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.
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The Severed Sun | The Beast | 2025-05-16 |
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The Fairy Moon | Syd | 2025-07-27 |
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Tarot | The Hermit / The Magician | 2024-05-01 |
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The First Omen | Jackal Performer | 2024-04-03 |
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Stopmotion | Ash Man | 2024-02-22 |
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Apartment 7A | Satan | 2024-09-20 |
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To Fire You Come at Last | Ransley | 2023-07-02 |
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The Dead of Winter | The Figure | 2023-08-26 |
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Underground | Jedrek / Demon | 2023-07-28 |
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A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 | The Mummy | 2023-12-24 |
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Walking Against the Rain | The Forsaken | 2022-08-27 |
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The Haunting of the Tower of London | Solomon | 2022-06-27 |
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The Jack in the Box: Awakening | Jack | 2022-02-24 |
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Stop Dead | The Still Man | 2022-09-16 |
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Werewolf Castle | Councillor | 2022-01-31 |
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Dashcam | The Parasite | 2022-06-03 |
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The Banishing | Monk | 2021-04-29 |
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Broadcast Signal Intrusion | Sal-E Sparx | 2021-10-22 |
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The Thing That Ate the Birds | The Thing That Ate the Birds | 2021-03-10 |
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Irving Undead | Henry Irving | 2021-10-24 |
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A Little More Flesh | Stanley Durall | 2020-03-14 |
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Vampire Virus | Father | 2020-06-27 |
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Host | The Spirit | 2020-12-04 |
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A Werewolf in England | Willie | 2020-09-28 |
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Black Mass | Darkness | 2019-08-01 |
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Salt | Demon | 2018-08-26 |
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Frankenstein's Creature | The Creature | 2018-08-27 |
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Double Date | Daddy | 2017-06-30 |
