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James Swanton

Acting · Born January 15, 1991 · York, North Yorkshire, England, UK

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.

James Swanton movies and shows

  • Inside No. 92014
  • A Ghost Story for Christmas1971
  • The First Omen2024
  • Tarot2024
  • Host2020
  • Apartment 7A2024
  • The Jack in the Box: Awakening2022
  • The Banishing2021
  • A Werewolf in England2020
  • Stopmotion2024
  • Broadcast Signal Intrusion2021
  • The Haunting of the Tower of London2022
  • Double Date2017
  • Vampire Virus2020
  • A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 2492023
  • Dashcam2022
  • The Severed Sun2025
  • Werewolf Castle2022
  • To Fire You Come at Last2023
  • Walking Against the Rain2022
  • A Little More Flesh2020
  • Salt2018
  • The Dead of Winter2023
  • The Thing That Ate the Birds2021