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