James Swanton
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 (30 titles)
5.0MovieThe Fairy Moon
Syd · 2025
6.1MovieThe Severed Sun
The Beast · 2025
6.1MovieApartment 7A
Satan · 2024
6.4MovieTarot
The Hermit / The Magician · 2024
6.8MovieThe First Omen
Jackal Performer · 2024
6.1MovieStopmotion
Ash Man · 2024
5.9MovieA Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
The Mummy · 2023
6.0MovieThe Dead of Winter
The Figure · 2023
3.0MovieUnderground
Jedrek / Demon · 2023
MovieTo Fire You Come at Last
Ransley · 2023
4.5MovieStop Dead
The Still Man · 2022
4.0MovieWalking Against the Rain
The Forsaken · 2022
5.9MovieThe Haunting of the Tower of London
Solomon · 2022
4.9MovieDashcam
The Parasite · 2022
6.2MovieThe Jack in the Box: Awakening
Jack · 2022
5.1MovieWerewolf Castle
Councillor · 2022
2.0MovieIrving Undead
Henry Irving · 2021
5.5MovieBroadcast Signal Intrusion
Sal-E Sparx · 2021
5.2MovieThe Banishing
Monk · 2021
6.5MovieThe Thing That Ate the Birds
The Thing That Ate the Birds · 2021
5.7MovieA Werewolf in England
Willie · 2020
6.6MovieHost
The Spirit · 2020
4.9MovieVampire Virus
Father · 2020
4.0MovieA Little More Flesh
Stanley Durall · 2020
MovieBlack Mass
Darkness · 2019
8.3MovieFrankenstein's Creature
The Creature · 2018
6.1MovieSalt
Demon · 2018
5.4MovieDouble Date
Daddy · 2017
8.1ShowInside No. 9
The Curse · 2014
7.4ShowA Ghost Story for Christmas
The Mummy · 1971