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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 15, 1991
Place of Birth
York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
James Swanton
0.3 Popularity
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
5.0
Syd
The Fairy Moon
2025
5.6
The Beast
The Severed Sun
2025
6.1
Satan
Apartment 7A
2024
6.4
The Hermit / The Magician
Tarot
2024
6.8
Jackal Performer
The First Omen
2024
6.2
Ash Man
Stopmotion
2024
5.8
The Mummy
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
2023
0.0
The Figure
The Dead of Winter
2023
3.0
Jedrek / Demon
Underground
2023
0.0
Ransley
To Fire You Come at Last
2023
Credits
The Fairy Moon
as Syd
2025
5.0
The Severed Sun
as The Beast
2025
5.6
Apartment 7A
as Satan
2024
6.1
Tarot
as The Hermit / The Magician
2024
6.4
The First Omen
as Jackal Performer
2024
6.8
Stopmotion
as Ash Man
2024
6.2
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
as The Mummy
2023
5.8
The Dead of Winter
as The Figure
2023
0.0
Underground
as Jedrek / Demon
2023
3.0
To Fire You Come at Last
as Ransley
2023
0.0
Stop Dead
as The Still Man
2022
6.0
Walking Against the Rain
as The Forsaken
2022
4.0
The Haunting of the Tower of London
as Solomon
2022
5.8
Dashcam
as The Parasite
2022
4.9
The Jack in the Box: Awakening
as Jack
2022
6.3
Werewolf Castle
as Councillor
2022
5.0
Irving Undead
as Henry Irving
2021
2.0
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
as Sal-E Sparx
2021
5.6
The Banishing
as Monk
2021
5.1
The Thing That Ate the Birds
as The Thing That Ate the Birds
2021
6.5
Host
as The Spirit
2020
6.5
A Werewolf in England
as Willie
2020
5.7
Vampire Virus
as Father
2020
4.9
A Little More Flesh
as Stanley Durall
2020
4.0
Black Mass
as Darkness
2019
0.0
Frankenstein's Creature
as The Creature
2018
8.3
Salt
as Demon
2018
6.2
Double Date
as Daddy
2017
5.5
Inside No. 9
as The Curse
2014
8.0
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as The Mummy
1971
7.4