
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.

Inside No. 9
TV • 2014

A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV • 1971

Tarot
MOVIE • 2024

Host
MOVIE • 2020

The First Omen
MOVIE • 2024

Apartment 7A
MOVIE • 2024

Stopmotion
MOVIE • 2024

Vampire Virus
MOVIE • 2020

The Banishing
MOVIE • 2021

Underground
MOVIE • 2023

Double Date
MOVIE • 2017

Salt
MOVIE • 2018

Dashcam
MOVIE • 2022

The Jack in the Box: Awakening
MOVIE • 2022

The Haunting of the Tower of London
MOVIE • 2022

The Severed Sun
MOVIE • 2025

A Werewolf in England
MOVIE • 2020

The Thing That Ate the Birds
MOVIE • 2021