Paul McGann
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-11-14 (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
Acting
(2025)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2024)
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
(2024)
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
as The Doctor
(2024)
Churchill’s Forgotten War
as Narrator (voice)
(2023)
The Undertaker
as Arthur
(2023)
Mia and the Dragon Princess
as Walsh
(2023)
The Day of the Sun Dog
as Jaggers
(2023)
Talking Doctor Who
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
(2022)
Doctor Who Am I
as Self
(2022)
Swallow Your Dreams
as James
(2019)
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
(2018)
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
as Himself
(2018)
Picasso's Last Stand
as Narrator
(2017)
B&B
as Josh
(2017)
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
Brakes
as Peter
(2017)
Nero's Sunken City
as Narrator (English Voice)
(2017)
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)
(2015)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
as Narrator
(2015)
Churchill: When Britain Said No
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Absence
as Man
(2015)
Super Powered Owls
as Narrator
(2015)
Shark: Beneath the Surface
as self, narrator
(2015)
The Other Prince William
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
as narrator
(2014)
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
as James Craven
(2014)
(2014)
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
as Narrator (Voice)
(2014)
(2014)
(2014)
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
as Durian
(2013)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
(2013)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as Self
(2013)
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as The Doctor
(2013)
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
(2013)
Art Is...
as Lulu's Dad
(2013)
Brady and Hindley: Possession
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
(2012)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
(2012)
Tiger Island
as Narrator
(2011)
(2011)
Digging The Great Escape
as narrator
(2011)
The 9/11 Surfer
as Narrator
(2010)
The Day John Lennon Died
as Narrator
(2010)
Godard & Others
as Torrence
(2009)
Lesbian Vampire Killers
as Vicar
(2008)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
(2008)
The Ties That Bind Us
as Narrator
(2008)
Fables of Forgotten Things
as Clarence
(2008)
My Dad Was a Communist
as Narrator
(2007)
Always Crashing in the Same Car
as Bill Mackinnon
(2007)
Davros Connections
as (archival audio)
(2007)
(2006)
If I Had You
as Philip Andrews
(2005)
Kidnapped
as Colonel MacNab
(2005)
Gypo
as Paul
(2005)
The Orangutan King
as Narrator
(2005)
(2005)
Ghosts on the Underground
as Narrator
(2005)
Death of an Idealist
as Narrator
(2004)
Lie with Me
as Gerry Henson
(2003)
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Lieutenant Bush
(2003)
Hornblower: Duty
as Lieutenant Bush
(2003)
Doctor Who: Shada
as The Doctor (voice)
(2003)
(2003)
Listening
as Man
(2003)
Otherworld
as King Matholwch (voice)
(2002)
Queen of the Damned
as David Talbot
(2002)
Blood Strangers
as DC David Ingram
(2002)
The Biographer
as Andrew Morton
(2001)
My Kingdom
as Dean
(2001)
Hornblower: Retribution
as Lt. Bush
(2001)
Hornblower: Mutiny
as Lieutenant Bush
(2001)
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
(1997)
Downtime
as Rob
(1996)
Doctor Who
as The Doctor
(1996)
The One That Got Away
as Chris Ryan
(1996)
Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
(1996)
Star Trek Story
as Self - Commentary (voice)
(1996)
The Merchant of Venice
as Bassanio
(1996)
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
as Self
(1995)
The Hanging Gale
as Liam Phelan
(1993)
The Three Musketeers
as Girard / Jussac
(1992)
Alien³
as Golic
(1991)
Afraid of the Dark
as Tony
(1990)
Paper Mask
as Matthew Harris
(1990)
The Monk
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
(1990)
Drowning in the Shallow End
as Colin
(1989)
The Rainbow
as Anton Skrebensky
(1989)
Streets of Yesterday
as Joseph
(1989)
Dealers
as Daniel Pascoe
(1989)
Tree of Hands
as Barry
(1988)
The Importance of Being Earnest
as John Worthing
(1987)
Empire of the Sun
as Lieutenant Price
(1987)
Withnail & I
as ...& I
(1987)
Cariani and the Courtesans
as Giovanni Cariani
(1984)
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
as Mo Morris
(1983)
Gaskin
as Graham Gaskin
(1982)
Whistling Wally
as Norman