Paul McGann
Birthday: 1959-11-14
Place of Birth: Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
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.
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The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
Theis documentary contains the best in-depth interviews with Paul McGann (the Eighth Doctor), Daphne...
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Nero's Sunken City
Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, t...
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The One That Got Away
The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to ke...
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Gypo
Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become th...
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Alien³
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a priso...
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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 mysteri...
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Withnail & I
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail ...
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The Rainbow
Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beaut...
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Hornblower: Mutiny
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and ar...
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Doctor Who
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grac...
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Tiger Island
Jungle tigers are turning into man-eaters in the exotic island of Sumatra. Now a maverick millionair...
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Super Powered Owls
With their charismatic faces and extraordinary head-turning ability, owls are one of our best-loved ...
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The Orangutan King
For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borne...
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Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
The history of still life painting with oil paints...
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Hornblower: Loyalty
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with e...
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Hornblower: Duty
Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship whic...
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Mia and the Dragon Princess
Mia, a plucky barmaid, has her life thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workpl...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers
With their women having been enslaved by a pack of lesbian vampires, the remaining menfolk of a rura...
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My Kingdom
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over...
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Godard & Others
An uncompromising anarchic comedy about the state of independent film making in Britain's ever incre...
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Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German naval En...
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor, meets the talented people and stars who have helped create the show...
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Catherine the Great
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves ...
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Dealers
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; a...
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Paper Mask
A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of ...
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Hornblower: Retribution
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and p...
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Downtime
Former police psychologist Rob helps to save young Chrissy when she is about to commit suicide by ju...
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A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
A writer of crime fiction is suffering from writer's block. Haunted by dreams of his wife and child,...
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Swallow Your Dreams
James finds himself the unlikely composer of a beautiful symphony in his dreams, which - at the expe...
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Otherworld
Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover...
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Drowning in the Shallow End
Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, an...
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The Day of the Sun Dog
A grieving widow now confines herself and her ageing terrier indoors, until the arrival of ‘Jaggers’...
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If I Had You
A police detective moves back to her hometown and immediately becomes embroiled in a murder investig...
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Brady and Hindley: Possession
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's horrific child killing spree shocked the nation and they have been fron...
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Hotel!
The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held h...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f...
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Star Trek Story
Gene Roddenberry's Utopian vision of humanity in the 24th century had a profound effect on American ...
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Ba...
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The Merchant of Venice
A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Ven...
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The Undertaker
A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a gro...
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Talking Doctor Who
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back thro...
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Doctor Who Am I
In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with...
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My Dad Was a Communist
Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating epis...
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Lie with Me
Roselyn Tyler awakens in her London flat with no memory of the previous night. She discovers that sh...
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Cariani and the Courtesans
When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in t...
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Death of an Idealist
Rachel Corrie was aged 23 when she was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer....
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Empire of the Sun
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...
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Afraid of the Dark
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions....
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is ...
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Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
In 1996, Doctor Who returned as a TV Movie, filmed on location in Vancouver, Canada. Actress Daphne ...
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Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winne...
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Gaskin
Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in ca...
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Queen of the Damned
Vampire Lestat awakens from his slumber and becomes a rock star. But chaos strikes when his music aw...
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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score...
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The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards,...
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The Dance of Shiva
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his fait...
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The Hanging Gale
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive du...
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Brakes
Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the s...
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Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the ...
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The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made stru...
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Always Crashing in the Same Car
At a late-night meeting with nine colleagues, James, an executive of some sort, wants action to avoi...
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Absence
Absence offers a snapshot of a man mourning someone very close to him, and over the course of the fi...
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The 9/11 Surfer
Immediately after 9/11, rumors emerged of someone who had 'surfed' the debris to safety. A Discovery...
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Fables of Forgotten Things
A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory e...
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Blood Strangers
A mother is dealt a double blow when she learns that her murdered teenage daughter was working as a ...
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Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack
The story of how Bristol found its musical identity and tracing the creation of the city's most famo...
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B&B
Gay Londoners Marc and Fred plan for a weekend of mischief, baiting the Christian owner of a remote ...
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Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
In January 1996 filming began on a new episode of Doctor Who set in San Francisco, but shot in Vanco...
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FairyTale: A True Story
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific e...
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The Monk
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his streng...
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Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Go behind the scenes of Dr Who as never before - and discover the 'lost tales' of the show! Doctors ...
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The Other Prince William
For the first time on camera Zsuzsi Starkloff tells the story of her forbidden relationship with Pri...
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Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
There are many myths surrounding the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Previous excavations have not led t...
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Picasso's Last Stand
Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star wit...
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JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence
Documentary investigating the events during and after the assassination of John F Kennedy....
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World of Compulsive Hoarders
Four compulsive hoarders are driven to accumulate objects but can't bear to throw them out -- to the...
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Art Is...
A talented artist struggles to cope with the pressures leading up to her first solo exhibition....
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Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Cent...
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Churchill: When Britain Said No
Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the Gen...
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Davros Connections
Exclusive to this boxset is Brendan Sheppard's new documentary, Davros Connections, which pulls toge...
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SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
The true story of the official Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Was a ship called The Californian ...
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Ghosts on the Underground
More than one billion people use the London Underground annually, yet few of them know just how haun...
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The Biographer
Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana....
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Doctor Who: Shada
Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by h...
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The Day John Lennon Died
Reconstructing John’s last day in detail by way of radio and TV reports, the memories of people John...
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Streets of Yesterday
This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Isr...
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Whistling Wally
17 year old Kevin discovers that his sick father, Whistling Wally, is dying....
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Listening
At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of ...
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The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
Presented by Paul McGann, The Cavern Club and LA Factual have come together to produce "The Cavern C...
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Tree of Hands
A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed vi...
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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaust...
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Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without co...
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Perplexed Music
The film explores the temporary madness and isolation experienced by a middle-aged man played by Pau...
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Kidnapped
15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship,...
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Digging The Great Escape
The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...
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Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
Something is afoot in the lonely Cornish village of Merrymaid Bay. Rumours of dead men working in th...
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Doctor Who at the Proms
Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring s...
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on ...
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Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comed...
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The Ties That Bind Us
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the s...
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Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on ...
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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 Minist...
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The Minister of Chance: Prologue
The Minister of Chance: Prologue is a spin-off from Death Comes to Time (2002), a webcast audio dram...
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Codebreaker Alan Turing Persecution Of A Genius
The highs and lows of Alan Turing's life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government...
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The Marbles
The Marbles started filming on the 25th of March 2021 the day Greece celebrated its 200th year of fr...
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