James Swanton
Acting
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.
Filmography 30
Movies (28)
The Fairy Moon2025Syd
The Severed Sun2025The Beast
Apartment 7A2024Satan
Tarot2024The Hermit / The Magician
The First Omen2024Jackal Performer
Stopmotion2024Ash Man
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 2492023The Mummy
The Dead of Winter2023The Figure
Underground2023Jedrek / Demon
To Fire You Come at Last2023Ransley
Stop Dead2022The Still Man
Walking Against the Rain2022The Forsaken
The Haunting of the Tower of London2022Solomon
Dashcam2022The Parasite
The Jack in the Box: Awakening2022Jack
Werewolf Castle2022Councillor
Irving Undead2021Henry Irving
Broadcast Signal Intrusion2021Sal-E Sparx
The Banishing2021Monk
The Thing That Ate the Birds2021The Thing That Ate the Birds
A Werewolf in England2020Willie
Host2020The Spirit
Vampire Virus2020Father
A Little More Flesh2020Stanley Durall
Black Mass2019Darkness
Frankenstein's Creature2018The Creature
Salt2018Demon
Double Date2017Daddy
Shows (2)
Inside No. 92014The Curse
A Ghost Story for Christmas1971The Mummy