James Swanton

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James Swanton

Acting 35 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 appear…

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Tarot

Tarot

6.3 2024 Movie
The First Omen

The First Omen

6.8 2024 Movie
Host

Host

6.6 2020 Movie
Inside No. 9

Inside No. 9

8.1 2014 TV Show
Apartment 7A

Apartment 7A

6.1 2024 Movie
The Jack in the Box: Awakening

The Jack in the Box: Awakening

6.2 2022 Movie
Stopmotion

Stopmotion

6.1 2024 Movie
The Banishing

The Banishing

5.1 2021 Movie
Dashcam

Dashcam

4.9 2022 Movie
Broadcast Signal Intrusion

Broadcast Signal Intrusion

5.5 2021 Movie
A Werewolf in England

A Werewolf in England

5.7 2020 Movie
Double Date

Double Date

5.4 2017 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    The Fairy Moon

    Movie Syd

  2. 2025
    The Severed Sun

    Movie The Beast

  3. 2024
    Apartment 7A

    Movie Satan

  4. 2024
    Tarot

    Movie The Hermit / The Magician

  5. 2024
    The First Omen

    Movie Jackal Performer

  6. 2024
    Stopmotion

    Movie Ash Man

  7. 2023
    A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249

    Movie The Mummy

  8. 2023
    The Dead of Winter

    Movie The Figure

  9. 2023
    Underground

    Movie Jedrek / Demon

  10. 2023
    To Fire You Come at Last

    Movie Ransley

  11. 2022
    Stop Dead

    Movie The Still Man

  12. 2022
    Walking Against the Rain

    Movie The Forsaken

  13. 2022
    The Haunting of the Tower of London

    Movie Solomon

  14. 2022
    Dashcam

    Movie The Parasite

  15. 2022
    The Jack in the Box: Awakening

    Movie Jack

  16. 2022
    Werewolf Castle

    Movie Councillor

More credits
  1. 2021
    Irving Undead

    Movie Henry Irving

  2. 2021
    Broadcast Signal Intrusion

    Movie Sal-E Sparx

  3. 2021
    The Banishing

    Movie Monk

  4. 2021
    The Thing That Ate the Birds

    Movie The Thing That Ate the Birds

  5. 2020
    A Werewolf in England

    Movie Willie

  6. 2020
    Host

    Movie The Spirit

  7. 2020
    Vampire Virus

    Movie Father

  8. 2020
    A Little More Flesh

    Movie Stanley Durall

  9. 2019
    Black Mass

    Movie Darkness

  10. 2018
    Frankenstein's Creature

    Movie The Creature

  11. 2018
    Salt

    Movie Demon

  12. 2017
    Double Date

    Movie Daddy

  13. 2014
    Inside No. 9

    TV show The Curse

  14. 1971
    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    TV show The Mummy