Paul McGann Filmography

Born:: November 14, 1959 in Liverpool, England
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Paul McGann is the second oldest child of five, with three other siblings also actors. Raised in a Roman Catholic family, Paul studied his craft at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He is married with two children. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Kidnapped

Actors: Iain Glen, James Anthony Pearson, Paul McGann, Adrian Dunbar, Gregor Fisher, Kirstin Coulter Smith

Synopsis: Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson's enduring 1886 adventure novel, receives its 11th film adaptation in this two-and-a-half-hour miniseries starring young British TV vet James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour, the naïve and hopeful 15-year-old, poised to receive a vast inheritance when he is lured Read More

2005
Gypo

Actors: Pauline McLynn, Paul McGann, Chloe Sirene, Rula Lenska, Freddy Connor

Synopsis: Jan Dunn's drama Gypo concerns a blue-collar British couple named Helen and Paul (Pauline McLynn and Paul McGann) who each find daily life a chore. When their daughter befriends a young woman from Czechoslovakia, the new friend has a positive impact on Helen, while her foreignness causes Paul to Read More

2005
Lie With Me

Synopsis: Thanks to the wonders of GHB, a young London woman loses all memory of her own rape and her best friend's murder in this two-part British television thriller. Plain-Jane Ros (Eve Best) lives with her party-girl mate, Jo (Stacey Roca). When Jo turns up dead and Ros is found drugged and raped Read More

2004
My Kingdom

Actors: Richard Harris, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Bell, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's King Lear is transposed into a modern-dress British crime drama in this tense tale of family ties and the lust for power. Sandeman (Richard Harris) is the elderly leader of a Liverpool crime syndicate who is fiercely loyal to his wife Mandy (Lynn Redgrave) and his daughters Read More

12/6/02
Queen of the Damned

Actors: Marguerite Moreau, Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Vincent Perez, Paul McGann

Synopsis: The second and third novels in author Anne Rice's popular book series The Vampire Chronicles provide the inspiration for this horror sequel starring ill-fated actress and recording artist Aaliyah, who was killed in an airplane crash before the film's release. Stuart Townsend is the vampire Lestat Read More

2/22/02
The Biographer: The Secret Life of Princess Di

Actors: Paul McGann, Rachel Preece, Faye Dunaway, Brian Cox, Francesca Hunt

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film was adapted from the 1992 book Diana: Her True Story, which in turn was based on secret correspondence between Britain's Princess Diana and London Daily Mail reporter Andrew Morton (here played by Paul McGann). With the myth of her "storybook romance" with husband Prince Charles Read More

2002
Forgotten

Actors: Paul McGann, Amanda Burton

Synopsis: A man who has tried cover the tracks of his past encounters a women determined to tell the world his secrets in this thriller produced for British television. Ben Turner (Paul McGann) is a happily married man in his late thirties who owns a used book shop and helps his wife run an inn in a small Read More

1999
Our Mutual Friend

Actors: Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh

Synopsis: One of several British miniseries adaptations of Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend, this four-part version debuted over the BBC in 1998. The production's generous running time (total: six hours), enabled scenarist Sandy Welch to include virtually every important detail in this complex Read More

1998
Fairy Tale: A True Story

Actors: Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Paul McGann, Phoebe Nicholls, Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Two young girls who believe that fairies are real attempt to prove it to the world in this drama based on actual events. In 1917, there is little to be happy about in the Wright household in West Yorkshire, England. Polly (Phoebe Nicholls) and her 12-year-old daughter Elsie (Florence Hoath) are Read More

1997
Downtime

Actors: Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, Tom Georgeson, David Roper, Denise Bryson

Synopsis: Indian-born Bharat Nalluri directed this British thriller, set in a rundown Newcastle housing project in northeast England. Suicidal Irishwoman Chrissy (Susan Lynch) is on the brink of jumping from a 21st-story balcony with her four-year-old son Jake (Adam Johnston). Former police psychologist Rob Read More

1997
Doctor Who

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Coproduced by the BBC and America's Fox Network, the two-hour movie Doctor Who was an attempt to revive the phenomenally popular science-fiction series which orginally ran from 1963 to 1989. Sylvester McCoy, the last of seven actors to play the Doctor, here repeats his familiar role--albeit Read More

