
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.

The Fairy Moon
2025

The Severed Sun
2025

Apartment 7A
2024

Tarot
2024

The First Omen
2024

Stopmotion
2024

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
2023
The Dead of Winter
2023

Underground
2023

To Fire You Come at Last
2023

Stop Dead
2022

Walking Against the Rain
2022

The Haunting of the Tower of London
2022

Dashcam
2022

The Jack in the Box: Awakening
2022

Werewolf Castle
2022

Irving Undead
2021

Broadcast Signal Intrusion
2021

The Banishing
2021

The Thing That Ate the Birds
2021

Host
2020

A Werewolf in England
2020

Vampire Virus
2020

A Little More Flesh
2020

Black Mass
2019

Frankenstein's Creature
2018

Salt
2018

Double Date
2017