Paul McGann

Paul McGann

Acting

Born November 14, 1959 · Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

1 film as director · Active 2009–2009

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 portrayi…

Known for

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

Play for Today

Play for Today

1970

Holby City

Holby City

1999

Horizon

Horizon

1964

Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

Natural World

Natural World

1983

Screen Two

Screen Two

1985

New Tricks

New Tricks

2004

Directed(1)

No films found.

Acting(173)

2026Triesverse: CataclysmThe Doctor

2026Good BehaviourRichard

2025The MarblesLord Byron (voice)

2025BookishMr. Kind

2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

2024Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2024Churchill’s Forgotten WarNarrator (voice)

2023The Day of the Sun DogJaggers

2023The UndertakerArthur

2023Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2023Mia and the Dragon PrincessWalsh

2022Doctor Who Am ISelf

2022Swallow Your DreamsJames

2022AnneMalcolm Thornton MP

2021AnnikaJake Strathearn

2021Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the WorldSelf - Narrator

2020The Big Night InSelf

2020McDonald & DoddsArchie Addington

2019The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

2019Victorian SensationsSelf - Presenter

2019The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes OnSelf

2019Swans: Mystery of the MissingSelf - Narrator (voice)

2018Picasso's Last StandNarrator

2018Oi For England's Green and Pleasant LandHimself

2017Perplexed MusicMan

2017BrakesPeter

2017Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New EvidenceNarrator (voice)

2017Nero's Sunken CityNarrator (English Voice)

2017Wildest EuropeNarrator

2016Wildest Islands of IndonesiaNarrator

2016Unfinished: The Making of Massive AttackNarrator (Voice)

2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)

2015China - Treasures of the Jade EmpireNarrator

2015The Other Prince WilliamSelf - Narrator (voice)

2015Finding Babylon's Hanging GardenNarrator (voice)

2015Churchill: When Britain Said NoNarrator (voice)

2015Shark: Beneath the Surfaceself, narrator

2015SharkHimself - Narrator

2015Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peacenarrator

2015Super Powered OwlsNarrator

2015Wild Sri LankaPaul McGann

2014Wildest Middle EastNarrator

2014The Great Wall of China: The Hidden StoryHimself

2014Secrets of the CastleNarrator (Voice)

2014The Minister of Chance: PrologueDurian

2014Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space RaceNarrator (Voice)

2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf

2014Wildest IndochinaNarrator (voice)

2014France: The Wild SideNarrator

2014Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius

2014A Little Place Off the Edgware RoadJames Craven

2014The MusketeersSt Pierre

2014Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life PaintingNarrator

2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf

2013Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2013Doctor Who: The Night of the DoctorThe Doctor

2013JFK's Secret Killer: The EvidenceHimself - Narrator (voice)

2013Brady and Hindley: PossessionNarrator (voice)

2013Art Is...Lulu's Dad

2013Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf

2012Wildest IslandsNarrator

2012Ripper StreetStanley Bone

2012Britain's Greatest CodebreakerHimself - Narrator (voice)

2012The Bletchley CircleJohn Richards

2012A Mother's SonDavid

2012Tiger IslandNarrator

2012Wildest Latin AmericaSelf - Narrator (voice)

2012SOS: The Titanic InquirySir Rufus Isaacs

2011Digging The Great Escapenarrator

2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

2011Gadaffi and the IRANarrator

2011The 9/11 SurferNarrator

2010The Day John Lennon DiedNarrator

2010Godard & OthersTorrence

2010LutherMark North

2009CollisionRichard Reeves

2009Moving OnPhil

2009Lesbian Vampire KillersVicar

2008Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2008Fables of Forgotten ThingsClarence

2008My Dad Was a CommunistNarrator

2008The True StoryNarrator

2008The Ties That Bind UsSelf - Narrator

2007Davros Connections(archival audio)

2007The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the RestHimself - Narrator (voice)

2007Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal TakeoverNarrator

2007True Dare KissNash McKinnon

2007Always Crashing in the Same CarBill Mackinnon

2007World of Compulsive Hoarders

2006Tripping OverJeremy

2006If I Had YouPhilip Andrews

2005Ghosts on the UndergroundNarrator

2005The Orangutan KingNarrator

2005PsychoNarrator

2005KidnappedColonel MacNab

2005Daphne Ashbrook in the UK

2005Twisted TalesPhone (voice)

2005Death of an IdealistNarrator

2004Agatha Christie's MarpleDickie Erskine

2004Lie with MeGerry Henson

2004Lie with MeGerry Henson

2004Zero HourNarrator (Voice)

2004Bible MysteriesHimself-Narrator

2004Sea of SoulsChristopher Chambers

2004New TricksD.C.I. James Larson

2003Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'Self

2003ListeningMan

2003OtherworldKing Matholwch (voice)

2003Doctor Who: ShadaThe Doctor (voice)

2003Hornblower: DutyLieutenant Bush

2003Hornblower: LoyaltyLieutenant Bush

2002The BiographerAndrew Morton

2002Queen of the DamnedDavid Talbot

2002Blood StrangersDC David Ingram

2002Blood StrangersDC David Ingram

2001Sweet RevengePatrick Vine

2001My KingdomDean

2001Waking the DeadACC Tony Nicholson

2001Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins StorySelf- Narrator

2001Hornblower: RetributionLt. Bush

2001Hornblower: MutinyLieutenant Bush

2001Hotel!Ben Carter

2000FishJonathan Vishnevski

2000Nature BoySteve Witton

1999Withnail and UsSelf

1999ForgottenBen Turner

1999Holby CityJohn Gaskell

1998The Dance of ShivaCaptain Greville

1998HornblowerWilliam Bush

1998Our Mutual FriendEugene Wrayburn

1997FairyTale: A True StoryArthur Wright

1997DowntimeRob

1996Testament: The Bible in AnimationDavid (voice)

1996Star Trek StorySelf - Commentary (voice)

1996Doctor WhoThe Doctor

1996Catherine the GreatPotemkin

1996Bidding Adieu: A Video DiarySelf

1996The One That Got AwayChris Ryan

1996The Merchant of VeniceBassanio

1995The Hanging GaleLiam Phelan

1995The Hanging GaleLiam Phelan

1993The Three MusketeersGirard / Jussac

1992Nice TownJoe Thompson

1992Alien³Golic

1991Afraid of the DarkTony

1990Paper MaskMatthew Harris

1990Drowning in the Shallow EndColin

1990The MonkFather Lorenzo Rojas

1989DealersDaniel Pascoe

1989The RainbowAnton Skrebensky

1989Streets of YesterdayJoseph

1989Tree of HandsBarry

1989Agatha Christie's PoirotDr. Peter Lord

1988The Importance of Being EarnestJohn Worthing

1987Empire of the SunLieutenant Price

1987Cariani and the CourtesansGiovanni Cariani

1987Withnail & I...& I

1986The Monocled MutineerPercy Toplis

1986Sunday PremierePercy Toplis

1986ScreenPlayGiovanni Cariani

1985Screen TwoColin

1984Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and MuscleMo Morris

1983Natural WorldNarrator

1983Give us a BreakMo Morris

1983GaskinGraham Gaskin

1982Whistling WallyNorman

1970Play for TodayNorman

1964HorizonHimself