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