Happy birthday Paul McGann

Paul McGann (born 14th November 1959) played the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie and also voices the role in audio plays for BBC Radio and Big Finish Productions. His is considered to be either the longest or shortest tenure as the Doctor, depending on whether one counts the non-television stories to be canon or not. (Some do not recognize the canonicity of the television movie at all, despite it having been recognized numerous times by the TV series itself (DW: The Next Doctor, The Eleventh Hour, et al).) McGann also gave permission for his likeness to be used in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures novel range and the weekly Doctor Who Magazine comic strip continuing his character's adventures without him having any actual involvement just like Sylvester McCoy before him. McGann made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role. Following on from that part, he was cast as the eponymous "I" in Bruce Robinson's cult film comedy, Withnail and I (1987). He also starred as Anton Skrebensky in Ken Russell's 1989 adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow.

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