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James Swanton

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James Swanton
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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.
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      • 2 nominations total

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    Apartment 7A (2024)
    Apartment 7A
    5.9
    • Satan
    • 2024
    Tarot (2024)
    Tarot
    4.8
    • The Hermit
    • The Magician
    • 2024
    Stopmotion (2023)
    Stopmotion
    5.6
    • Ash Man
    • 2023
    Host (2020)
    Host
    6.5
    • The Spirit
    • 2020

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    • The Fairy Moon
      • Syd
      • Completed
      • Short
      • 2025
    • Ghosts
      • James
      • Post-production
      • Video Game
      • 2025
    • Inside Dolly Lane
      • Smithy
      • In Production



    • Apartment 7A (2024)
      Apartment 7A
      5.9
      • Satan
      • 2024
    • Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in Inside No. 9 (2014)
      Inside No. 9
      8.5
      TV Series
      • The Curse
      • 2024
    • Tarot (2024)
      Tarot
      4.8
      • The Hermit
      • The Magician
      • 2024
    • The First Omen (2024)
      The First Omen
      6.5
      • Jackal Performer
      • 2024
    • The Severed Sun (2024)
      The Severed Sun
      6.5
      • The Beast
      • 2024
    • A Ghost Story for Christmas (2005)
      A Ghost Story for Christmas
      6.9
      TV Series
      • The Mummy
      • 2023
    • Stop Dead (2023)
      Stop Dead
      6.2
      Short
      • The Still Man
      • 2023
    • Stopmotion (2023)
      Stopmotion
      5.6
      • Ash Man
      • 2023
    • The Dead of Winter (2023)
      The Dead of Winter
      Short
      • The Figure
      • 2023
    • Maaike Tol, Charlotte Dawn Potter, Nadia Dawber, Sapphire Brewer-Marchant, Lars Janssen, Andrew T Hislop, and Caitlyn Barber in Underground (2023)
      Underground
      3.6
      • Jedrek
      • Demon
      • 2023
    • The Haunted Season (2023)
      The Haunted Season
      5.1
      TV Series
      • Ransley
      • 2023
    • James Swanton in The Haunted Man (2022)
      The Haunted Man
      • Storyteller
      • 2022
    • Walking Against the Rain (2022)
      Walking Against the Rain
      4.7
      • The Forsaken Creatures
      • 2022
    • The Haunting of the Tower of London (2022)
      The Haunting of the Tower of London
      3.6
      • Solomon the Torturer
      • 2022
    • James Swanton in The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022)
      The Jack in the Box: Awakening
      4.4
      • The Jack
      • 2022

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    • James Swanton in The Haunted Man (2022)
      The Haunted Man
      • adapted by
      • 2022
    • Frankenstein's Creature (2018)
      Frankenstein's Creature
      6.1
      • written by
      • 2018

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    • James Swanton in The Haunted Man (2022)
      The Haunted Man
      • Director
      • 2022

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      • 6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
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      He performed his one-man play "Sikes & Nancy" at the Trafalgar Studios on London's West End.

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      He won Outstanding Performing Artist in the 2018 York Culture Awards for three horror roles: Count Dracula in "Dracula", the Creature in Frankenstein's Creature (2018) and Lucifer in "The York Mystery Plays".

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