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