1959-11-14 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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Good Behaviour | Richard | 2026-03-28 |
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Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War | The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2025-05-31 |
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The Marbles | Lord Byron (voice) | 2025-11-07 |
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Churchill’s Forgotten War | Narrator (voice) | 2024-05-04 |
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Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | 2024-12-24 |
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The Day of the Sun Dog | Jaggers | 2023-11-26 |
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Talking Doctor Who | Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | 2023-11-01 |
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The Undertaker | Arthur | 2023-11-03 |
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Mia and the Dragon Princess | Walsh | 2023-04-21 |
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Doctor Who Am I | Self | 2022-10-27 |
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Swallow Your Dreams | James | 2022-09-12 |
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The Big Night In | Self | 2020-04-23 |
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Swans: Mystery of the Missing | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2019-03-01 |
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The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years | 2019-09-02 | |
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The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On | Self | 2019-04-24 |
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Picasso's Last Stand | Narrator | 2018-03-24 |
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Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land | Himself | 2018-01-01 |
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Perplexed Music | Man | 2017-12-10 |
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B&B | Josh | 2017-04-13 |
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Neros Stadt der Lüste | Narrator (English Voice) | 2017-04-16 |
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Brakes | Peter | 2017-11-24 |
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Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence | Narrator (voice) | 2017-09-24 |
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Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack | Narrator (Voice) | 2016-09-05 |
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Super Powered Owls | Narrator | 2015-03-03 |
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Churchill: When Britain Said No | Narrator (voice) | 2015-06-02 |
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Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace | narrator | 2015-05-01 |
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The Other Prince William | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-27 |
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Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song | The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited) | 2015-12-25 |
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Absence | Man | 2015-10-16 |
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China - Treasures of the Jade Empire | Narrator | 2015-10-18 |
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Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden | Narrator (voice) | 2015-07-12 |
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Shark: Beneath the Surface | self, narrator | 2015-05-21 |
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Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius | 2014-04-01 | |
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Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting | Narrator | 2014-01-05 |
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France: The Wild Side | Narrator | 2014-04-25 |
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The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story | Himself | 2014-11-30 |
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The Minister of Chance: Prologue | Durian | 2014-10-17 |
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison | Self | 2014-08-01 |
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A Little Place Off the Edgware Road | James Craven | 2014-03-03 |
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Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race | Narrator (Voice) | 2014-10-13 |
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | 2013-11-23 |
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Art Is... | Lulu's Dad | 2013-04-01 |
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JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-13 |
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Brady and Hindley: Possession | Narrator (voice) | 2013-07-11 |
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Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | The Doctor | 2013-11-14 |
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | 2013-11-23 |
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Britain's Greatest Codebreaker | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2012-10-17 |
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Tiger Island | Narrator | 2012-07-26 |
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SOS: The Titanic Inquiry | Sir Rufus Isaacs | 2012-04-16 |
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Digging The Great Escape | narrator | 2011-11-28 |
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Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time | 2011-10-31 | |
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Gadaffi and the IRA | Narrator | 2011-09-26 |
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9/11: A legcsodásabb megmenekülés | Narrator | 2011-09-10 |
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Godard & Others | Torrence | 2010-08-01 |
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The Day John Lennon Died | Narrator | 2010-12-06 |
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Lesbian Vampire Killers | Vicar | 2009-03-16 |
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Fables of Forgotten Things | Clarence | 2008-09-01 |
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My Dad Was a Communist | Narrator | 2008-08-23 |
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The Ties That Bind Us | Self - Narrator | 2008-03-03 |
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | The Doctor (8) (archive footage) | 2008-12-25 |
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Davros Connections | (archival audio) | 2007-11-26 |
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World of Compulsive Hoarders | 2007-05-02 | |
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Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover | Narrator | 2007-09-07 |
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Always Crashing in the Same Car | Bill Mackinnon | 2007-06-03 |
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If I Had You | Philip Andrews | 2006-05-01 |
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Kidnapped | Colonel MacNab | 2005-02-27 |
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Gypo | Paul | 2005-08-24 |
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The Orangutan King | Narrator | 2005-10-19 |
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Ghosts on the Underground | Narrator | 2005-10-31 |
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Daphne Ashbrook in the UK | 2005-02-01 | |
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Death of an Idealist | Narrator | 2005-01-01 |
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Lie with Me | Gerry Henson | 2004-11-15 |
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Hornblower: Duty | Lieutenant Bush | 2003-01-06 |
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Doctor Who: Shada | The Doctor (voice) | 2003-05-02 |
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Hornblower: Loyalty | Lieutenant Bush | 2003-01-05 |
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Y Mabinogi | King Matholwch (voice) | 2003-06-26 |
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Listening | Man | 2003-10-03 |
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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' | Self | 2003-12-02 |
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The Biographer | Andrew Morton | 2002-09-01 |
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Blood Strangers | DC David Ingram | 2002-02-03 |
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Queen of the Damned | David Talbot | 2002-02-10 |
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Hornblower: Retribution | Lt. Bush | 2001-04-15 |
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Hotel! | Ben Carter | 2001-02-17 |
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Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story | Self- Narrator | 2001-04-17 |
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Hornblower: Mutiny | Lieutenant Bush | 2001-04-08 |
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My Kingdom | Dean | 2001-09-10 |
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Withnail and Us | Self | 1999-08-04 |
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The Dance of Shiva | Captain Greville | 1998-12-18 |
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FairyTale: A True Story | Arthur Wright | 1997-10-24 |
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Downtime | Rob | 1997-10-21 |
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Doctor Who | The Doctor | 1996-05-12 |
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The One That Got Away | Chris Ryan | 1996-02-18 |
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The Merchant of Venice | Bassanio | 1996-01-01 |
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Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Self | 1996-04-01 |
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Catherine the Great | Potemkin | 1996-04-28 |
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Star Trek Story | Self - Commentary (voice) | 1996-08-26 |
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The Hanging Gale | Liam Phelan | 1995-01-01 |
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The Three Musketeers | Girard / Jussac | 1993-11-11 |
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Alien³ | Golic | 1992-05-22 |
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Afraid of the Dark | Tony | 1991-10-10 |
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Paper Mask | Matthew Harris | 1990-09-14 |
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The Monk | Father Lorenzo Rojas | 1990-01-17 |
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Drowning in the Shallow End | Colin | 1990-01-28 |
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Streets of Yesterday | Joseph | 1989-05-01 |
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Dealers | Daniel Pascoe | 1989-11-03 |
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Tree of Hands | Barry | 1989-03-07 |
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The Rainbow | Anton Skrebensky | 1989-05-05 |
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The Importance of Being Earnest | John Worthing | 1988-05-29 |
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Withnail & I | ...& I | 1987-06-19 |
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Cariani and the Courtesans | Giovanni Cariani | 1987-08-05 |
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Empire of the Sun | Lieutenant Price | 1987-12-09 |
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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle | Mo Morris | 1984-12-31 |
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Gaskin | Graham Gaskin | 1983-01-07 |
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Whistling Wally | Norman | 1982-04-06 |