Tony Swatton

Tony Swatton is a British-American blacksmith and gemcutter from Hammersmith, London, England. He is best known for creating props for films and television programmes. He was also the host of the popular webseries, Man at Arms.

Biography Swatton is a self-educated blacksmith and a trained jeweller.

When he was 17, Swatton attended a renaissance fair where he observed another blacksmith making armour. Swatton then made copies of the blacksmith's equipment and used them to make his own helmet. When he was 26, he opened his first shop in North Hollywood called Sword and Stone where he sold products to Euro Disney and Michael Jackson. In 1991, he was employed to do his first film work on Hook. Between 1994 and 1998, Samson worked in Swatton's shop. and Wolverine's claws from X-Men. The last episode featuring the creations of Tony aired in June 2014.

Beginning in April 2015, Swatton has starred in Blizzard Entertainment's intermittent Azeroth Armory webseries, in which he forges iconic weapons from the Warcraft video game series, with episodes typically released as part of the marketing push for new World of Warcraft expansions.

Personal Swatton has a fiancée. Swatton was once a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism but left after other members wouldn't acknowledge hits on them from Swatton in mock battles, which led to him having to use force which caused Swatton to leave because he said he didn't want to be a bully.

Film credits Swatton has been credited and even gone uncredited in many films and TV shows for his contribution to the props departments, making weapons or armour for them, some of the credited performances that he has been given are as follows:

Year Title Credit 2020 Prop Culture himself, episode: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" 2012 The Hunger Games weapons: props – uncredited 2011 Thor props 2011 Sucker Punch weapons 2010 Alice in Wonderland sword maker – uncredited 2007 Beowulf weapons 2007 Epic Movie weapon fabricator 2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sword maker 2005 Into the Blue sword maker 2005 The Legend of Zorro sword maker 2004 Hellboy sword maker 2004 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed armorer 2004 Spider-Man 2 knife maker 2004 Blade: Trinity armorer 2004 Van Helsing armorer 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl sword maker 2003 The Last Samurai sword maker 2003 The Matrix Reloaded sword maker 2003 Jeepers Creepers 2 armourer 2003 Holes knife maker 2002 The Ring jeweller 2002 Spider-Man sword maker 2002 Men in Black 2 sword maker – uncredited 2001 Ocean's Eleven jeweller – uncredited 2001 Rush Hour 2 sword maker 2000 The Patriot sword maker 2000 Rules of Engagement knife maker 1999 Angel weapons 1998 Blade sword maker – uncredited 1997 Spawn armourer 1997 Buffy the Vampire Slayer weapons 1997 Face/Off knife maker 1996 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series) sword maker 1996 The Crow: City of Angels knife maker 1996 The Cable Guy armourer – uncredited 1995 Casper armourer 1994 The shadow helmet maker 1993 Hot Shots! Part Deux sword maker 1991 Hook sword maker – uncredited