Paul McGann
Born: 1959-11-14
Place of Birth: Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
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.
Known For
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015★ 10.0
Alien³
1992★ 6.4
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017★ 8.0
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013★ 7.3
The Three Musketeers
1993★ 6.4
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019★ 7.8
Paper Mask
1990★ 5.6
Empire of the Sun
1987★ 7.5
Withnail & I
1987★ 7.2
Queen of the Damned
2002★ 6.1
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003★ 7.1
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014★ 0.0
My Kingdom
2001★ 5.1
Hornblower: Duty
2003★ 7.3
If I Had You
2006★ 7.0
Hotel!
2001★ 4.5
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001★ 7.3
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014★ 7.4
The Monk
1990★ 1.7
Dealers
1989★ 4.8
The Rainbow
1989★ 5.5
Nero's Sunken City
2017★ 4.3
Gaskin
1983★ 0.0
Brakes
2017★ 5.6
The Biographer
2002★ 0.0
Davros Connections
2007★ 0.0
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015★ 8.0
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009★ 5.2
My Dad Was a Communist
2008★ 0.0
Downtime
1997★ 5.0
Gypo
2005★ 5.2
Kidnapped
2005★ 0.0
The Hanging Gale
1995★ 0.0
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019★ 2.0
Star Trek Story
1996★ 0.8
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013★ 8.2
Doctor Who
1996★ 6.2
The Undertaker
2023★ 5.5
Whistling Wally
1982★ 0.0
Digging The Great Escape
2011★ 0.0
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008★ 7.4
Swallow Your Dreams
2022★ 10.0
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012★ 6.4
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987★ 0.0
Art Is...
2013★ 0.0
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024★ 8.0
Perplexed Music
2017★ 0.0
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023★ 6.6
Doctor Who Am I
2022★ 4.8
FairyTale: A True Story
1997★ 6.4
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996★ 6.0
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016★ 0.0
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015★ 9.0
Withnail and Us
1999★ 6.2
The Merchant of Venice
1996★ 1.0
Doctor Who: Shada
2003★ 7.0
Ghosts on the Underground
2005★ 7.0
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013★ 7.8
B&B
2017★ 6.3
Catherine the Great
1996★ 5.5
Lie with Me
2004★ 4.5
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014★ 0.0
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007★ 0.0
Picasso's Last Stand
2018★ 0.0
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012★ 5.9
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024★ 7.2
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013★ 8.0
Death of an Idealist
2005★ 0.0
Talking Doctor Who
2023★ 5.0
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003★ 7.8
Super Powered Owls
2015★ 0.0
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008★ 4.0
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025★ 5.3
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988★ 4.7
The One That Got Away
1996★ 5.8
The Day of the Sun Dog
2023★ 0.0
Afraid of the Dark
1991★ 5.4
The Orangutan King
2005★ 10.0
The Day John Lennon Died
2010★ 8.0
Streets of Yesterday
1989★ 7.0
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014★ 0.0
Hornblower: Retribution
2001★ 7.3
Tree of Hands
1989★ 0.0
Otherworld
2003★ 5.1
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011★ 8.0
The Marbles
2025★ 0.0
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005★ 0.0
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019★ 10.0
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014★ 5.9
The Dance of Shiva
1998★ 0.0
The Ties That Bind Us
2008★ 0.0
Shark: Beneath the Surface
2015★ 0.0
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015★ 8.7
The 9/11 Surfer
2011★ 6.0
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014★ 8.5
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018★ 0.0
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984★ 0.0
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007★ 6.7
Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
2024★ 0.0
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990★ 0.0
Blood Strangers
2002★ 4.8
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015★ 8.0
Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014★ 0.0
Absence
2015★ 7.0
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013★ 6.5