Paul McGann
Acting
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.
Known for
2026Good Behaviour
Richard
2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025The Marbles
Lord Byron (voice)
2024Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
The Doctor
2024Doctor Who at the Proms
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2024Churchill’s Forgotten War
Narrator (voice)
2023Mia and the Dragon Princess
Walsh
2023The Day of the Sun Dog
Jaggers
2023The Undertaker
Arthur
2023Talking Doctor Who
Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
2022Swallow Your Dreams
James
2022Doctor Who Am I
Self
2022Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
The Doctor
2020The Big Night In
Self
2019The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019Swans: Mystery of the Missing
Self - Narrator (voice)
2019The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Self
2018Picasso's Last Stand
Narrator
2018Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Himself
2017Nero's Sunken City
Narrator (English Voice)
2017Brakes
Peter
2017B&B
Josh
2017Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Narrator (voice)
2017Perplexed Music
Man