Paul McGann, the eighth man to fill the role of The Doctor since the British program began in 1963, stars as the scientist and time traveler who must battle his evil nemesis, the Master, in San Francisco on December 30, 1999 in DOCTOR WHO.
With starring roles spanning feature films, television and theater, McGann is best known to American audiences for his roles in Aliens^3 and The Three Musketters. He also appeared in the feature films Afraid of the Dark, The Monk, Paper Mask, Dealers, The Rainbow, Streets of Yesterday, Tree of Hands and Withnail & I.
On television, McGann has starred in many BBC productions, including Nice Town, Drowning in the Shallow End, Open Space - The War Poets, Cariani and the Courtesan, The Importance of Being Earnest, Monocled Mutineer, Two Weeks in Winter, Gaskin, Russian Night, Whistling Wally and the series Give Us A Break. In addition, he has appeared extensively on the London stage.
Further credits of Paul McGann include:
Movies:
Withnail & I (1987) .... Marwood
Empire of the Sun (1987) .... Lieutenant Price
The Rainbow (1989) .... Anton Skrebensky
Dealers (1989) .... Daniel Pascoe
Innocent Victim (1989) [orig Brit title: Tree of Hands] .... Barry
The Monk (1990)
The Last Temptation (?)
El Fraile (1990)
Paper Mask (1990) .... Matthew Harris
Afraid of the Dark (1991) .... Tony Dalton
Alien ^3 (1992) .... Golic
The Three Musketeers (1993) .... Girard
TV:
Give Us a Break (1983, 8 episodes) .... Mo Morris
Ernest or The Importance of Being Earnest (1986) .... John Worthing
The Monocled Mutineer (1986, 4 episodes) .... Percy Toplis
Cariani and the Courtesans (1987).... Cariani
Drowning in the Shallow End (1990)
Streets of Yesterday
Nice Town (1993?, 3 parts)
Catherine The Great (1994, ? parts) .... Potemkin
The Hanging Gale (1995, 4 parts) .... Liam Phelan
Daphne Ashbrook stars as Dr. Grace Holloway, a San Francisco hospital E.R. surgeon who is drawn into the battle between The Doctor and The Master in DOCTOR WHO.
Ashbrook's made-for-television movies include Jake Lassiter, Poisoned By Love, Intruders, Rock, Perry Mason: The Case of the Married Madam, That Secret Sunday, Betrayal of Trust and cable TV's You Only Die Once. She was a series regular on Triangle, Fortune Dane and Our Family Honor and also had a recurring role on Hooperman. She has guest starred in numerous television series.
Ashbrook has appeared in the feature films Midnight Heat and Quiet Cool and has an extensive theater background.
Further credits of Daphne Ashbrook include:
Theatrical movies:
Gimme An 'F' (1984) female lead .... Phoebe
Quiet Cool (1986) female lead
Sunset Heat (1991) female lead .... Julie
Automatic (1994) female lead .... Nora Rochester
Midnight Heat (1995)
TV movies:
Brothers-in-Law (1985) .... Barbara Jean
That Secret Sunday (1986) .... Collie Sherwood
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987) .... Miranda
Carly's Web (1987) .... Carly Foxe
Longarm (1988) .... Pearl
14 Going on 30 (1988, 2-part) female lead.... Peggy Noble
Rock Hudson (1990) female lead .... Phyllis Gates
Daughters of Privilege (1991) female lead.... Mary Hope
Intruders (1992, 2-part) .... Lesley Hahn
Poisoned by Love: The Kern County Murders (1993) .... Dyna
Diagnosis: Murder "Georgia on My Mind" (1994)
Sweet Justice "Fire" (1995)
Murder She Wrote "Nailed" (1995)
JAG "Pilot Error" (1995)
Eric Roberts received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in Runaway Train as well as Gold Globe nominations for King of the Gypsies and Star 80. Roberts stars in Randal Kleiser's It's My Party, in which he plays an HIV infected man who chooses to end his own life rather than suffer the agony of AIDS.
Born in Biloxi, Mississippi and raised primarily in Atlanta, Roberts received his early stage training from his father, who ran a touring theater company. At age 15, he went to London to train at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts and later studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Having appeared in nearly 100 plays, Roberts distinguished his stage career with a Theater World Award for his Broadway debut in Burn This.
Roberts debuted on the big screen to acclaim at age 20 in King of the Gypsies. He has since appeared in such films as Raggedy Man, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Coca-Cola Kid, Star 80, Final Analysis, Best of the Best, By the Sword, Nobody's Fool and The Specialist.
Last December, he starred as Dannion Brinkley in SAVED BY THE LIGHT, which is the highest-rated original production to air on The FOX Tuesday Night Movie this season.
Sylvester McCoy is the seventh and most recent actor to fill the role of The Doctor since the British program began in 1963.
Born in Dunoon, Argyl, Scotland, McCoy intended to become a priest and spent four years in a Scottish seminary before finishing his education in Dublin and Scotland. His acting career began when he left his job at the box office of the Roundhouse Theatre in London to join a touring road show with the likes of Bob Hoskins, Jane Wood and Dave Hill. He has spent many years working extensively on the London stage as well as starring on British television.
McCoy's feature film experience includes roles in The Teenie Weenies, Dracula with Laurence Olivier and Three Kinds of Heat.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Yee Jee Tso stars as Chang Lee, a San Francisco street kid who unwittingly serves as an accomplice in the evil plans of The Master in his battle against The Doctor in DOCTOR WHO.
On television, Tso was a regular for two seasons on the award-winning Canadian series Madison. At first, he played the role of Twister, who died at the end of the first season. The producers loved Tso so much that they wrote him into the second season as Twister's identical cousin. He also has had a recurring role as Wing on the FOX series SLIDERS. The past year, Tso has also been seen in episodes of The Marshall, Highlander and Kidzone, as well as in the television movie Two.
Tso's feature film credits include the lead role of Kim Li "Blade" Cho in Past Perfect. Additionally, he has worked extensively on the stage.
Philip Segal has spent years establishing a relationship with BBC Worldwide to bring the long-running BBC series DOCTOR WHO to American audiences. His vision and passion for the character and the series have resulted in the television movie DOCTOR WHO, which will air on The FOX Tuesday Night Movie.
Segal began his career as an assistant to Mike Fenton, formerly of Fenton/Feinberg casting, before becoming a literary agent for ICM. In 1985, he moved to Columbia Pictures TV as Director of Drama Development. In 1990, Segal joited ABC as Director of Current Series, Drama, where he guided such series as thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, The Young Riders and China Beach. He then began an association with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, serving as Vice President on Amblin Television. While at Amblin, he worked on such projects as seaQuest DSV, ER, ScreenWorks Theatre, Earth2 and Class of '61. Segal also was influential in the creation of Amblin Imaging, Amblin's in-house computer-generated imagery and special effects group.
Currently, Segal serves as Senior Executive Vice President and Executive Producer of Lakeshore Television. He oversees the development and production of all projects with his partner, Gregg Fienberg. Currently, they are involved in the series The Gatekeeper and Black 12 and in creating and developing a slate of movies and half-hour comedy series for television.