Paul McGann
Acting
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.
Filmography
TheatersTriesverse: Cataclysm
2026 · Movie
Good Behaviour
2026 · Movie
The Marbles
2025 · Movie
Bookish
2025 · Series
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025 · Movie
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024 · Movie
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024 · Movie
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023 · Movie
The Undertaker
2023 · Movie
Talking Doctor Who
2023 · Movie
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023 · Movie
Doctor Who Am I
2022 · Movie
Swallow Your Dreams
2022 · Movie
Anne
2022 · Series
Annika
2021 · Series
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021 · Series
The Big Night In
2020 · Movie
McDonald & Dodds
2020 · Series
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019 · Movie
Victorian Sensations
2019 · Series
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019 · Movie
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019 · Movie
Picasso's Last Stand
2018 · Movie
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018 · Movie
Perplexed Music
2017 · Movie
Brakes
2017 · Movie
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017 · Movie
Nero's Sunken City
2017 · Movie
B&B
2017 · Movie
Wildest Europe
2017 · Series
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016 · Series
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
2016 · Series
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015 · Movie
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015 · Movie
Absence
2015 · Movie
The Other Prince William
2015 · Movie
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015 · Movie
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015 · Movie
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015 · Movie
Shark
2015 · Series
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015 · Movie
Super Powered Owls
2015 · Movie
Wild Sri Lanka
2015 · Series
Wildest Middle East
2014 · Series
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014 · Movie
Secrets of the Castle
2014 · Series
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014 · Movie
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014 · Movie
Wildest Indochina
2014 · Series
France: The Wild Side
2014 · Movie
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014 · Movie
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014 · Movie
The Musketeers
2014 · Series
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013 · Movie
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013 · Movie
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013 · Movie
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013 · Movie
Art Is...
2013 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013 · Series
Wildest Islands
2012 · Series
Ripper Street
2012 · Series
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012 · Movie
The Bletchley Circle
2012 · Series
A Mother's Son
2012 · Series
Tiger Island
2012 · Movie
Wildest Latin America
2012 · Series
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012 · Movie
Digging The Great Escape
2011 · Movie
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011 · Movie
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011 · Movie
The 9/11 Surfer
2011 · Movie
The Day John Lennon Died
2010 · Movie
Godard & Others
2010 · Movie
Luther
2010 · Series
Collision
2009 · Series
Moving On
2009 · Series
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008 · Movie
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008 · Movie
My Dad Was a Communist
2008 · Movie
The True Story
2008 · Series
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Movie
Davros Connections
2007 · Movie
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007 · Series
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007 · Movie
True Dare Kiss
2007 · Series
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007 · Movie
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007 · Movie
Tripping Over
2006 · Series
If I Had You
2006 · Movie
Ghosts on the Underground
2005 · Movie
The Orangutan King
2005 · Movie
Gypo
2005 · Movie
Psycho
2005 · Series
Kidnapped
2005 · Series
Kidnapped
2005 · Movie
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005 · Movie
Twisted Tales
2005 · Series
Death of an Idealist
2005 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Lie with Me
2004 · Series
Zero Hour
2004 · Series
Bible Mysteries
2004 · Series
Sea of Souls
2004 · Series
New Tricks
2004 · Series
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003 · Movie
Listening
2003 · Movie
Otherworld
2003 · Movie
Doctor Who: Shada
2003 · Movie
Hornblower: Duty
2003 · Movie
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003 · Movie
The Biographer
2002 · Movie
Queen of the Damned
2002 · Movie
Blood Strangers
2002 · Series
Sweet Revenge
2001 · Series
My Kingdom
2001 · Movie
Waking the Dead
2001 · Series
Real Crime
2001 · Series
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001 · Movie
Hornblower: Retribution
2001 · Movie
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001 · Movie
Hotel!
2001 · Movie
Fish
2000 · Series
Nature Boy
2000 · Series
Withnail and Us
1999 · Movie
Forgotten
1999 · Series
Holby City
1999 · Series
The Dance of Shiva
1998 · Movie
Hornblower
1998 · Series
Our Mutual Friend
1998 · Series
FairyTale: A True Story
1997 · Movie
Downtime
1997 · Movie
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996 · Series
Star Trek Story
1996 · Movie
Doctor Who
1996 · Movie
Catherine the Great
1996 · Movie
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996 · Movie
The One That Got Away
1996 · Movie
The Merchant of Venice
1996 · Movie
The Hanging Gale
1995 · Series
The Hanging Gale
1995 · Movie
The Three Musketeers
1993 · Movie
Nice Town
1992 · Series
Alien³
1992 · Movie
Afraid of the Dark
1991 · Movie
Paper Mask
1990 · Movie
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990 · Movie
The Monk
1990 · Movie
Dealers
1989 · Movie
The Rainbow
1989 · Movie
Streets of Yesterday
1989 · Movie
Tree of Hands
1989 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Series
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988 · Movie
Empire of the Sun
1987 · Movie
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987 · Movie
Withnail & I
1987 · Movie
Sunday Premiere
1986 · Series
The Monocled Mutineer
1986 · Series
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984 · Movie
Natural World
1983 · Series
Give us a Break
1983 · Series
Gaskin
1983 · Movie
Whistling Wally
1982 · Movie
Fish
1977 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Horizon
1964 · Series