Paul McGann
Acting

Paul McGann

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

Alien³
Empire of the Sun
Luther
Queen of the Damned
The Three Musketeers
Withnail & I
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Doctor Who
The Musketeers
Ripper Street
Agatha Christie's Marple
Good Behaviour
Triesverse: Cataclysm
The Marbles
Churchill’s Forgotten War
Mia and the Dragon Princess
The Day of the Sun Dog
The Undertaker
Swallow Your Dreams
Picasso's Last Stand
Nero's Sunken City
Brakes
B&B
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Perplexed Music
Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
Super Powered Owls
Absence
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Shark
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
The Minister of Chance: Prologue
France: The Wild Side
Brady and Hindley: Possession
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
Art Is...
Tiger Island
2012
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
The 9/11 Surfer
Digging The Great Escape
Gadaffi and the IRA
2011
Godard & Others
2010
The Day John Lennon Died
Lesbian Vampire Killers
My Dad Was a Communist
Fables of Forgotten Things
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Davros Connections
Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover
If I Had You
Gypo
The Orangutan King
Death of an Idealist
Ghosts on the Underground
Hornblower: Loyalty
Hornblower: Duty
Otherworld
Doctor Who: Shada
Listening
2003
Queen of the Damned
The Biographer
Hornblower: Mutiny
My Kingdom
Hornblower: Retribution
Hotel!
The Dance of Shiva
Downtime
FairyTale: A True Story
The One That Got Away
Doctor Who
Catherine the Great
The Merchant of Venice
The Hanging Gale
The Three Musketeers
Alien³
Afraid of the Dark
Paper Mask
Drowning in the Shallow End
The Monk
The Rainbow
Dealers
Streets of Yesterday
Tree of Hands
The Importance of Being Earnest
Withnail & I
Cariani and the Courtesans
Empire of the Sun
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Gaskin
Whistling Wally
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