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Paul McGann
Born: 1959-11-14 in 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.
Rated Filmography (83)
Sorted by Score10.0
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
2019
10.0
The Orangutan King
2005
10.0
Swallow Your Dreams
2022
10.0
Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
2005
10.0
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
2015
9.0
The Dance of Shiva
1998
9.0
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
2015
9.0
The Biographer
2002
9.0
The Big Night In
2020
8.7
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015
8.5
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
2014
8.2
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
8.0
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
8.0
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
8.0
Churchill: When Britain Said No
2015
8.0
The Day John Lennon Died
2010
8.0
Tree of Hands
1989
8.0
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017
8.0
Churchill’s Forgotten War
2024
8.0
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
7.8
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
7.8
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
7.6
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019
7.5
Empire of the Sun
1987
7.5
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
7.5
Streets of Yesterday
1989
7.4
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
7.4
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
7.4
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014
7.3
Hornblower: Duty
2003
7.3
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
7.3
JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
2013
7.3
Doctor Who: Shada
2003
7.3
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
7.2
Withnail & I
1987
7.2
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
7.0
Downtime
1997
7.0
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
7.0
If I Had You
2006
7.0
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
7.0
Absence
2015
7.0
Ghosts on the Underground
2005
6.7
Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007
6.5
Brady and Hindley: Possession
2013
6.4
Withnail and Us
1999
6.4
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
2012
6.4
Alien³
1992
6.4
The Three Musketeers
1993
6.4
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
6.3
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023
6.3
B&B
2017
6.2
The One That Got Away
1996
6.2
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
2007
6.2
Doctor Who
1996
6.1
Queen of the Damned
2002
6.0
The 9/11 Surfer
2011
6.0
World of Compulsive Hoarders
2007
6.0
Like a Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story
2001
5.9
Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012
5.9
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014
5.7
Afraid of the Dark
1991
5.7
The Rainbow
1989
5.7
Otherworld
2003
5.7
Brakes
2017
5.6
Paper Mask
1990
5.6
Catherine the Great
1996
5.6
Dealers
1989
5.5
My Kingdom
2001
5.5
The Merchant of Venice
1996
5.5
The Undertaker
2023
5.4
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988
5.3
Gypo
2005
5.2
Hotel!
2001
5.2
Lesbian Vampire Killers
2009
5.1
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
5.0
Nero's Sunken City
2017
5.0
Talking Doctor Who
2023
5.0
Gaskin
1983
4.8
Doctor Who Am I
2022
4.0
Fables of Forgotten Things
2008
3.2
The Monk
1990
2.0
The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
2019
1.2
Star Trek Story
1996