Paul McGann

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Paul McGann

Acting 66 November 14, 1959

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 an…

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Alien³

Alien³

6.4 1992 Movie
Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun

7.5 1987 Movie
Luther

Luther

7.9 2010 TV Show
Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

8.2 1989 TV Show
Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned

6.1 2002 Movie
The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

6.4 1993 Movie
Holby City

Holby City

5.8 1999 TV Show
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

8.2 2013 Movie
Withnail & I

Withnail & I

7.2 1987 Movie
Play for Today

Play for Today

6.6 1970 TV Show
Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple

7.8 2004 TV Show
Lesbian Vampire Killers

Lesbian Vampire Killers

5.2 2009 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Triesverse: Cataclysm

    Movie The Doctor

  2. 2026
    Good Behaviour

    Movie Richard

  3. 2025
    The Marbles

    Movie Lord Byron (voice)

  4. 2025
    Bookish

    TV show Mr. Kind

  5. 2025
    Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

    Movie The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

  6. 2024
    Doctor Who at the Proms

    Movie The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

  7. 2024
    Churchill’s Forgotten War

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  8. 2023
    The Day of the Sun Dog

    Movie Jaggers

  9. 2023
    The Undertaker

    Movie Arthur

  10. 2023
    Talking Doctor Who

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

  11. 2023
    Mia and the Dragon Princess

    Movie Walsh

  12. 2022
    Doctor Who Am I

    Movie Self

  13. 2022
    Swallow Your Dreams

    Movie James

  14. 2022
    Anne

    TV show Malcolm Thornton MP

  15. 2021
    Annika

    TV show Jake Strathearn

  16. 2021
    Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

    TV show Self - Narrator

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  1. 2020
    The Big Night In

    Movie Self

  2. 2020
    McDonald & Dodds

    TV show Archie Addington

  3. 2019
    The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

    Movie

  4. 2019
    Victorian Sensations

    TV show Self - Presenter

  5. 2019
    The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On

    Movie Self

  6. 2019
    Swans: Mystery of the Missing

    Movie Self - Narrator (voice)

  7. 2018
    Picasso's Last Stand

    Movie Narrator

  8. 2018
    Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land

    Movie Himself

  9. 2017
    Perplexed Music

    Movie Man

  10. 2017
    Brakes

    Movie Peter

  11. 2017
    Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  12. 2017
    Nero's Sunken City

    Movie Narrator (English Voice)

  13. 2017
    B&B

    Movie Josh

  14. 2017
    Wildest Europe

    TV show Narrator

  15. 2016
    Wildest Islands of Indonesia

    TV show Narrator

  16. 2016
    China: Between Clouds and Dreams

    TV show Commissioning Editor

  17. 2016
    Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack

    Movie Narrator (Voice)

  18. 2015
    Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

    Movie The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

  19. 2015
    China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

    Movie Narrator

  20. 2015
    Absence

    Movie Man

  21. 2015
    The Other Prince William

    Movie Self - Narrator (voice)

  22. 2015
    Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  23. 2015
    Churchill: When Britain Said No

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  24. 2015
    Shark: Beneath the Surface

    Movie self, narrator