Nov 14, 1959 - 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.
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| Movie | 2019 | The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years | ||
| Movie | 2017 | Nero's Sunken City | Narrator (English Voice) | |
| Movie | 1996 | The One That Got Away | Chris Ryan | |
| Movie | 2005 | Gypo | Paul | |
| Movie | 1992 | Alien³ | Golic | |
| Movie | 2019 | Swans: Mystery of the Missing | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1987 | Withnail & I | ...& I | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Rainbow | Anton Skrebensky | |
| Movie | 2001 | Hornblower: Mutiny | Lieutenant Bush | |
| Movie | 1996 | Doctor Who | The Doctor | |
| Movie | 2012 | Tiger Island | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2015 | Super Powered Owls | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Orangutan King | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2014 | Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2003 | Hornblower: Loyalty | Lieutenant Bush | |
| Movie | 2003 | Hornblower: Duty | Lieutenant Bush | |
| Movie | 2023 | Mia and the Dragon Princess | Walsh | |
| Movie | 2009 | Lesbian Vampire Killers | Vicar | |
| Movie | 2001 | My Kingdom | Dean | |
| Movie | 2010 | Godard & Others | Torrence | |
| Movie | 2012 | Britain's Greatest Codebreaker | Himself - Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2014 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison | Self | |
| Movie | 1996 | Catherine the Great | Potemkin | |
| Movie | 1989 | Dealers | Daniel Pascoe | |
| Movie | 1990 | Paper Mask | Matthew Harris | |
| Movie | 2001 | Hornblower: Retribution | Lt. Bush | |
| Movie | 1997 | Downtime | Rob | |
| Movie | 2014 | A Little Place Off the Edgware Road | James Craven | |
| Movie | 2022 | Swallow Your Dreams | James | |
| Movie | 2003 | Otherworld | King Matholwch (voice) | |
| Movie | 1999 | Withnail and Us | Self | |
| Movie | 1990 | Drowning in the Shallow End | Colin | |
| Movie | 2023 | The Day of the Sun Dog | Jaggers | |
| Movie | 2006 | If I Had You | Philip Andrews | |
| Movie | 2013 | Brady and Hindley: Possession | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2001 | Hotel! | Ben Carter | |
| Movie | 1988 | The Importance of Being Earnest | John Worthing | |
| Movie | 1996 | Star Trek Story | Self - Commentary (voice) | |
| Movie | 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Merchant of Venice | Bassanio | |
| Movie | 2023 | The Undertaker | Arthur | |
| Movie | 2023 | Talking Doctor Who | Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2022 | Doctor Who Am I | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | My Dad Was a Communist | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2019 | Myth Makers 142: Paul McGann | ||
| Movie | 2004 | Lie with Me | Gerry Henson | |
| Movie | 1987 | Cariani and the Courtesans | Giovanni Cariani | |
| Movie | 2005 | Death of an Idealist | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1987 | Empire of the Sun | Lieutenant Price | |
| Movie | 1991 | Afraid of the Dark | Tony | |
| Movie | 2013 | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2005 | Daphne Ashbrook in the UK | ||
| Movie | 2014 | Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race | Narrator (Voice) | |
| Movie | 1983 | Gaskin | Graham Gaskin | |
| Movie | 2002 | Queen of the Damned | David Talbot | |
| Movie | 1984 | Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle | Mo Morris | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Three Musketeers | Girard / Jussac | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Dance of Shiva | Captain Greville | |
| Movie | 1995 | The Hanging Gale | Liam Phelan | |
| Movie | 2017 | Brakes | Peter | |
| Movie | 2013 | Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | The Doctor | |
| Movie | 2014 | The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story | Himself | |
| Movie | 2007 | Always Crashing in the Same Car | Bill Mackinnon | |
| Movie | 2015 | Absence | Man | |
| Movie | 2011 | The 9/11 Surfer | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2008 | Fables of Forgotten Things | Clarence | |
| Movie | 2002 | Blood Strangers | DC David Ingram | |
| Movie | 2016 | Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack | Narrator (Voice) | |
| Movie | 2017 | B&B | Josh | |
| Movie | 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | FairyTale: A True Story | Arthur Wright | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Monk | Father Lorenzo Rojas | |
| Movie | 2011 | Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time | ||
| Movie | 2015 | The Other Prince William | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2015 | Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2018 | Picasso's Last Stand | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2013 | JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence | Himself - Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2015 | China - Treasures of the Jade Empire | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2007 | World of Compulsive Hoarders | ||
| Movie | 2013 | Art Is... | Lulu's Dad | |
| Movie | 2018 | Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land | Himself | |
| Movie | 2015 | Churchill: When Britain Said No | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2007 | Davros Connections | (archival audio) | |
