Paul McGann
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.
As actor 172
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Play for Today
1970
Horizon
1964
Holby City
1999
Natural World
1983
Screen Two
1985
Luther
2010
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Waking the Dead
2001
New Tricks
2004
Ripper Street
2012
The Musketeers
2014
Real Crime
2001
ScreenPlay
1986
Bookish
2025
Hornblower
1998
Alien³
1992
Moving On
2009
McDonald & Dodds
2020
Annika
2021
Empire of the Sun
1987
The Three Musketeers
1993
Zero Hour
2004
The Bletchley Circle
2012
Queen of the Damned
2002
Sea of Souls
2004
Withnail & I
1987
Our Mutual Friend
1998
Fish
1977
Wildest Islands
2012
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
Sunday Premiere
1986
Twisted Tales
2005
Doctor Who
1996
Anne
2022
Collision
2009
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
Bible Mysteries
2004
The True Story
2008
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
Good Behaviour
2026
Blood Strangers
2002
Wildest Europe
2017
Tripping Over
2006
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009
Tiger Island
2012
The Marbles
2025
Digging The Great Escape
2011
Nice Town
1992
A Mother's Son
2012
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
Psycho
2005
Shark
2015
Downtime
1997
Dealers
1989
The Monocled Mutineer
1986
The Hanging Gale
1995
Give us a Break
1983
The Orangutan King
2005
Doctor Who Am I
2022
True Dare Kiss
2007
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
Victorian Sensations
2019
Listening
2003
Nature Boy
2000
The Undertaker
2023
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
Wildest Latin America
2012
Lie with Me
2004
Triesverse: Cataclysm
2026
Catherine the Great
1996
Godard & Others
2010
Wildest Indochina
2014
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
Paper Mask
1990
The Big Night In
2020
Otherworld
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
Star Trek Story
1996
Forgotten
1999
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
The Rainbow
1989
Sweet Revenge
2001
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001
My Kingdom
2001
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
Wild Sri Lanka
2015
Fish
2000
The Biographer
2002
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
Wildest Middle East
2014
Secrets of the Castle
2014
Ripley by Job Willins
2015
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
The 9/11 Surfer
2011
Perplexed Music
2017
Hornblower: Duty
2003
The Merchant of Venice
1996
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
Afraid of the Dark
1991
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015
Talking Doctor Who
2023
B&B
2017
Kidnapped
2005
The One That Got Away
1996
Doctor Who: Shada
2003
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007
Streets of Yesterday
1989
Super Powered Owls
2015
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
The Other Prince William
2015
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014
Tree of Hands
1989
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007
The Monk
1990
Davros Connections
2007
Death of an Idealist
2005
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
Ghosts on the Underground
2005
Withnail and Us
1999
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014
Nero's Sunken City
2017
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
Gaskin
1983
France: The Wild Side
2014
Picasso's Last Stand
2018
Brakes
2017
If I Had You
2006
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016
Hotel!
2001
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
The Hanging Gale
1995
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
Whistling Wally
1982
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
The Dance of Shiva
1998
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015
The Day John Lennon Died
2010
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
Gypo
2005
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
My Dad Was a Communist
2008
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
Absence
2015
Swallow Your Dreams
2022
Art Is...
2013
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015
