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Acting

Paul McGann

Career: Active from 1977 to 2026, busiest in 2014 with 8 main titles.

Leading roles: 89
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Secrets of the Castle
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 55 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Paul McGann Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
4.2, average 5.4
Physical Comedy
1.4, average 2.4
Showbiz
0.2, average 1.2
Nostalgia
2.9, average 3.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 9
Character-Driven 5
Historical Drama 5
Nature Documentary 4
Wildlife Exploration 4
Social Commentary 4
Educational & Informative 3
Biodiversity Focus 3
Psychological Drama 3
Moral Dilemma 3
Period Piece 3
Political Intrigue 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

139

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

14 titles · average score 67

Good Behaviour

as Richard

The Marbles

as Lord Byron (voice)

Bookish

82

TV show · as Mr. Kind

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Churchill’s Forgotten War

as Narrator (voice)

Doctor Who at the Proms

as The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

The Undertaker

56

as Arthur

Mia and the Dragon Princess

50

as Walsh

Swallow Your Dreams

as James

Anne

71

TV show · as Malcolm Thornton MP

Annika

71

TV show · as Jake Strathearn

McDonald & Dodds

71

TV show · as Archie Addington

2010s

42 titles · average score 76

Perplexed Music

as Man

Wildest Europe

TV show · as Narrator

Wildest Islands of Indonesia

TV show · as Narrator

Wild Sri Lanka

TV show · as Paul McGann

Wildest Indochina

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

The Minister of Chance: Prologue

as Durian

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

82

as The Doctor

Brady and Hindley: Possession

as Narrator (voice)

A Mother's Son

67

TV show · as David

Wildest Islands

80

TV show · as Narrator

The 9/11 Surfer

as Narrator

Luther

81

TV show · as Mark North

2000s

42 titles · average score 66

Moving On

73

TV show · as Phil

Collision

74

TV show · as Richard Reeves

Lesbian Vampire Killers

35

as Vicar

True Dare Kiss

TV show · as Nash McKinnon

Tripping Over

36

TV show · as Jeremy

Zero Hour

76

TV show · as Narrator (Voice)

as Man

Hornblower: Loyalty

76

as Lieutenant Bush

Hornblower: Duty

79

as Lieutenant Bush

Queen of the Damned

41

as David Talbot

Blood Strangers

TV show · as DC David Ingram

TV show · as Patrick Vine

1990s

21 titles · average score 61

Forgotten

74

TV show · as Ben Turner

Hornblower

TV show · as William Bush

Our Mutual Friend

79

TV show · as Eugene Wrayburn

FairyTale: A True Story

60

as Arthur Wright

Doctor Who

60

as The Doctor

Catherine the Great

54

as Potemkin

The One That Got Away

63

as Chris Ryan

The Hanging Gale

68

TV show · as Liam Phelan

The Three Musketeers

51

as Girard / Jussac

Alien³

54

as Golic

Nice Town

TV show · as Joe Thompson

Paper Mask

61

as Matthew Harris

1980s

18 titles · average score 71

Dealers

57

as Daniel Pascoe

The Rainbow

61

as Anton Skrebensky

Streets of Yesterday

as Joseph

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Dr. Peter Lord

The Importance of Being Earnest

59

as John Worthing

Withnail & I

81

as ...& I

Cariani and the Courtesans

as Giovanni Cariani

Empire of the Sun

73

as Lieutenant Price

The Monocled Mutineer

79

TV show · as Percy Toplis

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Colin

Give us a Break

TV show · as Mo Morris

Natural World

80

TV show · as Narrator

1970s

2 titles · average score 68

Fish

65

TV show

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Norman