
James Swanton
Acting
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.

The Fairy Moon
Syd

The Severed Sun
The Beast

Apartment 7A
Satan

Tarot
The Hermit / The Magician

The First Omen
Jackal Performer

Stopmotion
Ash Man

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
The Mummy
The Dead of Winter
The Figure

Underground
Jedrek / Demon

To Fire You Come at Last
Ransley

Stop Dead
The Still Man

Walking Against the Rain
The Forsaken

The Haunting of the Tower of London
Solomon

Dashcam
The Parasite

The Jack in the Box: Awakening
Jack

Werewolf Castle
Councillor

Irving Undead
Henry Irving

Broadcast Signal Intrusion
Sal-E Sparx

The Banishing
Monk

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

Host
The Spirit

A Werewolf in England
Willie

Vampire Virus
Father

A Little More Flesh
Stanley Durall

Black Mass
Darkness

Frankenstein's Creature
The Creature

Salt
Demon

Double Date
Daddy







