
James Swanton
Actor
Born: January 15, 1991 (35 years old)
Place of birth: York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography (20)
- Inside No. 9 (2014, ★ 8.1)
- A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971, ★ 7.4)
- Stopmotion (2024, ★ 6.2)
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 (2023, ★ 5.9)
- The Severed Sun (2025, ★ 6)
- Tarot (2024, ★ 6.4)
- The First Omen (2024, ★ 6.8)
- Salt (2018, ★ 6.1)
- Host (2020, ★ 6.5)
- The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022, ★ 6.2)
- The Haunting of the Tower of London (2022, ★ 5.9)
- Apartment 7A (2024, ★ 6.1)
- Dashcam (2022, ★ 4.9)
- Vampire Virus (2020, ★ 4.9)
- A Werewolf in England (2020, ★ 5.7)
- The Banishing (2021, ★ 5.2)
- Double Date (2017, ★ 5.4)
- Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021, ★ 5.6)
- Werewolf Castle (2022, ★ 5.1)
- Walking Against the Rain (2022, ★ 4)