Acting
James Swanton
EN cinema · 28 credits
Born
15 January 1991 (age 35)
Birthplace
York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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
as The Beast
Stopmotion
as Ash Man
Tarot
as The Hermit / The Magician
The First Omen
as Jackal Performer
Apartment 7A
as Satan
Underground
as Jedrek / Demon
The Dead of Winter
as The Figure
Dashcam
as The Parasite
Stop Dead
as The Still Man
Walking Against the Rain
as The Forsaken
Werewolf Castle
as Councillor
Irving Undead
as Henry Irving, Writer, Director
The Banishing
as Monk
The Thing That Ate the Birds
as The Thing That Ate the Birds
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
as Sal-E Sparx
A Little More Flesh
as Stanley Durall
Vampire Virus
as Father
Host
as The Spirit
A Werewolf in England
as Willie
Black Mass
as Darkness
Salt
as Demon
Frankenstein's Creature
as The Creature, Writer
Double Date
as Daddy