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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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Credits · 145

2025 · Mr. Kind

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025 · The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024 · The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Churchill’s Forgotten War

2024 · Narrator (voice)

Talking Doctor Who

2023 · Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Mia and the Dragon Princess

Doctor Who Am I

Swallow Your Dreams

2022 · Malcolm Thornton MP

2021 · Jake Strathearn

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

2021 · Self - Narrator

The Big Night In

McDonald & Dodds

2020 · Archie Addington

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

Victorian Sensations

2019 · Self - Presenter

The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

2019 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

2017 · Narrator (voice)

Nero's Sunken City

2017 · Narrator (English Voice)

2017 · Narrator

Wildest Islands of Indonesia

2016 · Narrator

China: Between Clouds and Dreams

2016 · Commissioning Editor

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015 · The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

2015 · Narrator

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

2015 · Narrator (voice)

Churchill: When Britain Said No

2015 · Narrator (voice)

2015 · Himself - Narrator

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

2015 · narrator

2015 · Paul McGann

Wildest Middle East

2014 · Narrator

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

2014 · Himself

Secrets of the Castle

2014 · Narrator (Voice)

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

2014 · Narrator (Voice)

Wildest Indochina

2014 · Narrator (voice)

2014 · St Pierre

Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting

2014 · Narrator

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013 · The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

2013 · The Doctor

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

2013 · Himself - Narrator (voice)

Brady and Hindley: Possession

2013 · Narrator (voice)

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

Wildest Islands

2012 · Narrator

2012 · Stanley Bone

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

2012 · Himself - Narrator (voice)

The Bletchley Circle

2012 · John Richards

Wildest Latin America

2012 · Self - Narrator (voice)

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

2012 · Sir Rufus Isaacs

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

The 9/11 Surfer

2011 · Narrator

The Day John Lennon Died

2010 · Narrator

Godard & Others

Godard & Others

2010 · Torrence

2010 · Mark North

2009 · Richard Reeves

Lesbian Vampire Killers

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008 · The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

Fables of Forgotten Things

2008 · Clarence

2008 · Narrator

The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest

2007 · Himself - Narrator (voice)

Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover

2007 · Narrator

2007 · Nash McKinnon

Always Crashing in the Same Car

2007 · Bill Mackinnon

World of Compulsive Hoarders

2006 · Philip Andrews

Ghosts on the Underground

2005 · Narrator

The Orangutan King

2005 · Narrator

2005 · Narrator

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK

2005 · Phone (voice)

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004 · Dickie Erskine

2004 · Gerry Henson

2004 · Narrator (Voice)

Bible Mysteries

2004 · Himself-Narrator

2004 · Christopher Chambers

2004 · D.C.I. James Larson

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

2003 · King Matholwch (voice)

Doctor Who: Shada

2003 · The Doctor (voice)

Hornblower: Duty

2003 · Lieutenant Bush

Hornblower: Loyalty

2003 · Lieutenant Bush

2002 · Andrew Morton

Queen of the Damned

2002 · David Talbot

Blood Strangers

2002 · DC David Ingram

2001 · Patrick Vine

Waking the Dead

2001 · ACC Tony Nicholson

Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story

2001 · Self- Narrator

Hornblower: Retribution

2001 · Lt. Bush

Hornblower: Mutiny

2001 · Lieutenant Bush

2001 · Ben Carter

2000 · Jonathan Vishnevski

2000 · Steve Witton

Withnail and Us

1999 · Ben Turner

1999 · John Gaskell

The Dance of Shiva

1998 · Captain Greville

1998 · William Bush

Our Mutual Friend

1998 · Eugene Wrayburn

FairyTale: A True Story

1997 · Arthur Wright

Testament: The Bible in Animation

1996 · David (voice)

Star Trek Story

1996 · Self - Commentary (voice)

1996 · The Doctor

Catherine the Great

1996 · Potemkin

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

The One That Got Away

1996 · Chris Ryan

The Merchant of Venice

1996 · Bassanio

The Hanging Gale

1995 · Liam Phelan

The Three Musketeers

1993 · Girard / Jussac

1992 · Joe Thompson

Afraid of the Dark

1990 · Matthew Harris

Drowning in the Shallow End

1990 · Father Lorenzo Rojas

1989 · Daniel Pascoe

1989 · Anton Skrebensky

Streets of Yesterday

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 · Dr. Peter Lord

The Importance of Being Earnest

1988 · John Worthing

Empire of the Sun

1987 · Lieutenant Price

Cariani and the Courtesans

1987 · Giovanni Cariani

The Monocled Mutineer

1986 · Percy Toplis

Sunday Premiere

Sunday Premiere

1986 · Percy Toplis

1986 · Giovanni Cariani

1983 · Narrator

Give us a Break

1983 · Mo Morris

1983 · Graham Gaskin

1964 · Himself

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