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.
28 movies · 2 shows
The Fairy Moon
2025·5.0
The Severed Sun
2025·6.1
Apartment 7A
2024·6.1
Tarot
2024·6.3
The First Omen
2024·6.8
Stopmotion
2024·6.1
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
2023·5.9
The Dead of Winter
2023·6.0
Underground
2023·3.0
To Fire You Come at Last
2023·0.0
Stop Dead
2022·4.5
Walking Against the Rain
2022·4.0
The Haunting of the Tower of London
2022·5.9
Dashcam
2022·4.9
The Jack in the Box: Awakening
2022·6.2
Werewolf Castle
2022·5.1
Irving Undead
2021·2.0
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
2021·5.5
The Banishing
2021·5.1
The Thing That Ate the Birds
2021·6.5
A Werewolf in England
2020·5.7
Host
2020·6.6
Vampire Virus
2020·4.9
A Little More Flesh
2020·4.0
Black Mass
2019·0.0
Frankenstein's Creature
2018·8.3
Salt
2018·6.1
Double Date
2017·5.4