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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.
As actor
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
The Jack in the Box: Awakening
Walking Against the Rain
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