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