Paul McGann

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-11-14 (66 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.

Acting

2017

Nero's Sunken City

as Narrator (English Voice)

1996

2005

Gypo

as Paul

1992

Alien³

as Golic

2019

1987

Withnail & I

as ...& I

1989

The Rainbow

as Anton Skrebensky

2001

Hornblower: Mutiny

as Lieutenant Bush

1996

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

2012

Tiger Island

as Narrator

2015

2005

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty

as Lieutenant Bush

2003

Hornblower: Duty

as Lieutenant Bush

2001

My Kingdom

as Dean

2010

Godard & Others

as Torrence

2012

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1996

1989

Dealers

as Daniel Pascoe

1990

Paper Mask

as Matthew Harris

1997

Downtime

as Rob

2003

Otherworld

as King Matholwch (voice)

1999

2006

If I Had You

as Philip Andrews

2013

2001

Hotel!

as Ben Carter

1996

Star Trek Story

as Self - Commentary (voice)

1996

2023

2023

Talking Doctor Who

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

2022

2008

2004

Lie with Me

as Gerry Henson

1987

Cariani and the Courtesans

as Giovanni Cariani

2005

1987

Empire of the Sun

as Lieutenant Price

2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

1983

Gaskin

as Graham Gaskin

2002

Queen of the Damned

as David Talbot

1993

The Three Musketeers

as Girard / Jussac

1998

The Dance of Shiva

as Captain Greville

1995

The Hanging Gale

as Liam Phelan

2017

Brakes

as Peter

2007

2015

Absence

as Man

2011

The 9/11 Surfer

as Narrator

2002

Blood Strangers

as DC David Ingram

2017

B&B

as Josh

1997

FairyTale: A True Story

as Arthur Wright

1990

The Monk

as Father Lorenzo Rojas

2015

The Other Prince William

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2015

2018

2013

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2013

Art Is...

as Lulu's Dad

2015

2007

Davros Connections

as (archival audio)

2012

SOS: The Titanic Inquiry

as Sir Rufus Isaacs

2002

The Biographer

as Andrew Morton

2003

Doctor Who: Shada

as The Doctor (voice)

1982

2003

Listening

as Man

1989

2017

2005

Kidnapped

as Colonel MacNab

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2008

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

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

2024

Churchill’s Forgotten War

as Narrator (voice)

2008

2025

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

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