- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- James Swanton is best known for playing otherworldly characters, including the Mummy in Lot No. 249 (2023), the Spirit in Host (2020) and the title role in Frankenstein's Creature (2018). As a stage actor, James has been closely associated with Dickens. He took his 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- 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".
- He contributed to Sight and Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll. His selections were All About Eve (1950), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Innocents (1961), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Oliver Twist (1948), On the Town (1949), Sunrise (1927), Vampyr (1932) and Vertigo (1958).
- Kim Newman chose him as his Cult Hero of the Month in the August 2021 edition of Empire.
- He is a recurring guest on The Evolution of Horror with Mike Muncer. Classic horror films they have discussed so far include The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Nosferatu (1922), Häxan (1922), Freaks (1932), Vampyr (1932), The Old Dark House (1932), King Kong (1933), The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), Village of the Damned (1960) and Theater of Blood (1973).
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