Date of birth: 1959-11-14
Place of birth: Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as:

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.

2019-09-02
Theis documentary contains the best in-depth interviews with Paul McGann (the Eighth Doctor), Daphne

2017-04-16
Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, t

1996-02-18
The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to ke

2005-08-24
Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become th

1992-05-22
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a priso

2019-03-01
With narration from Paul McGann, this ground-breaking film sets out to solve one of nature's mysteri

1987-06-19
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail

1989-05-05
Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beaut

2001-04-08
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and ar

1996-05-12
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco ā alongside new ally Grac
2012-07-26
Jungle tigers are turning into man-eaters in the exotic island of Sumatra. Now a maverick millionair

2015-03-03
With their charismatic faces and extraordinary head-turning ability, owls are one of our best-loved

2005-10-19
For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borne

2014-01-05
The history of still life painting with oil paints

2003-01-05
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with e

2003-01-06
Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship whic

2023-04-21
Mia, a plucky barmaid, has her life thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workpl

2009-03-16
With their women having been enslaved by a pack of lesbian vampires, the remaining menfolk of a rura

2001-09-10
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over
2010-08-01
An uncompromising anarchic comedy about the state of independent film making in Britain's ever incre

2012-10-17
Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German naval En

2014-08-01
Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor, meets the talented people and stars who have helped create the show

1996-04-28
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves

1989-11-03
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; a

1990-09-14
A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of

2001-04-15
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and p

1997-10-21
Former police psychologist Rob helps to save young Chrissy when she is about to commit suicide by ju

2014-03-03
A writer of crime fiction is suffering from writer's block. Haunted by dreams of his wife and child,

2022-09-12
James finds himself the unlikely composer of a beautiful symphony in his dreams, which - at the expe

2003-06-26
Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover

1999-08-04
A short documentary about the making of "Withnail & I" (1987).

1990-01-28
Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, an

2023-11-26
A grieving widow now confines herself and her ageing terrier indoors, until the arrival of āJaggersā

2006-05-01
A police detective moves back to her hometown and immediately becomes embroiled in a murder investig

2013-07-11
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's horrific child killing spree shocked the nation and they have been fron

2001-02-17
The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held h

1988-05-29
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f

1996-08-26
Gene Roddenberry's Utopian vision of humanity in the 24th century had a profound effect on American

2013-11-23
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Ba

1996-01-01
A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Ven

2023-11-03
A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a gro

2023-11-01
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back thro

2022-10-27
In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with

2008-08-23
Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating epis

2004-11-15
Roselyn Tyler awakens in her London flat with no memory of the previous night. She discovers that sh

1987-08-05
When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in t

2005-01-01
Rachel Corrie was aged 23 when she was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer.

1987-12-09
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all

1991-10-10
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

2013-11-23
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is

2005-02-01
In 1996, Doctor Who returned as a TV Movie, filmed on location in Vancouver, Canada. Actress Daphne

2014-10-13
When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winne

1983-01-01
Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in ca

2002-02-10
Vampire Lestat awakens from his slumber and becomes a rock star. But chaos strikes when his music aw

1984-12-31
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score

1993-11-11
D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards,

1998-12-18
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his fait

1995-01-01
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive du

2017-11-24
Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the s

2013-11-14
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the

2014-11-30
It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made stru

2007-06-03
At a late-night meeting with nine colleagues, James, an executive of some sort, wants action to avoi

2015-10-16
Absence offers a snapshot of a man mourning someone very close to him, and over the course of the fi

2011-09-10
Immediately after 9/11, rumors emerged of someone who had 'surfed' the debris to safety. A Discovery

2008-09-01
A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory e

2002-02-03
A mother is dealt a double blow when she learns that her murdered teenage daughter was working as a

2016-09-05
The story of how Bristol found its musical identity and tracing the creation of the city's most famo

2017-04-13
Gay Londoners Marc and Fred plan for a weekend of mischief, baiting the Christian owner of a remote

1996-04-01
In January 1996 filming began on a new episode of Doctor Who set in San Francisco, but shot in Vanco

1997-10-24
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific e

1990-01-17
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his streng

2011-10-31
Go behind the scenes of Dr Who as never before - and discover the 'lost tales' of the show! Doctors
2015-08-27
For the first time on camera Zsuzsi Starkloff tells the story of her forbidden relationship with Pri

2015-07-12
There are many myths surrounding the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Previous excavations have not led t

2018-03-24
Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picassoās granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star wit

2013-11-13
Documentary investigating the events during and after the assassination of John F Kennedy.

2015-10-18

2007-05-02
Four compulsive hoarders are driven to accumulate objects but can't bear to throw them out -- to the

2013-04-01
A talented artist struggles to cope with the pressures leading up to her first solo exhibition.

2018-01-01
Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Cent

2015-06-02
Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the Gen

2007-11-26
Exclusive to this boxset is Brendan Sheppard's new documentary, Davros Connections, which pulls toge

2012-04-16
The true story of the official Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Was a ship called The Californian

2005-10-31
More than one billion people use the London Underground annually, yet few of them know just how haun

2002-09-01
Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.

2003-05-02
Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by h

2010-12-06
Reconstructing Johnās last day in detail by way of radio and TV reports, the memories of people John

1989-05-01
This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Isr

1982-04-06
17 year old Kevin discovers that his sick father, Whistling Wally, is dying.
2003-10-03
At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of

2019-04-24
Presented by Paul McGann, The Cavern Club and LA Factual have come together to produce "The Cavern C

1989-03-07
A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed vi

2003-12-02
The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaust

2017-09-24
Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without co

2017-01-01
The film explores the temporary madness and isolation experienced by a middle-aged man played by Pau

2005-02-27
15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship,

2011-11-28
The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world

2024-12-31
Something is afoot in the lonely Cornish village of Merrymaid Bay. Rumours of dead men working in th

2024-12-24
Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring s

2008-12-25
The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on

2015-12-25
Itās Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comed

2024-05-04

2008-03-03
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the s

2025-05-31
Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on

2015-05-01
Just weeks after VE day, Winston Churchill found himself in new battle: to be reelected Prime Minist

2014-10-17
The Minister of Chance: Prologue is a spin-off from Death Comes to Time (2002), a webcast audio dram

2015-05-21

2014-04-01
The highs and lows of Alan Turing's life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government

2025-11-07
The Marbles started filming on the 25th of March 2021 the day Greece celebrated its 200th year of fr