Cast
Paul McGann
Acting
Cast
Paul McGann
Known for
Acting
Born
1959-11-14
From
Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Also known as Paul John McGann
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.
★6.4
MOVIE1992
Alien³
as Golic
★6.4
MOVIE1993
The Three Musketeers
as Girard / Jussac
★9.0
MOVIE2015
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
as Narrator (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1987
Empire of the Sun
as Lieutenant Price
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Queen of the Damned
as David Talbot
★7.2
MOVIE1987
Withnail & I
as ...& I
★10.0
MOVIE2005
The Orangutan King
as Narrator
MOVIE2026
Good Behaviour
as Richard
★5.2
MOVIE2009
Lesbian Vampire Killers
as Vicar
★8.2
MOVIE2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
★6.2
MOVIE1996
Doctor Who
as The Doctor
★7.2
MOVIE2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE2011
The 9/11 Surfer
as Narrator
★6.4
MOVIE1997
FairyTale: A True Story
as Arthur Wright
★7.0
MOVIE1997
Downtime
as Rob
★9.0
MOVIE2020
The Big Night In
as Self
MOVIE2025
The Marbles
as Lord Byron (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE2001
Hornblower: Retribution
as Lt. Bush
MOVIE2012
Tiger Island
as Narrator
★5.0
MOVIE2023
Talking Doctor Who
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
★1.2
MOVIE1996
Star Trek Story
as Self - Commentary (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE1996
Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
★4.8
MOVIE2022
Doctor Who Am I
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE2010
Godard & Others
as Torrence
MOVIE2005
Death of an Idealist
as Narrator
★8.0
MOVIE2015
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
★7.8
MOVIE2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2011
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
★7.2
MOVIE2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Lieutenant Bush
★8.0
MOVIE2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as The Doctor
★5.5
MOVIE2023
The Undertaker
as Arthur
MOVIE2026
Triesverse: Cataclysm
as The Doctor
★5.5
MOVIE1996
The Merchant of Venice
as Bassanio
★5.6
MOVIE1989
Dealers
as Daniel Pascoe
★7.4
MOVIE2001
Hornblower: Mutiny
as Lieutenant Bush
★5.6
MOVIE1991
Afraid of the Dark
as Tony
★7.8
MOVIE2003
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE2023
The Day of the Sun Dog
as Jaggers
★7.4
MOVIE2008
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
★7.5
MOVIE1989
Streets of Yesterday
as Joseph
MOVIE2008
The Ties That Bind Us
as Self - Narrator
★7.5
MOVIE2003
Listening
as Man
★8.0
MOVIE2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War
as Narrator (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE2003
Hornblower: Duty
as Lieutenant Bush
★6.0
MOVIE2001
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
as Self- Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
as Giovanni Cariani
★5.6
MOVIE1989
The Rainbow
as Anton Skrebensky
★5.7
MOVIE2004
Lie with Me
as Gerry Henson
★5.7
MOVIE1990
Paper Mask
as Matthew Harris
MOVIE2017
Perplexed Music
as Man
MOVIE2011
Digging The Great Escape
as narrator
★8.0
MOVIE1989
Tree of Hands
as Barry
MOVIE2015
The Other Prince William
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE2003
Otherworld
as King Matholwch (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE2012
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2018
Picasso's Last Stand
as Narrator
★4.0
MOVIE2008
Fables of Forgotten Things
as Clarence
MOVIE2015
Shark: Beneath the Surface
as self, narrator
MOVIE2014
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
as Durian
MOVIE2011
Gadaffi and the IRA
as Narrator
★9.0
MOVIE1998
The Dance of Shiva
as Captain Greville
★6.2
MOVIE1996
The One That Got Away
as Chris Ryan
★6.3
MOVIE2017
B&B
as Josh
★7.0
MOVIE2005
Ghosts on the Underground
as Narrator
★3.2
MOVIE1990
The Monk
as Father Lorenzo Rojas
★5.0
MOVIE2017
Nero's Sunken City
as Narrator (English Voice)
★9.0
MOVIE2002
The Biographer
as Andrew Morton
★7.3
MOVIE2003
Doctor Who: Shada
as The Doctor (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE2010
The Day John Lennon Died
as Narrator
★5.4
MOVIE1988
The Importance of Being Earnest
as John Worthing
MOVIE2016
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
as Narrator (Voice)
★8.0
MOVIE2017
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
as Narrator (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE2014
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
as Himself
★5.8
MOVIE2002
Blood Strangers
as DC David Ingram
MOVIE2015
Super Powered Owls
as Narrator
★6.4
MOVIE2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
as Sir Rufus Isaacs
★6.4
MOVIE1999
Withnail and Us
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2006
If I Had You
as Philip Andrews
★6.2
MOVIE2007
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
as Narrator
MOVIE1995
The Hanging Gale
as Liam Phelan
★6.5
MOVIE2013
Brady and Hindley: Possession
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2008
My Dad Was a Communist
as Narrator
★5.2
MOVIE2001
Hotel!
as Ben Carter
MOVIE2014
France: The Wild Side
as Narrator
★5.5
MOVIE2001
My Kingdom
as Dean
MOVIE2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
as Self
MOVIE2007
World of Compulsive Hoarders
★5.0
MOVIE1983
Gaskin
as Graham Gaskin
MOVIE2005
Kidnapped
as Colonel MacNab
★7.0
MOVIE2015
Absence
as Man
★10.0
MOVIE2019
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE2022
Swallow Your Dreams
as James
★7.6
MOVIE2019
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE2017
Brakes
as Peter
★6.4
MOVIE2023
Mia and the Dragon Princess
as Walsh
MOVIE2007
Davros Connections
as (archival audio)
MOVIE1982
Whistling Wally
as Norman
★7.0
MOVIE1990
Drowning in the Shallow End
as Colin
★10.0
MOVIE2015
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
as narrator
MOVIE2014
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
★6.7
MOVIE2007
Always Crashing in the Same Car
as Bill Mackinnon
★8.0
MOVIE2015
Churchill: When Britain Said No
as Narrator (voice)
★8.7
MOVIE2015
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
as Narrator
★7.5
MOVIE1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
as Self
MOVIE1984
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
as Mo Morris
★5.3
MOVIE2005
Gypo
as Paul
★10.0
MOVIE2005
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
MOVIE2014
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
as James Craven
MOVIE2013
Art Is...
as Lulu's Dad
★7.4
MOVIE2014
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
as Narrator (Voice)
★2.0
MOVIE2019
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
MOVIE2018
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
as Himself
★8.5
MOVIE2014
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
as Narrator
★7.3
MOVIE2013
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
as Himself - Narrator (voice)