Acting credits
157
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Paul McGann
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 110Series: 48Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 47654
IMDb ID: nm0001524
Known for: Acting
Born: November 14, 1959
Age: 66
Place of birth: Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1964 - 2025
Years active: 62
Average TMDB rating: 6.97
Wikidata: Q335863
Other jobs
Commissioning Editor (1)Director (1)
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Paul McGann.
The Marbles
as Lord Byron (voice)
2025 Movie
5.4
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025 Movie
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
as The Doctor
2024 Movie
7.2
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024 Movie
8.0
Churchill’s Forgotten War
as Narrator (voice)
2024 Movie
The Day of the Sun Dog
as Jaggers
2023 Movie
5.5
The Undertaker
as Arthur
2023 Movie
5.0
Talking Doctor Who
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2023 Movie
6.5
Mia and the Dragon Princess
as Walsh
2023 Movie
4.8
Doctor Who Am I
as Self
2022 Movie
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
as The Doctor
2022 Movie
10.0
Swallow Your Dreams
as James
2022 Movie
9.0
The Big Night In
as Self
2020 Movie
2.0
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019 Movie
7.8
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
as Self
2019 Movie
10.0
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
as Narrator (voice)
2019 Movie
Picasso's Last Stand
as Narrator
2018 Movie
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
as Himself
2018 Movie
5.6
Brakes
as Peter
2017 Movie
8.0
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
as Narrator (voice)
2017 Movie
5.0
Nero's Sunken City
as Narrator (English Voice)
2017 Movie
6.3
B&B
as Josh
2017 Movie
Perplexed Music
as Man
2017 Movie
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
as Narrator (Voice)
2016 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Paul McGann.
6.7
Bookish
as Mr. Kind • 2 eps
2025 Series
7.1
Anne
as Malcolm Thornton MP • 4 eps
2022 Series
7.2
Annika
as Jake Strathearn • 6 eps
2021 Series
3.9
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
as Self - Narrator • 3 eps
2021 Series
7.6
McDonald & Dodds
as Archie Addington • 1 eps
2020 Series
Victorian Sensations
as Self - Presenter • 1 eps
2019 Series
Wildest Europe
as Narrator • 5 eps
2017 Series
8.0
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
as Narrator • 5 eps
2016 Series
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
Commissioning Editor • 5 eps
2016 Series
8.2
Shark
as Himself - Narrator • 3 eps
2015 Series
7.8
Wild Sri Lanka
as Paul McGann • 3 eps
2015 Series
9.0
Wildest Middle East
as Narrator • 5 eps
2014 Series
9.4
Secrets of the Castle
as Narrator (Voice) • 5 eps
2014 Series
8.6
Wildest Indochina
as Narrator (voice) • 5 eps
2014 Series
7.0
The Musketeers
as St Pierre • 1 eps
2014 Series
6.4
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
as Self • 11 eps
2013 Series
8.1
Wildest Islands
as Narrator • 10 eps
2012 Series
7.4
Ripper Street
as Stanley Bone • 1 eps
2012 Series
7.6
The Bletchley Circle
as John Richards • 1 eps
2012 Series
6.8
A Mother's Son
as David • 2 eps
2012 Series
8.0
Wildest Latin America
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 5 eps
2012 Series
7.9
Luther
as Mark North • 10 eps
2010 Series
7.0
Collision
as Richard Reeves • 5 eps
2009 Series
7.1
Moving On
as Phil • 1 eps
2009 Series