
Cast
James Swanton
Acting
Cast
James Swanton
Known for
Acting
Born
1991-01-15
From
York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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.

Tarot
as The Hermit / The Magician

The First Omen
as Jackal Performer

Host
as The Spirit

Apartment 7A
as Satan

The Jack in the Box: Awakening
as Jack

Stopmotion
as Ash Man

The Banishing
as Monk

The Severed Sun
as The Beast

Dashcam
as The Parasite

The Haunting of the Tower of London
as Solomon

Werewolf Castle
as Councillor

Broadcast Signal Intrusion
as Sal-E Sparx

Vampire Virus
as Father

Frankenstein's Creature
as The Creature

Walking Against the Rain
as The Forsaken

A Werewolf in England
as Willie

Salt
as Demon

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
as The Mummy

Double Date
as Daddy

Black Mass
as Darkness

To Fire You Come at Last
as Ransley

Stop Dead
as The Still Man

Underground
as Jedrek / Demon
The Dead of Winter
as The Figure

A Little More Flesh
as Stanley Durall

Irving Undead
as Henry Irving

The Thing That Ate the Birds
as The Thing That Ate the Birds

The Fairy Moon
as Syd