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