Paul McGann

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

14 November 1959, 66 years old

Known For

Alien³

Empire of the Sun

Queen of the Damned

The Three Musketeers

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Withnail & I

Lesbian Vampire Killers

Doctor Who

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

The Marbles

Lord Byron (voice)

2025

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

2025

Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show

The Doctor

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms

The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2024

Churchill’s Forgotten War

Narrator (voice)

2024

The Day of the Sun Dog

Jaggers

2023

The Undertaker

Arthur

2023

Talking Doctor Who

Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2023

Mia and the Dragon Princess

Walsh

2023

Doctor Who Am I

Self

2022

Swallow Your Dreams

James

2022

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

2019

The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On

Self

2019

Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann

2019

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

Narrator (voice)

2019

Picasso's Last Stand

Narrator

2018

Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land

Himself

2018

Brakes

Peter

2017

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

Narrator (voice)

2017

Nero's Sunken City

Narrator (English Voice)

2017

B&B

Josh

2017

Perplexed Music

Man

2017

Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

Narrator (Voice)

2016

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

2015

China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

Narrator

2015

Absence

Man

2015

The Other Prince William

Self - Narrator (voice)

2015

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

Narrator (voice)

2015

Churchill: When Britain Said No

Narrator (voice)

2015

Shark: Beneath the Surface

self, narrator

2015

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

narrator

2015

Super Powered Owls

Narrator

2015

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

Himself

2014

The Minister of Chance: Prologue

Durian

2014

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

Narrator (Voice)

2014

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

Self

2014

Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius

2014

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

James Craven

2014

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

Narrator

2014

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Self

2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2013

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

The Doctor

2013

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

Himself - Narrator (voice)

2013

Brady and Hindley: Possession

Narrator (voice)

2013

Art Is...

Lulu's Dad

2013

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

Himself - Narrator (voice)

2012

Tiger Island

Narrator

2012

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

Sir Rufus Isaacs

2012

Digging The Great Escape

narrator

2011

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

2011

The 9/11 Surfer

Narrator

2011

The Day John Lennon Died

Narrator

2010

Godard & Others

Torrence

2010

Lesbian Vampire Killers

Vicar

2009

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2008

Fables of Forgotten Things

Clarence

2008

My Dad Was a Communist

Narrator

2008

Getting a Head

Self (Narrator)

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

Self - Narrator

2008

Davros Connections

(archival audio)

2007

Always Crashing in the Same Car

Bill Mackinnon

2007

World of Compulsive Hoarders

2007

If I Had You

Philip Andrews

2006

Ghosts on the Underground

Narrator

2005

The Orangutan King

Narrator

2005

Gypo

Paul

2005

Kidnapped

Colonel MacNab

2005

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK

2005

Death of an Idealist

Narrator

2005

Lie with Me

Gerry Henson

2004

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

Self

2003

Listening

Man

2003

Otherworld

King Matholwch (voice)

2003

Doctor Who: Shada

The Doctor (voice)

2003

Hornblower: Duty

Lieutenant Bush

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty

Lieutenant Bush

2003

The Biographer

Andrew Morton

2002

Queen of the Damned

David Talbot

2002

Blood Strangers

DC David Ingram

2002

My Kingdom

Dean

2001

Hornblower: Retribution

Lt. Bush

2001

Hornblower: Mutiny

Lieutenant Bush

2001

Hotel!

Ben Carter

2001

Withnail and Us

Self

1999

The Dance of Shiva

Captain Greville

1998

FairyTale: A True Story

Arthur Wright

1997

Downtime

Rob

1997

Star Trek Story

Self - Commentary (voice)

1996

Doctor Who

The Doctor

1996

Catherine the Great

Potemkin

1996

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

Self

1996

The One That Got Away

Chris Ryan

1996

The Merchant of Venice

Bassanio

1996

The Hanging Gale

Liam Phelan

1995

The Three Musketeers

Girard / Jussac

1993

Alien³

Golic

1992

Afraid of the Dark

Tony

1991

Paper Mask

Matthew Harris

1990

Drowning in the Shallow End

Colin

1990

The Monk

Father Lorenzo Rojas

1990

Dealers

Daniel Pascoe

1989

The Rainbow

Anton Skrebensky

1989

Streets of Yesterday

Joseph

1989

Tree of Hands

Barry

1989

The Importance of Being Earnest

John Worthing

1988

Empire of the Sun

Lieutenant Price

1987

Cariani and the Courtesans

Giovanni Cariani

1987

Withnail & I

...& I

1987

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

Mo Morris

1984

Gaskin

Graham Gaskin

1983

Whistling Wally

Norman

1982