Paul McGann

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
November 14, 1959 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Popular Genres
Drama Adventure TV Movie
Career Span
1982 – 2024

Paul McGann

1 win
68 nominations
104 credits

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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Personal Info

Born
Nov 14, 1959
From
Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Career
1982 – 2024

Award Recognition

1
Win
68
Nominations

Complete Filmography

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show as The Doctor
Churchill’s Forgotten War as Narrator (voice)

2023

The Undertaker as Arthur Award
Talking Doctor Who as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess as Walsh
The Day of the Sun Dog as Jaggers

2022

Doctor Who Am I as Self Award
Swallow Your Dreams as James

2019

Swans: Mystery of the Missing as Narrator (voice)
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On as Self
Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann

2018

Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land as Himself
Picasso's Last Stand as Narrator

2017

B&B as Josh
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence as Narrator (voice)
Brakes as Peter
Perplexed Music as Man
Nero's Sunken City as Narrator (English Voice)

2016

Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack as Narrator (Voice)

2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited) Award
Churchill: When Britain Said No as Narrator (voice)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire as Narrator
Super Powered Owls as Narrator
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden as Narrator (voice)
Absence as Man
The Other Prince William as Self - Narrator (voice)

2014

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison as Self
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story as Himself
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race as Narrator (Voice)
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road as James Craven
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting as Narrator

2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as Self Award
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor as The Doctor
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Brady and Hindley: Possession as Narrator (voice)
Art Is... as Lulu's Dad

2012

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker as Himself - Narrator (voice)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry as Sir Rufus Isaacs
Tiger Island as Narrator

2011

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Digging The Great Escape as narrator
The 9/11 Surfer as Narrator

2010

The Day John Lennon Died as Narrator
Godard & Others as Torrence

2009

Lesbian Vampire Killers as Vicar

2008

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us as Narrator Award
Fables of Forgotten Things as Clarence
My Dad Was a Communist as Narrator

2007

Always Crashing in the Same Car as Bill Mackinnon
Davros Connections as (archival audio)
World of Compulsive Hoarders

2006

If I Had You as Philip Andrews

2005

The Orangutan King as Narrator
Kidnapped as Colonel MacNab
Gypo as Paul
Death of an Idealist as Narrator
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
Ghosts on the Underground as Narrator

2004

Lie with Me as Gerry Henson

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty as Lieutenant Bush Award
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' as Self
Hornblower: Duty as Lieutenant Bush
Listening as Man
Doctor Who: Shada as The Doctor (voice)
Otherworld as King Matholwch (voice)

2002

Queen of the Damned as David Talbot Award
The Biographer as Andrew Morton
Blood Strangers as DC David Ingram

2001

Hornblower: Mutiny as Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Retribution as Lt. Bush
Hotel! as Ben Carter
My Kingdom as Dean

1999

Withnail and Us as Self

1998

The Dance of Shiva as Captain Greville

1997

FairyTale: A True Story as Arthur Wright Award
Downtime as Rob

1996

Doctor Who as The Doctor Award
Catherine the Great as Potemkin
The One That Got Away as Chris Ryan
Star Trek Story as Self - Commentary (voice)
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self
The Merchant of Venice as Bassanio

1995

The Hanging Gale as Liam Phelan

1993

The Three Musketeers as Girard / Jussac Award

1992

Alien³ as Golic Award

1991

Afraid of the Dark as Tony Award

1990

Paper Mask as Matthew Harris
The Monk as Father Lorenzo Rojas
Drowning in the Shallow End as Colin

1989

The Rainbow as Anton Skrebensky Award
Dealers as Daniel Pascoe
Tree of Hands as Barry
Streets of Yesterday as Joseph

1988

The Importance of Being Earnest as John Worthing

1987

Empire of the Sun as Lieutenant Price Award
Withnail & I as ...& I
Cariani and the Courtesans as Giovanni Cariani

1984

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle as Mo Morris

1983

Gaskin as Graham Gaskin

1982

Whistling Wally as Norman

Photos & Videos

Featured in Trailers

Alien³
Empire of the Sun
The Three Musketeers
Queen of the Damned
Doctor Who
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Lesbian Vampire Killers
FairyTale: A True Story
Withnail & I
The Undertaker

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