
James Swanton
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.
Known for

Inside No. 9
2014

Tarot
2024

The First Omen
2024

Host
2020

Apartment 7A
2024

A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971

The Jack in the Box: Awakening
2022

Vampire Virus
2020

Stopmotion
2024

The Banishing
2021

Broadcast Signal Intrusion
2021

Dashcam
2022

Double Date
2017

The Haunting of the Tower of London
2022

A Werewolf in England
2020

Werewolf Castle
2022

Black Mass
2019

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
2023

Salt
2018

Underground
2023

The Severed Sun
2025

A Little More Flesh
2020

The Fairy Moon
2025

The Thing That Ate the Birds
2021