James Swanton
Born: 1991-01-15 in York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2025
- The Severed Sun as The Beast
- The Fairy Moon as Syd
2024
- The First Omen as Jackal Performer
- Stopmotion as Ash Man
- Tarot as The Hermit / The Magician
- Apartment 7A as Satan
2023
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 as The Mummy
- Underground as Jedrek / Demon
- The Dead of Winter as The Figure
- To Fire You Come at Last as Ransley
2022
- Dashcam as The Parasite
- Werewolf Castle as Councillor
- The Jack in the Box: Awakening as Jack
- Stop Dead as The Still Man
- The Haunting of the Tower of London as Solomon
- Walking Against the Rain as The Forsaken
2021
- The Banishing as Monk
- Broadcast Signal Intrusion as Sal-E Sparx
- The Thing That Ate the Birds as The Thing That Ate the Birds
- Irving Undead as Henry Irving
2020
- Host as The Spirit
- A Werewolf in England as Willie
- Vampire Virus as Father
- A Little More Flesh as Stanley Durall
2019
- Black Mass as Darkness
2018
- Salt as Demon
- Frankenstein's Creature as The Creature
2017
- Double Date as Daddy
2014
- Inside No. 9 as The Curse
1971
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as The Mummy