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.
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Filmography
all 168
Movies 106
TV Shows 62
self 40
Narrator 30
Voice 4
Director 1
Jaggers
The Day of the Sun Dog (2023)
Movie
Arthur
The Undertaker (2023)
Movie
Self
Talking Doctor Who (2023)
Movie
Walsh
Mia and the Dragon Princess (2023)
Movie
Self
Doctor Who Am I (2022)
Movie
9
The Doctor (8)
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor (2022)
Movie
James
Swallow Your Dreams (2022)
Movie
Self - Narrator
The Man With a Penis on His Arm (2022)
Movie
Malcolm Thornton MP
Anne (2022)
TV
Jake Strathearn
Annika (2021)
TV
Self - Narrator
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (2021)
TV
Archie Addington
McDonald & Dodds (2020)
TV
Self - Presenter
Victorian Sensations (2019)
TV
Self - Presenter
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On (2019)
Movie
Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann (2019)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Swans: Mystery of the Missing (2019)
Movie
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years (2019)
Movie
Narrator
Picasso's Last Stand (2018)
Movie
Peter
Brakes (2017)
Movie
Narrator (voice)
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)
Movie
Narrator
Big Pacific (2017)
TV
Narrator (English Voice)
Nero's Sunken City (2017)
Movie
Josh
B&B (2017)
Movie
Narrator
Wildest Europe (2017)
TV
Man
Perplexed Music (2017)
Movie
Narrator
Wildest Islands of Indonesia (2016)
TV
Self - Narrator
China: Between Clouds and Dreams (2016)
TV
Narrator (Voice)
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack (2016)
Movie
Actor
Eden (2016)
TV
Narrator
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire (2015)
Movie
Man
Absence (2015)
Movie
Narrator
Cleopatra's Lost Tomb (2015)
Movie
Narrator
The Other Prince William (2015)
Movie
Narrator
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden (2015)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Churchill: When Britain Said No (2015)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Shark (2015)
TV
1
Self - Narrator
Super Powered Owls (2015)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Wild Sri Lanka (2015)
TV
Narrator
Wildest Middle East (2014)
TV
Narrator
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story (2014)
Movie
Narrator
Secrets of the Castle (2014)
TV
Narrator
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race (2014)
Movie
Self
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison (2014)
Movie
Narrator
Wildest Indochina (2014)
TV
James Craven
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (2014)
Movie
Saint Pierre / St Pierre
The Musketeers (2014)
TV
6.78
Narrator
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting (2014)
Movie
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
Movie
6
Himself
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013)
Movie
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
Movie
Self - Narrator
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence (2013)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Brady and Hindley: Possession (2013)
Movie
Lulu's Dad
Art Is... (2013)
Movie
Himself
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited (2013)
TV
Narrator / Self - Narrator
Wildest Islands (2012)
TV
7.33
Stanley Bone
Ripper Street (2012)
TV
6.5
Self - Narrator
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker (2012)
Movie
David
A Mother's Son (2012)
TV
1
Narrator
Wildest Arctic (2012)
TV
Narrator
Tiger Island (2012)
Movie
Narrator
Wildest Latin America (2012)
TV
Narrator
Wildest India (2012)
TV
Sir Rufus Isaacs
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry (2012)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Digging The Great Escape (2011)
Movie
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time (2011)
Movie
Narrator
The 9/11 Surfer (2011)
Movie
Narrator
The Day John Lennon Died (2010)
Movie
Torrence
Godard & Others (2010)
Movie
Mark North
Luther (2010)
TV
6.83
Richard Reeves
Collision (2009)
TV
3.5
Phil / Director
Moving On (2009)
TV
Vicar
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)
Movie
Clarence
Fables of Forgotten Things (2008)
Movie
Narrator / Self - Narrator
The Real Story (2008)
TV
Narrator
My Dad Was a Communist (2008)
Movie
Narrator / Self - Narrator
Tribal Wives (2008)
TV
Self - Narrator
How to Kill a Human Being (2008)
Movie
(archival audio)
Davros Connections (2007)
Movie
Self - Narrator
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest (2007)
TV
Nash McKinnon
