Paul McGann
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.
169 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 169
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Horizon
1964
Play for Today
1970
Holby City
1999
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Waking the Dead
2001
New Tricks
2004
Natural World
1983
Luther
2010
Ripper Street
2012
The Musketeers
2014
Moving On
2009
McDonald & Dodds
2020
Hornblower
1998
ScreenPlay
1986
Alien³
1992
Annika
2021
Bookish
2025
Fish
1977
Empire of the Sun
1987
The Three Musketeers
1993
The Bletchley Circle
2012
Sea of Souls
2004
Queen of the Damned
2002
Our Mutual Friend
1998
Twisted Tales
2005
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
Zero Hour
2004
Tripping Over
2006
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
Collision
2009
A Mother's Son
2012
Anne
2022
Nature Boy
2000
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
Withnail & I
1987
Doctor Who
1996
Bible Mysteries
2004
Sweet Revenge
2001
The Hanging Gale
1995
True Dare Kiss
2007
Kidnapped
2005
Nice Town
1992
The Monocled Mutineer
1986
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
Shark
2015
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009
Wildest Islands
2012
Forgotten
1999
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988
Paper Mask
1990
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
Fish
2000
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
Afraid of the Dark
1991
Listening
2003
Catherine the Great
1996
Hotel!
2001
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016
Wildest Latin America
2012
B&B
2017
The Big Night In
2020
Wildest Europe
2017
The Marbles
2025
The Undertaker
2023
Secrets of the Castle
2014
The Rainbow
1989
Wild Sri Lanka
2015
Kidnapped
2005
Give us a Break
1983
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
Hornblower: Duty
2003
Victorian Sensations
2019
The Monk
1990
Brakes
2017
Good Behaviour
2026
Doctor Who Am I
2022
My Kingdom
2001
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
2024
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
Blood Strangers
2002
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
The One That Got Away
1996
Wildest Indochina
2014
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
Psycho
2005
Otherworld
2003
Wildest Middle East
2014
Dealers
1989
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
Streets of Yesterday
1989
Tree of Hands
1989
The Day John Lennon Died
2010
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
Star Trek Story
1996
Gaskin
1983
Talking Doctor Who
2023
Doctor Who: Shada
2003
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007
Absence
2015
The Biographer
2002
The Hanging Gale
1995
Downtime
1997
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
If I Had You
2006
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
The Dance of Shiva
1998
Lie with Me
2004
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
Godard & Others
2010
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Davros Connections
2007
Picasso's Last Stand
2018
Perplexed Music
2017
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014
Nero's Sunken City
2017
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015
The Merchant of Venice
1996
Gypo
2005
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023
Withnail and Us
1999
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
Art Is...
2013
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008
The 9/11 Surfer
2011
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015
Digging The Great Escape
2011
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014
Tiger Island
2012
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007
Whistling Wally
1982
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
Death of an Idealist
2005
The Other Prince William
2015
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016
Ghosts on the Underground
2005
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015
France: The Wild Side
2014
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013
The Orangutan King
2005
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014
Swallow Your Dreams
2022
Doctor Who: The Time War
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My Dad Was a Communist
2008
Super Powered Owls
2015
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011