Portrait of Paul McGann

Paul McGann

Acting

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.

Born: November 14, 1959

Place of Birth: Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

Filmography

2025
The Marbles

as Lord Byron (voice)

2025
Bookish

as Mr. Kind

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
Churchill’s Forgotten War

as Narrator (voice)

2023
2023
Talking Doctor Who

as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2022
2022
Anne

as Malcolm Thornton MP

2021
Annika

as Jake Strathearn

2020
McDonald & Dodds

as Archie Addington

2019
Victorian Sensations

as Self - Presenter

2019
2018
2017
Brakes

as Peter

2017
Nero's Sunken City

as Narrator (English Voice)

2017
B&B

as Josh

2017
Wildest Europe

as Narrator

2017
2015
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

2015
Absence

as Man

2015
The Other Prince William

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2015
2015
2015
2015
Shark

as Himself - Narrator

2015
2015
Wild Sri Lanka

as Paul McGann

2014
2014
Secrets of the Castle

as Narrator (Voice)

2014
Wildest Indochina

as Narrator (voice)

2014
The Musketeers

as St Pierre

2014
The Musketeers

as Saint Pierre

2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2013
2013
Art Is...

as Lulu's Dad

2012
Wildest Islands

as Narrator

2012
Ripper Street

as Stanley Bone

2012
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2012
The Bletchley Circle

as John Richards

2012
2012
Wildest Latin America

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

as Sir Rufus Isaacs

2011
The 9/11 Surfer

as Narrator

2010
Luther

as Mark North

2009
Collision

as Richard Reeves

2009
Moving On

as Phil

2008
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2008
2008
The Ties That Bind Us

as Self - Narrator

2007
Davros Connections

as (archival audio)

2007
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2007
True Dare Kiss

as Nash McKinnon

2007
2006
Tripping Over

as Jeremy

2006
If I Had You

as Philip Andrews

2005
2005
Gypo

as Paul

2005
Kidnapped

as Colonel MacNab

2005
Twisted Tales

as Phone (voice)

2005
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Dickie Erskine

2004
Lie with Me

as Gerry Henson

2004
Bible Mysteries

as Himself-Narrator

2004
Sea of Souls

as Christopher Chambers

2004
New Tricks

as D.C.I. James Larson

2003
Otherworld

as King Matholwch (voice)

2003
Doctor Who: Shada

as The Doctor (voice)

2003
Hornblower: Duty

as Lieutenant Bush

2003
Hornblower: Loyalty

as Lieutenant Bush

2002
The Biographer

as Andrew Morton

2002
Queen of the Damned

as David Talbot

2002
Blood Strangers

as DC David Ingram

2001
My Kingdom

as Dean

2001
Waking the Dead

as ACC Tony Nicholson

2001
Hornblower: Mutiny

as Lieutenant Bush

2001
Hotel!

as Ben Carter

2000
Nature Boy

as Steve Witton

1999
1999
Forgotten

as Ben Turner

1999
Holby City

as John Gaskell

1998
The Dance of Shiva

as Captain Greville

1998
Hornblower

as William Bush

1998
Our Mutual Friend

as Eugene Wrayburn

1997
FairyTale: A True Story

as Arthur Wright

1997
Downtime

as Rob

1996
Star Trek Story

as Self - Commentary (voice)

1996
Doctor Who

as The Doctor

1996
1996
1996
1995
The Hanging Gale

as Liam Phelan

1995
The Hanging Gale

as Liam Phelan

1993
The Three Musketeers

as Girard / Jussac

1992
Nice Town

as Joe Thompson

1992
Alien³

as Golic

1990
Paper Mask

as Matthew Harris

1990
The Monk

as Father Lorenzo Rojas

1989
Dealers

as Daniel Pascoe

1989
The Rainbow

as Anton Skrebensky

1989
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Dr. Peter Lord

1987
Empire of the Sun

as Lieutenant Price

1987
Cariani and the Courtesans

as Giovanni Cariani

1987
Withnail & I

as ...& I

1986
The Monocled Mutineer

as Percy Toplis

1983
Natural World

as Narrator

1983
Give us a Break

as Mo Morris

1983
Gaskin

as Graham Gaskin

1982
1977
1970
1964
Horizon

as Himself