Person
Paul McGann
Born 14 November 1959 66 years old Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK Who else is 66? → TMDB ↗
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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The numbers
10age in their first credit on record (1970)
56years on screen and counting
8credits in 2014, their busiest year
123dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 66 Triesverse: Cataclysm
2026as The Doctor
Age: 66 Good Behaviour
2026as Richard
Age: 65 The Marbles
2025as Lord Byron (voice)
Age: 65 Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age: 65 Doctor Who at the Proms
2024as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Age: 64 Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024as Narrator (voice)
Age: 64 The Day of the Sun Dog
2023as Jaggers
Age: 63 The Undertaker
2023as Arthur
Age: 63 Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023as Walsh
Age: 62 Swallow Your Dreams
2022as James
Age: 59 The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
Age: 58 Perplexed Music
2017as Man
Age: 58 Brakes
2017as Peter
Age: 57 Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017as Narrator (voice)
Age: 57 Nero's Sunken City
2017as Narrator (English Voice)
Age: 57 B&B
2017as Josh
Age: 56 Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
2016as Narrator (Voice)
Age: 56 Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015as The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
Age: 55 Absence
2015as Man
Age: 55 Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015as Narrator (voice)
Age: 55 Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015as Narrator (voice)
Age: 54 The Minister of Chance: Prologue
2014as Durian
Age: 54 Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014as Narrator (Voice)
Age: 54 Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
2014
Age: 54 A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
2014as James Craven
Age: 54 Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Age: 54 Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013as The Doctor
Age: 53 Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013as Narrator (voice)
Age: 53 Art Is...
2013as Lulu's Dad
Age: 52 SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012as Sir Rufus Isaacs
Age: 51 Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011No poster
Age: 50 Godard & Others
2010as Torrence
Age: 49 Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009as Vicar
Age: 49 Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
Age: 48 Fables of Forgotten Things
2008as Clarence
Age: 48 Davros Connections
2007as (archival audio)
Age: 47 Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007as Bill Mackinnon
Age: 47 World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
Age: 46 If I Had You
2006as Philip Andrews
Age: 45 Gypo
2005as Paul
Age: 45 Kidnapped
2005as Colonel MacNab
Age: 45 Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
Age: 45 Lie with Me
2004as Gerry Henson
No poster
Age: 43 Listening
2003as Man
Age: 43 Otherworld
2003as King Matholwch (voice)
Age: 43 Doctor Who: Shada
2003as The Doctor (voice)
Age: 43 Hornblower: Duty
2003as Lieutenant Bush
Age: 43 Hornblower: Loyalty
2003as Lieutenant Bush
Age: 42 The Biographer
2002as Andrew Morton
Age: 42 Queen of the Damned
2002as David Talbot
Age: 42 Blood Strangers
2002as DC David Ingram
Age: 41 My Kingdom
2001as Dean
Age: 41 Hornblower: Retribution
2001as Lt. Bush
Age: 41 Hornblower: Mutiny
2001as Lieutenant Bush
Age: 41 Hotel!
2001as Ben Carter
Age: 39 The Dance of Shiva
1998as Captain Greville
Age: 37 FairyTale: A True Story
1997as Arthur Wright
Age: 37 Downtime
1997as Rob
Age: 36 Doctor Who
1996as The Doctor
Age: 36 Catherine the Great
1996as Potemkin
Age: 36 The One That Got Away
1996as Chris Ryan
Age: 36 The Merchant of Venice
1996as Bassanio
Age: 35 The Hanging Gale
1995as Liam Phelan
Age: 33 The Three Musketeers
1993as Girard / Jussac
Age: 32 Alien³
1992as Golic
Age: 31 Afraid of the Dark
1991as Tony
Age: 30 Paper Mask
1990as Matthew Harris
Age: 30 Drowning in the Shallow End
1990as Colin
Age: 30 The Monk
1990as Father Lorenzo Rojas
Age: 29 Dealers
1989as Daniel Pascoe
Age: 29 The Rainbow
1989as Anton Skrebensky
Age: 29 Streets of Yesterday
1989as Joseph
Age: 29 Tree of Hands
1989as Barry
Age: 28 The Importance of Being Earnest
1988as John Worthing
Age: 28 Empire of the Sun
1987as Lieutenant Price
Age: 27 Cariani and the Courtesans
1987as Giovanni Cariani
Age: 27 Withnail & I
1987as ...& I
Age: 25 Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984as Mo Morris
Age: 23 Gaskin
1983as Graham Gaskin
Age: 22 Whistling Wally
1982as Norman
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TV credits
Age: 65 Bookish
2025as Mr. Kind
Age: 62 Anne
2022as Malcolm Thornton MP
Age: 61 Annika
2021as Jake Strathearn
Age: 60 McDonald & Dodds
2020as Archie Addington
Age: 55 Wild Sri Lanka
2015as Paul McGann
Age: 55 Secrets of the Castle
2014as Narrator (Voice)
Age: 54 Wildest Indochina
2014as Narrator (voice)
Age: 54 The Musketeers
2014as St Pierre
Age: 54 The Musketeers
2014as Saint Pierre
Age: 53 Ripper Street
2012as Stanley Bone
Age: 52 The Bletchley Circle
2012as John Richards
Age: 52 A Mother's Son
2012as David
Age: 50 Luther
2010as Mark North
Age: 49 Collision
2009as Richard Reeves
Age: 49 Moving On
2009as Phil
Age: 47 True Dare Kiss
2007as Nash McKinnon
Age: 46 Tripping Over
2006as Jeremy
Age: 45 Kidnapped
2005
Age: 45 Twisted Tales
2005as Phone (voice)
Age: 45 Agatha Christie's Marple
2004as Dickie Erskine
Age: 45 Lie with Me
2004as Gerry Henson
Age: 44 Zero Hour
2004as Narrator (Voice)
Age: 44 Sea of Souls
2004as Christopher Chambers
Age: 44 New Tricks
2004as D.C.I. James Larson
Age: 42 Blood Strangers
2002as DC David Ingram
No poster
Age: 41 Sweet Revenge
2001as Patrick Vine
Age: 41 Waking the Dead
2001as ACC Tony Nicholson
No poster
Age: 40 Fish
2000as Jonathan Vishnevski
Age: 40 Nature Boy
2000as Steve Witton
Age: 39 Forgotten
1999as Ben Turner
Age: 39 Holby City
1999as John Gaskell
Age: 38 Hornblower
1998as William Bush
Age: 38 Our Mutual Friend
1998as Eugene Wrayburn
Age: 36 Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996as David (voice)
Age: 35 The Hanging Gale
1995as Liam Phelan
No poster
Age: 33 Nice Town
1992as Joe Thompson
Age: 29 Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989as Dr. Peter Lord
Age: 26 The Monocled Mutineer
1986as Percy Toplis
Age: 26 ScreenPlay
1986as Giovanni Cariani
Age: 25 Screen Two
1985as Colin
Age: 23 Give us a Break
1983as Mo Morris
Age: 17 Fish
1977
Age: 10 Play for Today
1970as Norman