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.
Movies (110)
Good Behaviour
2026
The Marbles
2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023
The Undertaker
2023
Talking Doctor Who
2023
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
Doctor Who Am I
2022
Swallow Your Dreams
2022
The Big Night In
2020
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
Picasso's Last Stand
2018
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018
Perplexed Music
2017
Brakes
2017
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
Nero's Sunken City
2017
B&B
2017
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015
Absence
2015
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015
Super Powered Owls
2015
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
France: The Wild Side
2014
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013
Art Is...
2013
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
Digging The Great Escape
2011
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
The 9/11 Surfer
2011
The Day John Lennon Died
2010
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008
My Dad Was a Communist
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
Davros Connections
2007
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
If I Had You
2006
Ghosts on the Underground
2005
The Orangutan King
2005
Gypo
2005
Kidnapped
2005
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
Death of an Idealist
2005
Lie with Me
2004
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
Otherworld
2003
Doctor Who: Shada
2003
Hornblower: Duty
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
The Biographer
2002
Queen of the Damned
2002
Blood Strangers
2002
My Kingdom
2001
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
Hotel!
2001
Withnail and Us
1999
The Dance of Shiva
1998
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
Downtime
1997
Star Trek Story
1996
Doctor Who
1996
Catherine the Great
1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
The One That Got Away
1996
The Merchant of Venice
1996
The Hanging Gale
1995
The Three Musketeers
1993
Alien³
1992
Afraid of the Dark
1991
Paper Mask
1990
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
The Monk
1990
Dealers
1989
The Rainbow
1989
Streets of Yesterday
1989
Tree of Hands
1989
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988
Empire of the Sun
1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
Withnail & I
1987
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
Gaskin
1983
Whistling Wally
1982
TV Shows (49)
Bookish
2025
Anne
2022
Annika
2021
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
McDonald & Dodds
2020
Victorian Sensations
2019
Wildest Europe
2017
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016
Shark
2015
Wild Sri Lanka
2015
Wildest Middle East
2014
Secrets of the Castle
2014
Wildest Indochina
2014
The Musketeers
2014
The Musketeers
2014
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
Wildest Islands
2012
Ripper Street
2012
The Bletchley Circle
2012
A Mother's Son
2012
Wildest Latin America
2012
Luther
2010
Collision
2009
Moving On
2009
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007
True Dare Kiss
2007
Tripping Over
2006
Kidnapped
2005
Twisted Tales
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Zero Hour
2004
Bible Mysteries
2004
Sea of Souls
2004
New Tricks
2004
Waking the Dead
2001
Nature Boy
2000
Forgotten
1999
Holby City
1999
Hornblower
1998
Our Mutual Friend
1998
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
The Hanging Gale
1995
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
The Monocled Mutineer
1986
Natural World
1983
Give us a Break
1983
Fish
1977
Play for Today
1970
Horizon
1964