James Swanton

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
January 15, 1991

Place of Birth:
York, North Yorkshire, England, UK

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James Swanton

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.

Known For

Filmography

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