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 |