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James Swanton

Acting · Born 1991-01-15 · 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.

Known for

Filmography

2025The Fairy MoonSyd
2025The Severed SunThe Beast
2024Apartment 7ASatan
2024TarotThe Hermit / The Magician
2024The First OmenJackal Performer
2024StopmotionAsh Man
2023A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249The Mummy
2023The Dead of WinterThe Figure
2023UndergroundJedrek / Demon
2023To Fire You Come at LastRansley
2022Stop DeadThe Still Man
2022Walking Against the RainThe Forsaken
2022The Haunting of the Tower of LondonSolomon
2022DashcamThe Parasite
2022The Jack in the Box: AwakeningJack
2022Werewolf CastleCouncillor
2021Irving UndeadHenry Irving
2021Broadcast Signal IntrusionSal-E Sparx
2021The BanishingMonk
2021The Thing That Ate the BirdsThe Thing That Ate the Birds
2020A Werewolf in EnglandWillie
2020HostThe Spirit
2020Vampire VirusFather
2020A Little More FleshStanley Durall
2019Black MassDarkness
2018Frankenstein's CreatureThe Creature
2018SaltDemon
2017Double DateDaddy
2014Inside No. 9The Curse
1971A Ghost Story for ChristmasThe Mummy

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