James Swanton
Acting
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.
Born: January 15, 1991
Place of Birth: York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Syd
as The Beast
as Satan
as The Hermit / The Magician
as Jackal Performer
as Ash Man
as The Mummy
as The Figure
as Jedrek / Demon
as Ransley
as The Still Man
as The Forsaken
as Solomon
as The Parasite
as Councillor
as Henry Irving
as Sal-E Sparx
as Monk
as The Thing That Ate the Birds
as The Spirit
as Willie
as Father
as Stanley Durall
as Darkness
as The Creature
as Demon
as Daddy
as The Curse