
James Swanton
Acting
1991-01-15 · 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.
movieThe Fairy Moon
as Syd · 2025 · 5.0
movieThe Severed Sun
as The Beast · 2025 · 6.1
movieApartment 7A
as Satan · 2024 · 6.1
movieTarot
as The Hermit / The Magician · 2024 · 6.4
movieThe First Omen
as Jackal Performer · 2024 · 6.8
movieStopmotion
as Ash Man · 2024 · 6.2
movieA Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
as The Mummy · 2023 · 5.9
The Dead of Winter
as The Figure · 2023 · 0.0
movieUnderground
as Jedrek / Demon · 2023 · 3.0
movieTo Fire You Come at Last
as Ransley · 2023 · 0.0
movieStop Dead
as The Still Man · 2022 · 4.5
movieWalking Against the Rain
as The Forsaken · 2022 · 4.0
movieThe Haunting of the Tower of London
as Solomon · 2022 · 5.9
movieDashcam
as The Parasite · 2022 · 4.9
movieThe Jack in the Box: Awakening
as Jack · 2022 · 6.3
movieWerewolf Castle
as Councillor · 2022 · 5.1
movieIrving Undead
as Henry Irving · 2021 · 2.0
movieBroadcast Signal Intrusion
as Sal-E Sparx · 2021 · 5.6
movieThe Banishing
as Monk · 2021 · 5.2
movieThe Thing That Ate the Birds
as The Thing That Ate the Birds · 2021 · 6.5
movieA Werewolf in England
as Willie · 2020 · 5.7
movieHost
as The Spirit · 2020 · 6.6
movieVampire Virus
as Father · 2020 · 4.9
movieA Little More Flesh
as Stanley Durall · 2020 · 4.0