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
All Movies (28)
- The Fairy Moon2025 · as Syd
- The Severed Sun2025 · as The Beast
- Apartment 7A2024 · as Satan
- Tarot2024 · as The Hermit / The Magician
- The First Omen2024 · as Jackal Performer
- Stopmotion2024 · as Ash Man
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 2492023 · as The Mummy
- The Dead of Winter2023 · as The Figure
- Underground2023 · as Jedrek / Demon
- To Fire You Come at Last2023 · as Ransley
- Stop Dead2022 · as The Still Man
- Walking Against the Rain2022 · as The Forsaken
- The Haunting of the Tower of London2022 · as Solomon
- Dashcam2022 · as The Parasite
- The Jack in the Box: Awakening2022 · as Jack
- Werewolf Castle2022 · as Councillor
- Irving Undead2021 · as Henry Irving
- Broadcast Signal Intrusion2021 · as Sal-E Sparx
- The Banishing2021 · as Monk
- The Thing That Ate the Birds2021 · as The Thing That Ate the Birds
- A Werewolf in England2020 · as Willie
- Host2020 · as The Spirit
- Vampire Virus2020 · as Father
- A Little More Flesh2020 · as Stanley Durall
- Black Mass2019 · as Darkness
- Frankenstein's Creature2018 · as The Creature
- Salt2018 · as Demon
- Double Date2017 · as Daddy
All TV Shows (2)
- Inside No. 92014 · as The Curse
- A Ghost Story for Christmas1971 · as The Mummy