1996
The Hanging Gale

Actors: Paul McGann, Joe McGann, Mark McGann

Synopsis: The four-part BBC1 miniseries The Hanging Gale was set in 1846, the year of the Irish potato famine. As starvation stared them in the face, a group of farming families banded together to survive. Among these hardy souls were the Phelan Brothers (played by the real-life McGann brothers), who Read More

1995
Catherine the Great

Actors: Ian Richardson, Omar Sharif, Jeanne Moreau, Craig McLachlan, Brian Blessed, Mel Ferrer, Hannes Jaenicke, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann

Synopsis: Marvin J. Chomsky's sweeping historical drama, Catherine the Great, features Catherine Zeta-Jones as the title character. The film traces how the leader was able to skillfully manipulate both the societal institutions of the day as well as the powerful men who surrounded her in order to gain Read More

1995
The One That Got Away

Actors: Paul McGann

Synopsis: This British drama tells the story of a soldier who escaped captivity after a mission gone-awry. Paul McGann plays Corporal Chris Ryan, one soldier in a crew sent on a mission to destroy SCUD missiles after Saddam Hussein threatened Israel. Ryan's team was attacked, leaving several dead and the Read More

1995
The Three Musketeers

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry

Synopsis: This comedy-adventure is one of several adaptations of Alexadre Dumas' (pere) classic novel. Provincial swordsman D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) travels to Paris to follow in his father's footsteps and become a king's guard, a musketeer. Meanwhile, the evil royal advisor Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Read More

1993
Afraid of the Dark

Actors: Ben Keyworth, James Fox, Paul McGann, Fanny Ardant, Clare Holman, Robert Stephens

Synopsis: A young boy comes to fear that his blind mother may become the next victim of a serial killer in this complex psychological thriller. Unfolding at first as a traditional suspense tale, the film follows the terrified boy's attempts to determine the killer's identity, a task his policeman father has Read More

7/24/92
Alien ³

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover

Synopsis: Acclaimed director David Fincher's promising career was lucky to survive this astonishingly wrong-headed, almost universally despised second sequel to Alien (1979). The film careens into oblivion virtually from the beginning, as Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor of a Read More

5/22/92
Paper Mask

Actors: Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Frederick Treves, Tom Wilkinson, Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Synopsis: Christopher Morahan directed this nail-biting suspense melodrama that takes a cynical look at the medical profession. Matthew Harris (Paul McGann) is an unhappy intern at a London hospital who envies the staff doctors and their calling. When a physician who resembles Matthew is killed in an auto Read More

11/27/91
El Fraile

Actors: Paul McGann, Sophie Ward, Isla Blair, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Freda Dowie

Synopsis: Francisco Lara Polop directs this adaptation of a dark tale from 18th-century literature. El Fraile concerns the quandary of a monk (Paul McGann) whose resolve is tested by the charms of the mysterious Matlilda (Sophie Ward). ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Innocent Victim

Actors: Helen Shaver, Lauren Bacall, Malcolm Stoddard, Peter Firth, Paul McGann

Synopsis: Innocent Victim is a psychological thriller based on the Ruth Rendell novel Tree of Hands. London based, best-selling author, Benet (Helen Shaver), who has just written a controversial novel, lives alone with her young son. Benet's mother, Marsha (Lauren Becall), visiting from the United States Read More

1990
Dealers

Actors: Paul McGann, Rebecca De Mornay, Derrick O'Connor, John Castle, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: The financial and personal dealings of high finance set the stage for this drama. The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner (Simon Slater) commits suicide by putting a Read More

11/3/89
The Rainbow

Actors: Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Christopher Gable, David Hemmings

Synopsis: Director Ken Russell returns to the D.H. Lawrence territory that had earlier served him well in Women in Love. Sammi Davis plays Lawrence's Welsh heroine Ursula Brangwen, daughter of a wealthy mine owner, who is first seen as a child given to literally chasing rainbows. Disappointed that she can Read More

5/5/89
Empire of the Sun

Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family in pre-World War II Shanghai. During the Japanese invasion, Bale is separated from his parents. With the help of soldier-of-fortune John Malkovich Read More

12/9/87
Withnail & I

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: Screenwriter Bruce Robinson made his directorial debut with this British comedy. Withnail (Richard E. Grant) is an unsuccessful, pill-popping actor; "I," or Marwood (Paul McGann), is Withnail's roommate and another equally underemployed actor. The time is 1969: Withnail is fast becoming a Read More

6/19/87