Paul McGann

Actor

Born: November 14, 1959 (age 66)
From: 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 (115)

Triesverse: Cataclysm (2026)
The Doctor
Good Behaviour (2026)
Richard
The Marbles (2025)
Lord Byron (voice)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War (2025)
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Churchill’s Forgotten War (2024)
Narrator (voice)
The Day of the Sun Dog (2023)
Jaggers
The Undertaker (2023)
Arthur
Talking Doctor Who (2023)
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess (2023)
Walsh
Doctor Who Am I (2022)
Self
Swallow Your Dreams (2022)
James
The Big Night In (2020)
Self
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years (2019)
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On (2019)
Self
Swans: Mystery of the Missing (2019)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Picasso's Last Stand (2018)
Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land (2018)
Himself
Perplexed Music (2017)
Man
Brakes (2017)
Peter
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)
Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City (2017)
Narrator (English Voice)
B&B (2017)
Josh
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack (2016)
Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)
The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire (2015)
Narrator
Absence (2015)
Man
The Other Prince William
The Other Prince William (2015)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden (2015)
Narrator (voice)
Churchill: When Britain Said No (2015)
Narrator (voice)