James Swanton

Known for ActingBorn 1991-01-15 (age 35)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Frankenstein's Creature

Inside No. 9

A Ghost Story for Christmas

The First Omen

Host

The Thing That Ate the Birds

Tarot

The Jack in the Box: Awakening

Stopmotion

Apartment 7A

Salt

The Severed Sun

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249

The Haunting of the Tower of London

A Werewolf in England

Broadcast Signal Intrusion

Double Date

The Banishing

Werewolf Castle

The Fairy Moon

Dashcam

Vampire Virus

Stop Dead

Walking Against the Rain

A Little More Flesh

Underground

Irving Undead

To Fire You Come at Last

The Dead of Winter

Black Mass