
James Swanton
Acting
31
Acting Credits
1
Directed
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 In...
Known For
Filmography

The Severed Sun
2025
as The Beast

The Fairy Moon
2025
as Syd

Stopmotion
2024
as Ash Man

Tarot
2024
as The Hermit / The Magician

The First Omen
2024
as Jackal Performer

Apartment 7A
2024
as Satan

Underground
2023
as Jedrek / Demon

To Fire You Come at Last
2023
as Ransley
The Dead of Winter
2023
as The Figure

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
2023
as The Mummy

Dashcam
2022
as The Parasite

Stop Dead
2022
as The Still Man

Walking Against the Rain
2022
as The Forsaken

The Jack in the Box: Awakening
2022
as Jack

Werewolf Castle
2022
as Councillor

The Haunting of the Tower of London
2022
as Solomon

Irving Undead
2021
as Henry Irving

The Banishing
2021
as Monk

The Thing That Ate the Birds
2021
as The Thing That Ate the Birds

Broadcast Signal Intrusion
2021
as Sal-E Sparx

A Little More Flesh
2020
as Stanley Durall

Vampire Virus
2020
as Father

Host
2020
as The Spirit

A Werewolf in England
2020
as Willie

Black Mass
2019
as Darkness

Salt
2018
as Demon

Frankenstein's Creature
2018
as The Creature

Double Date
2017
as Daddy

Inside No. 9
2014
as The Curse

A Ghost Story for Christmas
2005
as The Mummy

A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as The Mummy