- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- January 15, 1991
- Place of Birth
- York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
James Swanton
James Swanton is best known for otherworldly characters. He fathered the Antichrist as both Satan in Apartment 7A (2024) and the Jackal in The First Omen (2024), as well as appearing as the Magician in Tarot (2024), the Ash Man in Stopmotion (2023), the Spirit in Host (2020) and the Creature in Frankenstein's Creature (2018). He also played the title roles in two BBC chillers: Lot No. 249 (2023), Mark Gatiss's Ghost Story for Christmas, and The Curse of the Ninth (2024) in the final series of Inside No. 9 (2014). As a stage actor, James has been closely associated with Dickens. He took his acclaimed one-man play "Sikes & Nancy" to the West End's Trafalgar Studios and annually performs "A Christmas Carol" (amongst other ghost stories) at London's Charles Dickens Museum.
Filmography
movieThe Fairy Moon
2025 · Syd
movieThe Severed Sun
2025 · The Beast
movieApartment 7A
2024 · Satan
movieTarot
2024 · The Hermit / The Magician
movieThe First Omen
2024 · Jackal Performer
movieStopmotion
2024 · Ash Man
movieA Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
2023 · The Mummy
movieThe Dead of Winter
2023 · The Figure
movieUnderground
2023 · Jedrek / Demon
movieTo Fire You Come at Last
2023 · Ransley
movieStop Dead
2022 · The Still Man
movieWalking Against the Rain
2022 · The Forsaken
movieThe Haunting of the Tower of London
2022 · Solomon
movieDashcam
2022 · The Parasite
movieThe Jack in the Box: Awakening
2022 · Jack
movieWerewolf Castle
2022 · Councillor
movieIrving Undead
2021 · Henry Irving, Director, Writer
movieBroadcast Signal Intrusion
2021 · Sal-E Sparx
movieThe Banishing
2021 · Monk
movieThe Thing That Ate the Birds
2021 · The Thing That Ate the Birds
movieA Werewolf in England
2020 · Willie
movieHost
2020 · The Spirit
movieVampire Virus
2020 · Father
movieA Little More Flesh
2020 · Stanley Durall
movieBlack Mass
2019 · Darkness
movieFrankenstein's Creature
2018 · The Creature, Writer
movieSalt
2018 · Demon
movieDouble Date
2017 · Daddy
tvInside No. 9
2014 · The Curse
tvA Ghost Story for Christmas
1971 · The Mummy