000FishJonathan Vishnevski
• 2000Nature BoySteve Witton
• 1999Withnail and UsSelf
• 1999ForgottenBen Turner
• 1999Holby CityJohn Gaskell
• 1998The Dance of ShivaCaptain Greville
• 1998HornblowerWilliam Bush
• 1998Our Mutual FriendEugene Wrayburn
• 1997FairyTale: A True StoryArthur Wright
• 1997DowntimeRob
• 1996Testament: The Bible in AnimationDavid (voice)
• 1996Star Trek StorySelf - Commentary (voice)
• 1996Doctor WhoThe Doctor
• 1996Catherine the GreatPotemkin
• 1996Bidding Adieu: A Video DiarySelf
• 1996The One That Got AwayChris Ryan
• 1996The Merchant of VeniceBassanio
• 1995The Hanging GaleLiam Phelan
• 1995The Hanging GaleLiam Phelan
• 1993The Three MusketeersGirard / Jussac
• 1992Nice TownJoe Thompson
• 1992Alien³Golic
• 1991Afraid of the DarkTony
• 1990Paper MaskMatthew Harris
• 1990Drowning in the Shallow EndColin
• 1990The MonkFather Lorenzo Rojas
• 1989DealersDaniel Pascoe
• 1989The RainbowAnton Skrebensky
• 1989Streets of YesterdayJoseph
• 1989Tree of HandsBarry
• 1989Agatha Christie's PoirotDr. Peter Lord
• 1988The Importance of Being EarnestJohn Worthing
• 1987Empire of the SunLieutenant Price
• 1987Cariani and the CourtesansGiovanni Cariani
• 1987Withnail & I...& I
• 1986The Monocled MutineerPercy Toplis
• 1986Sunday PremierePercy Toplis
• 1986ScreenPlayGiovanni Cariani
• 1985Screen TwoColin
• 1984Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and MuscleMo Morris
• 1983Natural WorldNarrator
• 1983Give us a BreakMo Morris
• 1983GaskinGraham Gaskin
• 1982Whistling WallyNorman
• 1977Fish
• 1970Play for TodayNorman
• 1964HorizonHimself