Acting

Paul McGann

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.

Credits

Newest first

Triesverse: Cataclysm
as The Doctor
2026
Good Behaviour
as Richard
2026
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)
2025
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War
as Narrator (voice)
2024
The Day of the Sun Dog
as Jaggers
2023
The Undertaker
as Arthur
2023
Talking Doctor Who
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023
Mia and the Dragon Princess
as Walsh
2023
Doctor Who Am I
as Self
2022
Swallow Your Dreams
as James
2022
Anne
as Malcolm Thornton MP
2022
Annika
as Jake Strathearn
2021
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
as Self - Narrator
2021
The Big Night In
as Self
2020
McDonald & Dodds
as Archie Addington
2020
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
Victorian Sensations
as Self - Presenter
2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
as Self
2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
Picasso's Last Stand
as Narrator
2018
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
as Himself
2018
Perplexed Music
as Man
2017
Brakes
as Peter
2017
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Nero's Sunken City
as Narrator (English Voice)
2017
B&B
as Josh
2017
Wildest Europe
as Narrator
2017
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
as Narrator
2016
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
as Self – Narrator
2016
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
Commissioning Editor
2016
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
as Narrator (Voice)
2016
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
2015
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
as Narrator
2015
Absence
as Man
2015
The Other Prince William
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Churchill: When Britain Said No
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Shark: Beneath the Surface
as self, narrator
2015
Shark
as Himself - Narrator
2015
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
as narrator
2015
Super Powered Owls
as Narrator
2015
Wild Sri Lanka
as Paul McGann
2015
Wildest Middle East
as Narrator
2014
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
as Himself
2014
Secrets of the Castle
as Narrator (Voice)
2014
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
as Durian
2014
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
as Narrator (Voice)
2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
as Self
2014
Wildest Indochina
as Narrator (voice)
2014
France: The Wild Side
as Narrator
2014
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
as James Craven
2014
The Musketeers
as St Pierre
2014
The Musketeers
as Saint Pierre
2014
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
as Narrator
2014
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as Self
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as The Doctor
2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013
Brady and Hindley: Possession
as Narrator (voice)
2013
Art Is...
as Lulu's Dad
2013
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
as Self
2013
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
A Mother's Son
as David
2012
Tiger Island
as Narrator
2012
Wildest Latin America
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
2012
Digging The Great Escape
as narrator
2011
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Gadaffi and the IRA
as Narrator
2011
The 9/11 Surfer
as Narrator
2011
The Day John Lennon Died
as Narrator
2010
Godard & Others
as Torrence
2010
Luther
as Mark North
2010