James Swanton
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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
Credits
The First Omen (2024)
as Jackal Performer
Tarot (2024)
as The Hermit / The Magician
Host (2020)
as The Spirit
Apartment 7A (2024)
as Satan
The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022)
as Jack
Stopmotion (2024)
as Ash Man
The Banishing (2021)
as Monk
Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)
as Sal-E Sparx
Vampire Virus (2020)
as Father
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 (2023)
as The Mummy
The Haunting of the Tower of London (2022)
as Solomon
Dashcam (2022)
as The Parasite
Black Mass (2019)
as Darkness
Double Date (2017)
as Daddy
A Werewolf in England (2020)
as Willie
Werewolf Castle (2022)
as Councillor
Walking Against the Rain (2022)
as The Forsaken
Underground (2023)
as Jedrek / Demon
The Severed Sun (2025)
as The Beast
Salt (2018)
as Demon
The Fairy Moon (2025)
as Syd
The Thing That Ate the Birds (2021)
as The Thing That Ate the Birds
A Little More Flesh (2020)
as Stanley Durall
The Dead of Winter (2023)
as The Figure
Stop Dead (2022)
as The Still Man
To Fire You Come at Last (2023)
as Ransley
Frankenstein's Creature (2018)
as The Creature
Irving Undead (2021)
as Henry Irving