James Swanton
Acting
Born: 1991-01-15 in York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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
Tarot
The Hermit / The Magician
The First Omen
Jackal Performer
Host
The Spirit
Apartment 7A
Satan
The Jack in the Box: Awakening
Jack
Inside No. 9
The Curse
Stopmotion
Ash Man
The Banishing
Monk
Dashcam
The Parasite
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
Sal-E Sparx
A Werewolf in England
Willie
Double Date
Daddy
Werewolf Castle
Councillor
The Haunting of the Tower of London
Solomon
Vampire Virus
Father
The Severed Sun
The Beast
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
The Mummy
Salt
Demon
Walking Against the Rain
The Forsaken
A Ghost Story for Christmas
The Mummy
The Thing That Ate the Birds
The Thing That Ate the Birds
Frankenstein's Creature
The Creature
A Little More Flesh
Stanley Durall
Underground
Jedrek / Demon
Stop Dead
The Still Man
Irving Undead
Henry Irving
The Dead of Winter
The Figure
The Fairy Moon
Syd
To Fire You Come at Last
Ransley
Black Mass
Darkness