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.
Known For
Prominent works featuring James Swanton
Tarot
The First Omen
Host
Apartment 7A
Inside No. 9
The Jack in the Box: Awakening
Stopmotion
The Banishing
Dashcam
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (33 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The Fairy Moon | Syd | Movie | 2025 |
 | The Severed Sun | The Beast | Movie | 2025 |
 | Apartment 7A | Satan | Movie | 2024 |
 | Tarot | The Hermit / The Magician | Movie | 2024 |
 | The First Omen | Jackal Performer | Movie | 2024 |
 | Stopmotion | Ash Man | Movie | 2024 |
 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 | The Mummy | Movie | 2023 |
 | The Dead of Winter | The Figure | Movie | 2023 |
 | Underground | Jedrek / Demon | Movie | 2023 |
 | To Fire You Come at Last | Ransley | Movie | 2023 |
 | Stop Dead | The Still Man | Movie | 2022 |
 | Walking Against the Rain | The Forsaken | Movie | 2022 |
 | The Haunting of the Tower of London | Solomon | Movie | 2022 |
 | Dashcam | The Parasite | Movie | 2022 |
 | The Jack in the Box: Awakening | Jack | Movie | 2022 |
 | Werewolf Castle | Councillor | Movie | 2022 |
 | Irving Undead | Henry Irving | Movie | 2021 |
| Irving Undead | Director | Movie | 2021 |
| Irving Undead | Writer | Movie | 2021 |
 | Broadcast Signal Intrusion | Sal-E Sparx | Movie | 2021 |
 | The Banishing | Monk | Movie | 2021 |
 | The Thing That Ate the Birds | The Thing That Ate the Birds | Movie | 2021 |
 | A Werewolf in England | Willie | Movie | 2020 |
 | Host | The Spirit | Movie | 2020 |
 | Vampire Virus | Father | Movie | 2020 |
 | A Little More Flesh | Stanley Durall | Movie | 2020 |
 | Black Mass | Darkness | Movie | 2019 |
 | Frankenstein's Creature | The Creature | Movie | 2018 |
| Frankenstein's Creature | Writer | Movie | 2018 |
 | Salt | Demon | Movie | 2018 |
 | Double Date | Daddy | Movie | 2017 |
 | Inside No. 9 | The Curse | TV Series | 2014 |
 | A Ghost Story for Christmas | The Mummy | TV Series | 1971 |