Paul McGann

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Alien³1992
Empire of the Sun1987
Queen of the Damned2002
The Three Musketeers1993

About Paul McGann

Known for: Acting
Born: November 14, 1959 (age 66)
Birthplace: 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.

Also credited as

Paul John McGann

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Filmography

Triesverse: Cataclysm2026as The Doctor

Good Behaviour2026as Richard
The Marbles2025as Lord Byron (voice)
Doctor Who at the Proms2024as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Churchill’s Forgotten War2024as Narrator (voice)
The Day of the Sun Dog2023as Jaggers
The Undertaker2023as Arthur
Talking Doctor Who2023as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Mia and the Dragon Princess2023as Walsh
Doctor Who Am I2022as Self
Swallow Your Dreams2022as James
The Big Night In2020as Self
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On2019as Self
Swans: Mystery of the Missing2019as Self - Narrator (voice)
Picasso's Last Stand2018as Narrator
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land2018as Himself
Perplexed Music2017as Man
Brakes2017as Peter
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence2017as Narrator (voice)
Nero's Sunken City2017as Narrator (English Voice)
B&B2017as Josh
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack2016as Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song2015as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire2015as Narrator
Absence2015as Man
The Other Prince William2015as Self - Narrator (voice)
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden2015as Narrator (voice)
Churchill: When Britain Said No2015as Narrator (voice)
Shark: Beneath the Surface2015as self, narrator
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace2015as narrator
Super Powered Owls2015as Narrator
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story2014as Himself
The Minister of Chance: Prologue2014as Durian
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race2014as Narrator (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison2014as Self
France: The Wild Side2014as Narrator
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius2014
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road2014as James Craven
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting2014as Narrator
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor2013as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot2013as Self
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor2013as The Doctor
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence2013as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Brady and Hindley: Possession2013as Narrator (voice)
Art Is...2013as Lulu's Dad
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker2012as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Tiger Island2012as Narrator
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry2012as Sir Rufus Isaacs
Digging The Great Escape2011as narrator
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time2011
Gadaffi and the IRA2011as Narrator
The 9/11 Surfer2011as Narrator
The Day John Lennon Died2010as Narrator
Godard & Others2010as Torrence
Lesbian Vampire Killers2009as Vicar
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor2008as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Fables of Forgotten Things2008as Clarence
My Dad Was a Communist2008as Narrator
The Ties That Bind Us2008as Self - Narrator
Davros Connections2007as (archival audio)
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover2007as Narrator
Always Crashing in the Same Car2007as Bill Mackinnon
World of Compulsive Hoarders2007
If I Had You2006as Philip Andrews
Ghosts on the Underground2005as Narrator
The Orangutan King2005as Narrator
Gypo2005as Paul
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK2005
Death of an Idealist2005as Narrator
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'2003as Self
Listening2003as Man
Otherworld2003as King Matholwch (voice)
Doctor Who: Shada2003as The Doctor (voice)
Hornblower: Duty2003as Lieutenant Bush
Hornblower: Loyalty2003as Lieutenant Bush
The Biographer2002as Andrew Morton
Queen of the Damned2002as David Talbot
My Kingdom2001as Dean
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story2001as Self- Narrator
Hornblower: Retribution2001as Lt. Bush
Hornblower: Mutiny2001as Lieutenant Bush
Hotel!2001as Ben Carter
Withnail and Us1999as Self
The Dance of Shiva1998as Captain Greville
FairyTale: A True Story1997as Arthur Wright
Downtime1997as Rob
Star Trek Story1996as Self - Commentary (voice)
Doctor Who1996as The Doctor
Catherine the Great1996as Potemkin
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary1996as Self
The One That Got Away1996as Chris Ryan
The Merchant of Venice1996as Bassanio
The Hanging Gale1995as Liam Phelan
The Three Musketeers1993as Girard / Jussac
Alien³1992as Golic
Afraid of the Dark1992as Tony
The Making of 'Alien³'1992as Self
Paper Mask1990as Matthew Harris
Drowning in the Shallow End1990as Colin
The Monk1990as Father Lorenzo Rojas
Dealers1989as Daniel Pascoe
The Rainbow1989as Anton Skrebensky
Streets of Yesterday1989as Joseph
Tree of Hands1989as Barry
The Importance of Being Earnest1988as John Worthing
Empire of the Sun1987as Lieutenant Price
Cariani and the Courtesans1987as Giovanni Cariani
Withnail & I1987as ...& I
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle1984as Mo Morris
Gaskin1983as Graham Gaskin
Whistling Wally1982as Norman

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