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