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.
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Full filmography
- Inside No. 9 (2014) as The Curse
- Tarot (2024) as The Hermit / The Magician
- A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971) as The Mummy
- The First Omen (2024) as Jackal Performer
- Host (2020) as The Spirit
- Apartment 7A (2024) as Satan
- The Banishing (2021) as Monk
- Stopmotion (2024) as Ash Man
- The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022) as Jack
- Double Date (2017) as Daddy
- A Werewolf in England (2020) as Willie
- The Dead of Winter (2023) as The Figure
- Werewolf Castle (2022) as Councillor
- The Severed Sun (2025) as The Beast
- Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021) as Sal-E Sparx
- The Haunting of the Tower of London (2022) as Solomon
- Dashcam (2022) as The Parasite
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 (2023) as The Mummy
- Underground (2023) as Jedrek / Demon
- Salt (2018) as Demon
- Vampire Virus (2020) as Father
- Walking Against the Rain (2022) as The Forsaken
- Stop Dead (2022) as The Still Man
- The Fairy Moon (2025) as Syd