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Personal Info

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

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Churchill’s Forgotten War as Narrator (voice)

2023

The Undertaker as Arthur
Talking Doctor Who as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2022

Anne as Malcolm Thornton MP

2021

Annika as Jake Strathearn

2020

McDonald & Dodds as Archie Addington

2019

Swans: Mystery of the Missing as Narrator (voice)
Victorian Sensations as Self - Presenter

2018

2017

Nero's Sunken City as Narrator (English Voice)
Brakes as Peter
B&B as Josh
Wildest Europe as Narrator

2016

2015

Super Powered Owls as Narrator
Absence as Man
The Other Prince William as Self - Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Shark as Himself - Narrator
Wild Sri Lanka as Paul McGann

2014

Secrets of the Castle as Narrator (Voice)
The Musketeers as St Pierre
The Musketeers as Saint Pierre
Wildest Indochina as Narrator (voice)

2013

Brady and Hindley: Possession as Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Art Is... as Lulu's Dad

2012

Tiger Island as Narrator
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker as Himself - Narrator (voice)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry as Sir Rufus Isaacs
Wildest Latin America as Self - Narrator (voice)
Wildest Islands as Narrator
Ripper Street as Stanley Bone

2011

The 9/11 Surfer as Narrator

2010

Godard & Others as Torrence
Luther as Mark North

2009

Collision as Richard Reeves
Moving On as Phil

2008

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2007

Davros Connections as (archival audio)
True Dare Kiss as Nash McKinnon
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2006

If I Had You as Philip Andrews
Tripping Over as Jeremy

2005

Gypo as Paul
The Orangutan King as Narrator
Kidnapped as Colonel MacNab
Doctor Who as The Doctor (archive footage)
Psycho as Narrator
Doctor Who as The Doctor

2004

Lie with Me as Gerry Henson
Sea of Souls as Christopher Chambers
New Tricks as D.C.I. James Larson
Bible Mysteries as Himself-Narrator
Agatha Christie's Marple as Dickie Erskine

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty as Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Duty as Lieutenant Bush
Otherworld as King Matholwch (voice)
Doctor Who: Shada as The Doctor (voice)
Listening as Man

2002

Queen of the Damned as David Talbot
Blood Strangers as DC David Ingram
The Biographer as Andrew Morton

2001

Hornblower: Mutiny as Lieutenant Bush
My Kingdom as Dean
Hotel! as Ben Carter
Sweet Revenge as Patrick Vine
Waking the Dead as ACC Tony Nicholson

2000

Fish as Jonathan Vishnevski
Nature Boy as Steve Witton

1999

Forgotten as Ben Turner

1998

The Dance of Shiva as Captain Greville
Our Mutual Friend as Eugene Wrayburn
Hornblower as William Bush

1997

Downtime as Rob
FairyTale: A True Story as Arthur Wright
Jonathan Creek as Hugo Dore

1996

The One That Got Away as Chris Ryan
Doctor Who as The Doctor
Star Trek Story as Self - Commentary (voice)

1995

The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan
The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan

1993

The Three Musketeers as Girard / Jussac

1992

Alien³ as Golic
Nice Town as Joe Thompson

1991

1990

Paper Mask as Matthew Harris
The Monk as Father Lorenzo Rojas

1989

The Rainbow as Anton Skrebensky
Dealers as Daniel Pascoe
Tree of Hands as Barry
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Dr. Peter Lord

1988

1987

Withnail & I as ...& I
Cariani and the Courtesans as Giovanni Cariani
Empire of the Sun as Lieutenant Price

1986

The Monocled Mutineer as Percy Toplis

1984

1983

Gaskin as Graham Gaskin
Natural World as Narrator
Give us a Break as Mo Morris

1982

Whistling Wally as Norman

1977

1970

Play for Today as Norman

1964

Horizon as Himself

1963

Doctor Who as The Doctor

Directing

2009

Moving On as Director

Crew

2016

China: Between Clouds and Dreams as Commissioning Editor