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