James Swanton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 15, 1991
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
The Fairy Moon 2025
as Syd
The Severed Sun 2025
as The Beast
Apartment 7A 2024
as Satan
Tarot 2024
as The Hermit / The Magician
The First Omen 2024
as Jackal Performer
Stopmotion 2024
as Ash Man
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 2023
as The Mummy
The Dead of Winter 2023
as The Figure
Underground 2023
as Jedrek / Demon
To Fire You Come at Last 2023
as Ransley
Stop Dead 2022
as The Still Man
Walking Against the Rain 2022
as The Forsaken
The Haunting of the Tower of London 2022
as Solomon
Dashcam 2022
as The Parasite
The Jack in the Box: Awakening 2022
as Jack
Werewolf Castle 2022
as Councillor
Irving Undead 2021
as Henry Irving, Writer, Director
Broadcast Signal Intrusion 2021
as Sal-E Sparx
The Banishing 2021
as Monk
The Thing That Ate the Birds 2021
as The Thing That Ate the Birds
A Werewolf in England 2020
as Willie
Host 2020
as The Spirit
Vampire Virus 2020
as Father
A Little More Flesh 2020
as Stanley Durall
Black Mass 2019
as Darkness
Frankenstein's Creature 2018
as The Creature, Writer
Salt 2018
as Demon
Double Date 2017
as Daddy
Credits from TMDB.