Acting credits
31
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
James Swanton
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.3
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Movies: 28Series: 3Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 2215526
IMDb ID: nm8532023
Known for: Acting
Born: January 15, 1991
Age: 35
Place of birth: York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1971 - 2025
Years active: 55
Average TMDB rating: 5.93
Other jobs
Writer (2)
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with James Swanton.
5.0
The Fairy Moon
as Syd
2025 Movie
5.6
The Severed Sun
as The Beast
2025 Movie
6.1
Apartment 7A
as Satan
2024 Movie
6.4
Tarot
as The Hermit / The Magician
2024 Movie
6.8
The First Omen
as Jackal Performer
2024 Movie
6.2
Stopmotion
as Ash Man
2024 Movie
5.9
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
as The Mummy
2023 Movie
The Dead of Winter
as The Figure
2023 Movie
3.0
Underground
as Jedrek / Demon
2023 Movie
To Fire You Come at Last
as Ransley
2023 Movie
6.0
Stop Dead
as The Still Man
2022 Movie
4.0
Walking Against the Rain
as The Forsaken
2022 Movie
5.9
The Haunting of the Tower of London
as Solomon
2022 Movie
4.9
Dashcam
as The Parasite
2022 Movie
6.3
The Jack in the Box: Awakening
as Jack
2022 Movie
5.0
Werewolf Castle
as Councillor
2022 Movie
2.0
Irving Undead
as Henry Irving
2021 Movie
5.6
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
as Sal-E Sparx
2021 Movie
5.1
The Banishing
as Monk
2021 Movie
6.5
The Thing That Ate the Birds
as The Thing That Ate the Birds
2021 Movie
6.5
Host
as The Spirit
2020 Movie
5.7
A Werewolf in England
as Willie
2020 Movie
4.9
Vampire Virus
as Father
2020 Movie
4.0
A Little More Flesh
as Stanley Durall
2020 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with James Swanton.
