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