Born under a Full Moon to Nigel & Jennifer Payton during a cold, dark
winter in the 20th Century at St Paul's Hospital, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, James Payton was educated in the local area by rogues, vagabonds, bounders, cads, & the cinema.
He is perhaps best known for his performances as Frank Longbottom in 'Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix' (2007) & 'The Battle For The Ministry' at Universal Epic Universe Florida (2025), USO Hitler in Marvel's 'Captain America: The First Avenger' (2011), Carl Bradbury in 'Wednesday' (2025), Tony Blair in the Nick Moran directed film of Alan McGee's life, 'Creation Stories' (2021), the Sanitation Inspector in Luc Besson's 'DogMan' (2023) and as himself in Oliver Guy-Watkins award winning documentary, 'Who is James Payton?' (2024).
Further credits include Rian Johnson's 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' (2022), 'Wedding Season' (2022) for Disney+, 'The Diplomat' (2024), 'The Crown' (2023) for Netflix, & 'Silo' (2025) for AppleTV.
He cites Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, David Niven and Noël Coward as influences.
James continues to work in Film, Television and Commercials despite numerous attempts to stop him. He still lives in London, even though he should know better.
Young Sherlock(2026)as Lawson Jaggers
Ticket(2025)as Bennett
Supervoid(2025)as Wotan
The Guilted Age(2025)as The butler
Wednesday(2022)as Carl Bradbury
Little Deaths(2011)
Masters of the Air(2024)
Endeavour(2012)
The Midnight Sky(2020)
A Christmas Carol(2019)
Last Christmas(2019)
The Bounty Killer(2018)
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore(2022)
Sherlock Holmes(2009)
Survey No. 257(2008)
The End of Lois Lane(2012)
More Than Mostly Comedy Podcast(2013)as Self
Tony Slattery's Rambling Club(2024)as Self
Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle(2023)as Inspector Campbell
Who Is James Payton?(2021)as Self
Extreme Improv Xstreamed(2020)as Self
