
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