Paul McGann
Known for: Acting
Born: November 14, 1959
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
112 movies · 60 TV shows, newest first
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Triesverse: Cataclysm
2026
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Good Behaviour
2026
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The Marbles
2025
6.4
Bookish
2025
5.1
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
7.2
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
8.0
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024
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The Day of the Sun Dog
2023
5.5
The Undertaker
2023
5.0
Talking Doctor Who
2023
6.3
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
4.8
Doctor Who Am I
2022
10.0
Swallow Your Dreams
2022
7.1
Anne
2022
7.0
Annika
2021
3.9
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
9.0
The Big Night In
2020
7.6
McDonald & Dodds
2020
2.0
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
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Victorian Sensations
2019
7.6
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
10.0
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
NR
Picasso's Last Stand
2018
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Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018
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Perplexed Music
2017
5.7
Brakes
2017
8.0
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
5.0
Nero's Sunken City
2017
6.3
B&B
2017
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Wildest Europe
2017
8.0
Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016
NR
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
2016
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Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016
8.0
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
8.7
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015
7.0
Absence
2015NR
The Other Prince William
2015
9.0
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
8.0
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015
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Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015
8.2
Shark
2015
10.0
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015
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Super Powered Owls
2015
7.8
Wild Sri Lanka
2015
8.5
Wildest Middle East
2014
5.9
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014
9.4
Secrets of the Castle
2014
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The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014
7.4
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
NR
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
8.6
Wildest Indochina
2014
NR
France: The Wild Side
2014
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Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
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A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014
7.1
The Musketeers
2014
8.5
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014
7.8
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
8.2
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
8.0
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
7.3
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
6.5
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013
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Art Is...
2013
6.4
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
8.1
Wildest Islands
2012
7.4
Ripper Street
2012
5.9
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
7.6
The Bletchley Circle
2012
6.7
A Mother's Son
2012NR
Tiger Island
2012
8.0
Wildest Latin America
2012
6.4
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
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Digging The Great Escape
2011
8.0
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011NR
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011
6.0
The 9/11 Surfer
2011
8.0
The Day John Lennon Died
20105.2
Godard & Others
2010
7.9
Luther
2010
7.0
Collision
2009
7.3
Moving On
2009
5.2
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009
7.4
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
4.0
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008
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My Dad Was a Communist
2008
NR
The True Story
2008
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The Ties That Bind Us
2008
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Davros Connections
2007
7.0
The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007
6.2
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007
7.0
True Dare Kiss
2007
6.7
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007
6.0
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
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Tripping Over
2006
7.0
If I Had You
2006
7.0
Ghosts on the Underground
2005
10.0
The Orangutan King
2005
5.3
Gypo
2005NR
Psycho
2005
6.8
Kidnapped
2005
10.0
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
7.7
Twisted Tales
2005
NR
Death of an Idealist
2005
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
NR
Lie with Me
2004
7.4
Zero Hour
2004
7.5
Bible Mysteries
2004
8.0
Sea of Souls
2004
7.3
New Tricks
2004
7.8
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
20037.5
Listening
2003
5.7
Otherworld
2003
7.3
Doctor Who: Shada
2003
7.3
Hornblower: Duty
2003
7.3
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
9.0
The Biographer
2002
6.1
Queen of the Damned
2002
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Blood Strangers
20028.0
Sweet Revenge
2001
5.5
My Kingdom
2001
7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
10.0
Real Crime
2001
6.0
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001
7.3
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
7.4
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
5.2
Hotel!
2001NR
Fish
2000
7.3
Nature Boy
2000
6.4
Withnail and Us
1999
7.6
Forgotten
1999
5.8
Holby City
1999
9.0
The Dance of Shiva
1998
7.8
Hornblower
1998
7.8
Our Mutual Friend
1998
6.4
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
7.0
Downtime
1997
7.0
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
1.2
Star Trek Story
1996
6.2
Doctor Who
1996
5.6
Catherine the Great
1996
7.5
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
6.2
The One That Got Away
1996
5.5
The Merchant of Venice
1996
5.8
The Hanging Gale
1995
NR
The Hanging Gale
1995
6.4
The Three Musketeers
19936.7
Nice Town
1992
6.4
Alien³
1992
5.7
Afraid of the Dark
1991
5.6
Paper Mask
1990
7.0
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
3.2
The Monk
1990
5.6
Dealers
1989
5.7
The Rainbow
1989
7.5
Streets of Yesterday
1989
8.0
Tree of Hands
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
5.4
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988
7.5
Empire of the Sun
1987
7.0
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
7.2
Withnail & I
1987
7.7
The Monocled Mutineer
19867.0
Sunday Premiere
1986
6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
7.1
Screen Two
1985
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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
7.4
Natural World
1983
7.3
Give us a Break
1983
5.0
Gaskin
1983
NR
Whistling Wally
1982
6.6
Fish
1977
6.6
Play for Today
1970
7.5
Horizon
1964