| Movie | 2012 | SOS: The Titanic Inquiry | Sir Rufus Isaacs | |
| Movie | 2005 | Ghosts on the Underground | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2002 | The Biographer | Andrew Morton | |
| Movie | 2003 | Doctor Who: Shada | The Doctor (voice) | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Day John Lennon Died | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1989 | Streets of Yesterday | Joseph | |
| Movie | 1982 | Whistling Wally | Norman | |
| Movie | 2003 | Listening | Man | |
| Movie | 2019 | The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On | Self | |
| Movie | 1989 | Tree of Hands | Barry | |
| Movie | 2003 | Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2017 | Perplexed Music | Man | |
| Movie | 2005 | Kidnapped | Colonel MacNab | |
| Movie | 2011 | Digging The Great Escape | narrator | |
| Movie | 2024 | Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show | The Doctor | |
| Movie | 2024 | Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2008 | Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2015 | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song | The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2024 | Churchill’s Forgotten War | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2008 | The Ties That Bind Us | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2025 | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War | The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2015 | Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace | narrator | |
| Movie | 2014 | The Minister of Chance: Prologue | Durian | |
| TV Show | 2010 | Luther | Mark North | 10 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Tripping Over | Jeremy | 6 |
| TV Show | 2007 | True Dare Kiss | Nash McKinnon | 6 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Collision | Richard Reeves | 5 |
| TV Show | 1977 | Fish | 13 | |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Norman | 1 |
| TV Show | 1986 | The Monocled Mutineer | Percy Toplis | 4 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Our Mutual Friend | Eugene Wrayburn | 4 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Sea of Souls | Christopher Chambers | 1 |
| TV Show | 2000 | Fish | Jonathan Vishnevski | 6 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Twisted Tales | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2014 | Wildest Middle East | Narrator | 5 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Annika | Jake Strathearn | 6 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Wildest Latin America | Self - Narrator (voice) | 5 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Forgotten | Ben Turner | 3 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Secrets of the Castle | Narrator (Voice) | 5 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Wildest Islands | Narrator | 10 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Natural World | Narrator | 5 |
| TV Show | 2012 | A Mother's Son | David | 2 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Sweet Revenge | Patrick Vine | 2 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Moving On | Phil | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Hornblower | William Bush | 4 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World | Self - Narrator | 3 |
| TV Show | 2004 | New Tricks | D.C.I. James Larson | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Shark | Himself - Narrator | 3 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Bible Mysteries | Himself-Narrator | 9 |
| TV Show | 2014 | The Musketeers | St Pierre | 1 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Waking the Dead | ACC Tony Nicholson | 2 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Anne | Malcolm Thornton MP | 4 |
| TV Show | 2000 | Nature Boy | Steve Witton | 4 |
| TV Show | 2014 | The Musketeers | Saint Pierre | 1 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Ripper Street | Stanley Bone | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Wild Sri Lanka | Paul McGann | 3 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Kidnapped | 3 | |
| TV Show | 2007 | The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 3 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Nice Town | Joe Thompson | 3 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Dickie Erskine | 1 |
| TV Show | 1964 | Horizon | Himself | 1 |
| TV Show | 2020 | McDonald & Dodds | Archie Addington | 1 |
| TV Show | 2016 | Wildest Islands of Indonesia | Narrator | 5 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Victorian Sensations | Self - Presenter | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Psycho | Narrator | 4 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Wildest Europe | Narrator | 5 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Give us a Break | Mo Morris | 8 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | Self | 11 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Wildest Indochina | Narrator (voice) | 5 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | David (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1995 | The Hanging Gale | Liam Phelan | 4 |
| TV Show | 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Dr. Peter Lord | 1 |
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| TV Show | 2009 | Moving On | Director | Directing |
| TV Show | 2016 | China: Between Clouds and Dreams | Commissioning Editor | Crew |
