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Paul John McGann is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer (1986), then starred in the dark comedy Withnail and I (1987), and later became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television film. He is also known for playing Lieutenant William Bush in the series Hornblower.
Born
Saturday, 14 November 1959
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Undertaker | Arthur | 2023 |
| Italia 90: Four Weeks that Changed the World | Self | 2022 |
| Doctor Who Am I | Self | 2022 |
| Anne | Sir Malcom Thornton / Malcolm Thornton MP | 2022 |
| Annika | Jake Strathearn | 2021 |
| Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World | Self - Narrator | 2021 |
| Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land | Self / Himself | 2021 |
| McDonald & Dodds | Archie Addington | 2020 |
| The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On | Self | 2019 |
| An Accidental Studio | (archive footage) | 2019 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Undertaker | Arthur | 2023 |
| Italia 90: Four Weeks that Changed the World | Self | 2022 |
| Doctor Who Am I | Self | 2022 |
| Anne | Sir Malcom Thornton / Malcolm Thornton MP | 2022 |
| Annika | Jake Strathearn | 2021 |
| Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World | Self - Narrator | 2021 |
| Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land | Self / Himself | 2021 |
| McDonald & Dodds | Archie Addington | 2020 |
| The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On | Self | 2019 |
| An Accidental Studio | (archive footage) | 2019 |
| Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel | Self | 2018 |
| Brakes | Peter | 2017 |
| B&B | Josh | 2017 |
| Big Pacific | Narrator | 2017 |
| Formula E: Ice Drive | Narrator | 2016 |
| China: Between Clouds and Dreams | Self - Narrator | 2016 |
| Letters from Baghdad | Henry Cadogan | 2016 |
| Wildest Europe | Narrator | 2016 |
| Churchill's Secret | Narrator | 2016 |
| Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace | Narrator | 2015 |
| Shark | Himself - Narrator / Self - Narrator | 2015 |
| Wild Sri Lanka | Self - Narrator | 2015 |
| Secrets of the Castle | Narrator | 2014 |
| Wildest Indochina | Narrator | 2014 |
| The Musketeers | St Pierre | 2014 |
| The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Paul McGann / Himself | 2013 |
| Brady and Hindley: Possession | Self - Narrator | 2013 |
| That Hashtag Show | Self | 2013 |
| Her Majesty's Prison: Aylesbury | Self - Narrator | 2013 |
| Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | Himself / The Doctor | 2013 |
| Being a Girl | The Doctor | 2013 |
| Ripper Street | Stanley J. Bone | 2012 |
| Wildest Islands | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 2012 |
| The Bletchley Circle | John Richards | 2012 |
| A Mother's Son | David | 2012 |
| Wildest Arctic | Narrator | 2012 |
| Wildest Latin America | Narrator | 2012 |
| Wildest India | Narrator | 2012 |
| Save Our Souls: The Titanic Inquiry | Sir Rufus Isaacs | 2012 |
| The Petrol Age | Self - Presenter | 2012 |
| Digging the Great Escape | Self - Narrator | 2011 |
| Codebreaker | Himself - Narrator (voice) / Self - Narrator | 2011 |
| ITV Exposure | Narrator | 2011 |
| The 9/11 Surfer | Narrator | 2011 |
| Geek Crash Course | Self | 2011 |
| The Day John Lennon Died | Narrator | 2010 |
| Godard & Others | Torrence | 2010 |
| Luther | Mark North | 2010 |
| Collision | Richard Reeves | 2009 |
| Moving On | Phil | 2009 |
| Vampire Killers | Vicar | 2009 |
| The Legion | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2007 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Golic | 2007 |
| British Film Forever | Marwood | 2007 |
| True Dare Kiss | Nash McKinnon | 2007 |
| World of Compulsive Hoarders | Self - Narrator | 2007 |
| Tripping Over | Jeremy | 2006 |
| The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006 |
| If I Had You | Phillip Andrews | 2006 |
| I Shouldn't Be Alive | Self - Narrator / Narrator | 2005 |
| Gypo | Paul | 2005 |
| Doctor Who | The Doctor / The Doctor (archive footage) | 2005 |
| Doctor Who Confidential | The Eighth Doctor / The Doctor | 2005 |
| Cathedral | Self - Narrator | 2005 |
| Twisted Tales | Phone | 2005 |
| Marple | Dickie Erskine | 2004 |
| Lie with Me | Gerry Henson | 2004 |
| Zero Hour | Self - Narrator | 2004 |
| Bible Mysteries | Himself-Narrator / Self -Narrator | 2004 |
| Sea of Souls | Christopher Chambers | 2004 |
| Otherworld | King Matholwch / King Matholwch (voice) | 2003 |
| The Real Story | Self - Narrator / Narrator | 2003 |
| Extraordinary People | Narrator | 2003 |
| New Tricks | D.C.I. James Larson | 2003 |
| Hornblower: Duty | Lieutenant Bush | 2003 |
| Hornblower: Loyalty | Lieutenant Bush | 2003 |
| Timeshift | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2002 |
| The Biographer | Andrew Morton | 2002 |
| Queen of the Damned | David Talbot | 2002 |
| My Kingdom | Dean | 2001 |
| Horatio Hornblower: Retribution | Lieutenant Bush / Lt. Bush | 2001 |
| Hornblower: Mutiny | Lieutenant Bush | 2001 |
| Hotel! | Ben Carter | 2001 |
| Waking the Dead | ACC Tony Nicholson | 2000 |
| Fish | Jonathan Vishnevski (Fish) | 2000 |
| Nature Boy | Steve Witton | 2000 |
| Loose Women | Self | 1999 |
| Withnail and Us | Himself / Self | 1999 |
| Forgotten | Ben Turner | 1999 |
| Holby City | John Gaskell | 1999 |
| Hornblower | William Bush | 1998 |
| Our Mutual Friend | Eugene Wrayburn | 1998 |
| Downtime | Rob | 1998 |
| FairyTale: A True Story | Arthur Wright | 1997 |
| Jonathan Creek | Hugo Dore | 1997 |
| Testament: The Bible in Animation | David | 1996 |
| Doctor Who | The Doctor | 1996 |
| The One That Got Away | Cpl. Chris Ryan / Chris Ryan | 1996 |
| The Merchant of Venice | Bassanio | 1996 |
| The Hanging Gale | Liam Phelan | 1995 |
| The Three Musketeers | Jussac / Girard | 1993 |
| Nice Town | Joe Thompson | 1992 |
| Alien³ | Golic / Walter Golic | 1992 |
| The Making of 'Alien 3' | Self | 1992 |
| Secret History | Narrator | 1991 |
| Afraid of the Dark | Tony Dalton / Tony | 1991 |
| Paper Mask | Matthew Harris | 1990 |
| Dealers | Daniel Pascoe | 1989 |
| The Rainbow | Anton Skrebensky | 1989 |
| Innocent Victim | Barry | 1989 |
| Poirot | Dr. Peter Lord | 1989 |
| Empire of the Sun | Lt. Price | 1987 |
| Dispatches | Narrator | 1987 |
| Withnail & I | ...& I | 1987 |
| The Monocled Mutineer | Percy Toplis | 1986 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | John Worthing / Jack | 1986 |
| Screen Two | Colin | 1985 |
| Natural World | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 1983 |
| Play for Today | Norman | 1970 |
| Horizon | Self - Narrator | 1964 |
| Panorama | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1953 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Moving On | 2009 |