True Dare Kiss (2007)
TV
Bill Mackinnon
Always Crashing in the Same Car (2007)
Movie
Self - Narrator
World of Compulsive Hoarders (2007)
Movie
Jeremy
Tripping Over (2006)
TV
Phillip Andrews
If I Had You (2006)
Movie
Narrator
Ghosts on the Underground (2005)
Movie
Self - Narrator / Narrator
I Shouldn't Be Alive (2005)
TV
Narrator
The Orangutan King (2005)
Movie
Paul
Gypo (2005)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Psycho (2005)
TV
Narrator
Electric Edwardians - The Films Of Mitchell And Kenyon (2005)
Movie
Narrator
Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain (2005)
Movie
Colonel MacNab
Kidnapped (2005)
Movie
Kidnapped (2005)
TV
Self
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK (2005)
Movie
Twisted Tales (2005)
TV
Narrator
Death of an Idealist (2005)
Movie
Dickie Erskine
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
TV
6.11
Gerry Henson
Lie with Me (2004)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Zero Hour (2004)
TV
Self -Narrator
Bible Mysteries (2004)
TV
Christopher Chambers
Sea of Souls (2004)
TV
D.C.I. James Larson
New Tricks (2004)
TV
Self
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' (2003)
Movie
Man
Listening (2003)
Movie
King Matholwch (voice)
Otherworld (2003)
Movie
Doctor Who
Doctor Who: Shada (2003)
Movie
Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Duty (2003)
Movie
7
Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Crowded Skies (2003)
TV
Andrew Morton
The Biographer (2002)
Movie
David Talbot
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Movie
1
DC David Ingram
Blood Strangers (2002)
Movie
Professer Patrick Vine
Sweet Revenge (2001)
TV
Dean
My Kingdom (2001)
Movie
ACC Tony Nicholson
Waking the Dead (2001)
TV
4.67
Self - Narrator
Real Crime (2001)
TV
Lt. Bush
Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
Movie
Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
Movie
Professer Patrick Vine
Sweet Revenge (2001)
Movie
Ben Carter
Hotel! (2001)
Movie
Jonathan Vishnevski
Fish (2000)
TV
Steve Witton
Nature Boy (2000)
TV
Self
Withnail and Us (1999)
Movie
Ben Turner
Forgotten (1999)
TV
Capt. Greville
The Dance of Shiva (1998)
Movie
William Bush
Hornblower (1998)
TV
Eugene Wrayburn
Our Mutual Friend (1998)
TV
Arthur Wright
FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
Movie
Rob
Downtime (1997)
Movie
David (voice)
Testament: The Bible in Animation (1996)
TV
Self - Commentary (voice)
Star Trek Story (1996)
Movie
The Doctor
Doctor Who (1996)
Movie
9
Potemkin
Catherine the Great (1996)
Movie
Self
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary (1996)
Movie
Cpl. Chris Ryan
The One That Got Away (1996)
Movie
6
Bassanio
The Merchant of Venice (1996)
Movie
Liam Phelan
The Hanging Gale (1995)
TV
Liam Phelan
The Hanging Gale (1995)
Movie
Girard / Jussac
The Three Musketeers (1993)
Movie
1
Joe Thompson
Nice Town (1992)
TV
Walter Golic
Alien³ (1992)
Movie
5.85
Narrator
Secret History (1991)
TV
Tony Dalton
Afraid of the Dark (1991)
Movie
Matthew Harris
Paper Mask (1990)
Movie
Colin
Drowning in the Shallow End (1990)
Movie
Father Lorenzo Rojas
The Monk (1990)
Movie
Daniel Pascoe
Dealers (1989)
Movie
Anton Skrebensky
The Rainbow (1989)
Movie
Joseph
Streets of Yesterday (1989)
Movie
Barry
Tree of Hands (1989)
Movie
Dr. Peter Lord
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
TV
6.24
Lieutenant Price
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Movie
3.5
Giovanni Cariani
Cariani and the Courtesans (1987)
Movie
...& I
Withnail & I (1987)
Movie
5.5
Percy Toplis
The Monocled Mutineer (1986)
TV
Jack
The Importance of Being Earnest (1986)
Movie
Mo Morris
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle (1984)
Movie
Narrator / Self - Narrator
Natural World (1983)
TV
6
Mo Morris
Give us a Break (1983)
TV
Graham Gaskin
Gaskin (1983)
Movie
Norman
Whistling Wally (1982)
Movie
Fish (1977)
TV
Play for Today (1970)
TV
Himself
Horizon (1964)
TV
5.5
Narrator
Iceland: Land of Fire and Ice
Movie
Self - Narrator
That'll Teach 'Em
TV
Self
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Movie
Narrator
Exposure
TV
Ratings
Average 5.79
Based on 1.05 Million movie and tv ratings over time
1964
1999
2007
2001
2023
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1959-11-14 (64 years old)
Birth PlaceKensington, United Kingdom
RelationshipsSusannah Harker (2006-01-01 - 2008-01-01)
ChildrenJoseph McGann, Jake McGann
SiblingsMark McGann, Stephen McGann, Joe McGann
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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