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James Swanton

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.

On screen

  • The Severed Sun
  • The Fairy Moon
  • Stopmotion
  • Tarot
  • The First Omen
  • Apartment 7A
  • Underground
  • To Fire You Come at Last
  • The Dead of Winter
  • A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
  • Dashcam
  • Stop Dead
  • Walking Against the Rain
  • The Jack in the Box: Awakening
  • Werewolf Castle
  • The Haunting of the Tower of London
  • Irving Undead
  • The Banishing
  • The Thing That Ate the Birds
  • Broadcast Signal Intrusion
  • A Little More Flesh
  • Vampire Virus
  • Host
  • A Werewolf in England
  • Black Mass
  • Salt
  • Frankenstein's Creature
  • Double Date

Behind the camera

  • Irving Undead
  • Frankenstein's Creature

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