Acting · York, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Born January 15, 1991
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.
MovieThe Fairy Moon
2025
as Syd
MovieThe Severed Sun
2025
as The Beast
MovieApartment 7A
2024
as Satan
MovieTarot
2024
as The Hermit / The Magician
MovieThe First Omen
2024
as Jackal Performer
MovieStopmotion
2024
as Ash Man
MovieA Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
2023
as The Mummy
MovieThe Dead of Winter
2023
as The Figure
MovieUnderground
2023
as Jedrek / Demon
MovieTo Fire You Come at Last
2023
as Ransley
MovieStop Dead
2022
as The Still Man
MovieWalking Against the Rain
2022
as The Forsaken
MovieThe Haunting of the Tower of London
2022
as Solomon
MovieDashcam
2022
as The Parasite
MovieThe Jack in the Box: Awakening
2022
as Jack
MovieWerewolf Castle
2022
as Councillor
MovieIrving Undead
2021
as Henry Irving
MovieBroadcast Signal Intrusion
2021
as Sal-E Sparx
MovieThe Banishing
2021
as Monk
MovieThe Thing That Ate the Birds
2021
as The Thing That Ate the Birds
MovieA Werewolf in England
2020
as Willie
MovieHost
2020
as The Spirit
MovieVampire Virus
2020
as Father
MovieA Little More Flesh
2020
as Stanley Durall
MovieBlack Mass
2019
as Darkness
MovieFrankenstein's Creature
2018
as The Creature
MovieSalt
2018
as Demon
MovieDouble Date
2017
as Daddy
TVInside No. 9
2014
as The Curse
TVA Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as The Mummy
