James Swanton

James Swanton (34)

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.

On Movies

  • The Fairy Moon
  • The Severed Sun
  • Apartment 7A
  • Tarot
  • The First Omen
  • Stopmotion
  • A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
  • The Dead of Winter
  • Underground
  • To Fire You Come at Last
  • Stop Dead
  • Walking Against the Rain
  • The Haunting of the Tower of London
  • Dashcam
  • The Jack in the Box: Awakening
  • Werewolf Castle
  • Irving Undead
  • Broadcast Signal Intrusion
  • The Banishing
  • The Thing That Ate the Birds
  • Host
  • A Werewolf in England
  • Vampire Virus
  • A Little More Flesh
  • Black Mass
  • Frankenstein's Creature
  • Salt
  • Double Date

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