OverviewAI-generated
Paul McGann is a male vocalist and voice actor from Liverpool who began his work period in 1982. He is associated with the genres of voice acting and has been tagged as an English artist. His professional roles include being an actor-singer and a connection to the series Doctor Who.
His published works include Dazzler Plays on, Dear Olly, The Eighth Doctor, The War Master: Hearts of Darkness, and The Skull of Sobek. Bibliographic records list seven works under his author name, while other databases note five works. In terms of audio engagement, he has a playcount of 11,288 and 615 listeners on Last.fm. His profile is referenced by 342 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Dazzler Plays on
- Dear Olly
- The Eighth Doctor
- The War Master : Hearts of Darkness
- The Skull of Sobek
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Liverpool
- Active from
- 1959-11-14
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 615
- Total plays
- 11,288
Tags
Paul John McGann (born 14 November 1959) 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), which was a critical success and developed a cult following. McGann later became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of The Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television film, and following Big Finish Productions audio dramas. He is also known for playing Lieuten
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,818x
- “Mini-mental state”
· 1975 · cited 68,281x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,818x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,742x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1959-11-14 ) 14 November 1959 (age 66) , Kensington, Liverpool , England
- Education
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1982–present
- Spouse
- Annie Milner ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1996 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2006 )
- Children
- Joseph McGann Jake McGann
- Relatives
- Joe McGann (brother) Mark McGann (brother) Stephen McGann (brother) Heidi Thomas (sister-in-law)
via Wikipedia infobox
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Paul John McGann (/məˈɡæn/ mə-GAN; born 14 November 1959) is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer (1986), and subsequently starred in the black comedy film Withnail and I (1987), which became a cult classic. He became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 television film Doctor Who, reprising the role from 2001 in licensed audio dramas, as well as on screen in 2013 and 2022. He is also known for playing Lieutenant William Bush in the television film series Hornblower (1998–2003).
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paul McGann” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.