James Swanton
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
Credits
- 2025 · The Fairy Moon as Syd
- 2025 · The Severed Sun as The Beast
- 2024 · Apartment 7A as Satan
- 2024 · Tarot as The Hermit / The Magician
- 2024 · The First Omen as Jackal Performer
- 2024 · Stopmotion as Ash Man
- 2023 · A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 as The Mummy
- 2023 · The Dead of Winter as The Figure
- 2023 · Underground as Jedrek / Demon
- 2023 · To Fire You Come at Last as Ransley
- 2022 · Stop Dead as The Still Man
- 2022 · Walking Against the Rain as The Forsaken
- 2022 · The Haunting of the Tower of London as Solomon
- 2022 · Dashcam as The Parasite
- 2022 · The Jack in the Box: Awakening as Jack
- 2022 · Werewolf Castle as Councillor
- 2021 · Irving Undead as Henry Irving
- 2021 · Broadcast Signal Intrusion as Sal-E Sparx
- 2021 · The Banishing as Monk
- 2021 · The Thing That Ate the Birds as The Thing That Ate the Birds
- 2020 · Host as The Spirit
- 2020 · A Werewolf in England as Willie
- 2020 · Vampire Virus as Father
- 2020 · A Little More Flesh as Stanley Durall
- 2019 · Black Mass as Darkness
- 2018 · Frankenstein's Creature as The Creature
- 2018 · Salt as Demon
- 2017 · Double Date as Daddy
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as The Curse