James Swanton
Biography
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.
Movie Appearances
Dashcam
as The Parasite
2022
Irving Undead
as Henry Irving
2021
Underground
as Jedrek / Demon
2023
To Fire You Come at Last
as Ransley
2023
The Dead of Winter
as The Figure
2023
Stopmotion
as Ash Man
2024
Stop Dead
as The Still Man
2022
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
as The Mummy
2023
The Severed Sun
as The Beast
2025
Tarot
as The Hermit / The Magician
2024
The First Omen
as Jackal Performer
2024
Salt
as Demon
2018
Frankenstein's Creature
as The Creature
2018
Black Mass
as Darkness
2019
A Little More Flesh
as Stanley Durall
2020
Vampire Virus
as Father
2020
Host
as The Spirit
2020
A Werewolf in England
as Willie
2020
The Banishing
as Monk
2021
Double Date
as Daddy
2017
