Paul McGann - Actor Profile

Paul McGann

50Movies
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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.

Top Rated Movies

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Swans: Mystery of the Missing (2019) movie poster
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Swans: Mystery of the Missing — With narration from Paul McGann, this ground-breaking film sets out to solve one of nature's mysterious phenomena: the B

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

2019•Documentary
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The Orangutan King (2005) movie poster
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The Orangutan King — For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borneo, one of their last

The Orangutan King

2005•Documentary
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Swallow Your Dreams (2022) movie poster
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Swallow Your Dreams — James finds himself the unlikely composer of a beautiful symphony in his dreams, which - at the expense of his marriage

Swallow Your Dreams

2022•Drama
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Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (2015) movie poster
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Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace — Just weeks after VE day, Winston Churchill found himself in new battle: to be reelected Prime Minister. Confident of his

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

2015•Documentary
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Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden (2015) movie poster
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Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden — There are many myths surrounding the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Previous excavations have not led to an answer to the q

Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

2015•Documentary

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2024 Doctor Who at the Proms The Doctor (8) (archive footage) ★ 7.2 HIT
2024 Churchill’s Forgotten War Narrator (voice) ★ 8.0 HIT
2023 Mia and the Dragon Princess Walsh ★ 6.6 HIT
2022 Swallow Your Dreams James ★ 10.0 HIT
2019 The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On Self ★ 7.8 HIT
2019 Swans: Mystery of the Missing Narrator (voice) ★ 10.0 HIT
2017 Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence Narrator (voice) ★ 8.0 HIT
2017 B&B Josh ★ 6.3 FLOP
2015 Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited) ★ 8.0 HIT
2015 China - Treasures of the Jade Empire Narrator ★ 8.7 HIT
2015 Absence Man ★ 7.0 HIT
2015 Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden Narrator (voice) ★ 9.0 HIT
2015 Churchill: When Britain Said No Narrator (voice) ★ 8.0 HIT
2015 Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace narrator ★ 10.0 HIT
2014 The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story Himself ★ 5.9 FLOP
2014 Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race Narrator (Voice) ★ 7.4 HIT
2014 Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting Narrator ★ 8.5 HIT
2013 Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor The Doctor (8) (archive footage) ★ 8.2 HIT
2013 The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot Self ★ 7.8 HIT
2013 Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor The Doctor ★ 8.0 HIT
2013 JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence Himself - Narrator (voice) ★ 7.3 HIT
2013 Brady and Hindley: Possession Narrator (voice) ★ 6.5 HIT
2012 Britain's Greatest Codebreaker Himself - Narrator (voice) ★ 5.9 FLOP
2012 SOS: The Titanic Inquiry Sir Rufus Isaacs ★ 6.4 FLOP
2011 Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time - ★ 8.0 HIT
2011 The 9/11 Surfer Narrator ★ 6.0 FLOP
2010 The Day John Lennon Died Narrator ★ 8.0 HIT
2008 Doctor Who: The Next Doctor The Doctor (8) (archive footage) ★ 7.4 HIT
2007 Always Crashing in the Same Car Bill Mackinnon ★ 6.7 HIT
2006 If I Had You Philip Andrews ★ 7.0 HIT
2005 Ghosts on the Underground Narrator ★ 7.0 HIT
2005 The Orangutan King Narrator ★ 10.0 HIT
2003 Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' Self ★ 7.8 HIT
2003 Listening Man ★ 7.3 HIT
2003 Doctor Who: Shada The Doctor (voice) ★ 7.0 HIT
2003 Hornblower: Duty Lieutenant Bush ★ 7.3 HIT
2003 Hornblower: Loyalty Lieutenant Bush ★ 7.1 HIT
2002 Queen of the Damned David Talbot ★ 6.1 FLOP
2001 Hornblower: Retribution Lt. Bush ★ 7.3 HIT
2001 Hornblower: Mutiny Lieutenant Bush ★ 7.3 HIT
1999 Withnail and Us Self ★ 6.2 FLOP
1997 FairyTale: A True Story Arthur Wright ★ 6.4 FLOP
1996 Doctor Who The Doctor ★ 6.2 FLOP
1996 Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary Self ★ 6.0 FLOP
1996 The One That Got Away Chris Ryan ★ 5.8 FLOP
1993 The Three Musketeers Girard / Jussac ★ 6.4 FLOP
1992 Alien³ Golic ★ 6.4 FLOP
1989 Streets of Yesterday Joseph ★ 7.0 HIT
1987 Empire of the Sun Lieutenant Price ★ 7.5 HIT
1987 Withnail & I ...& I ★ 7.2 HIT