James Swanton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 15, 1991 (age 35)
- Birthplace
- York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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
The Severed Sun
Movie · as The Beast
The Fairy Moon
Movie · as Syd
Stopmotion
Movie · as Ash Man
Tarot
Movie · as The Hermit / The Magician
The First Omen
Movie · as Jackal Performer
Apartment 7A
Movie · as Satan
Underground
Movie · as Jedrek / Demon
To Fire You Come at Last
Movie · as Ransley
The Dead of Winter
Movie · as The Figure
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
Movie · as The Mummy
Dashcam
Movie · as The Parasite
Stop Dead
Movie · as The Still Man
Walking Against the Rain
Movie · as The Forsaken
The Jack in the Box: Awakening
Movie · as Jack
Werewolf Castle
Movie · as Councillor
The Haunting of the Tower of London
Movie · as Solomon
Irving Undead
Movie · as Henry Irving
The Banishing
Movie · as Monk
The Thing That Ate the Birds
Movie · as The Thing That Ate the Birds
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
Movie · as Sal-E Sparx
A Little More Flesh
Movie · as Stanley Durall
Vampire Virus
Movie · as Father
Host
Movie · as The Spirit
A Werewolf in England
Movie · as Willie
Black Mass
Movie · as Darkness
Salt
Movie · as Demon
Frankenstein's Creature
Movie · as The Creature
Double Date
Movie · as Daddy
Inside No. 9
TV · as The Curse · 1 ep
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV · as The Mummy · 1 ep