Acting credits
165
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Paul McGann
Acting
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Movies: 111Series: 55Crew 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 - 2026
Years active: 63
Average TMDB rating: 7
Wikidata: Q335863
Also known as
Paul John McGann
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.
as The Doctor
Triesverse: Cataclysm
2026 • Movie
as Richard
Good Behaviour
2026 • Movie
as Lord Byron (voice)
The Marbles
2025 • Movie
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025 • Movie
as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024 • Movie
as Jaggers
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023 • Movie
as Arthur
The Undertaker
2023 • Movie
as Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Talking Doctor Who
2023 • Movie
as Walsh
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023 • Movie
as Self
Doctor Who Am I
2022 • Movie
as James
Swallow Your Dreams
2022 • Movie
as Self
The Big Night In
2020 • Movie
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019 • Movie
as Self
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019 • Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019 • Movie
as Narrator
Picasso's Last Stand
2018 • Movie
as Himself
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018 • Movie
as Man
Perplexed Music
2017 • Movie
as Peter
Brakes
2017 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017 • Movie
as Narrator (English Voice)
Nero's Sunken City
2017 • Movie
as Josh
B&B
2017 • Movie
as Narrator (Voice)
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Paul McGann.
as Mr. Kind • 2 eps
Bookish
2025 • Series
as Malcolm Thornton MP • 4 eps
Anne
2022 • Series
as Jake Strathearn • 6 eps
Annika
2021 • Series
as Self - Narrator • 3 eps
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021 • Series
as Archie Addington • 1 eps
McDonald & Dodds
2020 • Series
as Self - Presenter • 1 eps
Victorian Sensations
2019 • Series
as Narrator • 5 eps
Wildest Europe
2017 • Series
as Narrator • 5 eps
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016 • Series
Commissioning Editor • 5 eps
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
2016 • Series
as Himself - Narrator • 3 eps
Shark
2015 • Series
as Paul McGann • 3 eps
Wild Sri Lanka
2015 • Series
as Narrator • 5 eps
Wildest Middle East
2014 • Series
as Narrator (Voice) • 5 eps
Secrets of the Castle
2014 • Series
as Narrator (voice) • 5 eps
Wildest Indochina
2014 • Series
as St Pierre • 1 eps
The Musketeers
2014 • Series
as Self • 11 eps
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013 • Series
as Narrator • 10 eps
Wildest Islands
2012 • Series
as Stanley Bone • 1 eps
Ripper Street
2012 • Series
as John Richards • 1 eps
The Bletchley Circle
2012 • Series
as David • 2 eps
A Mother's Son
2012 • Series
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 5 eps
Wildest Latin America
2012 • Series
as Mark North • 10 eps
Luther
2010 • Series
as Richard Reeves • 5 eps
Collision
2009 • Series
as Phil • 1 eps
Moving On
2009 • Series