John Swihart

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

-

Place of Birth

Mt. Kisco, New York, USA

John Swihart

Biography

John Swihart (born 1964) is an American musical composer for film and television. Some of his best known scores include the films Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Employee of the Month (2006), Youth in Revolt (2009), and television shows How I Met Your Mother (2005 - 2014), and Go On (2012 - 2013). Swihart was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, the adopted son of a physicist based at Indiana University. He attended Berklee College of Music, in Boston, graduating in 1986. Prior to becoming a film and television composer, he performed in shows as a multi-instrumentalist for the Blue Man Group.

Production

2007

The Brothers Solomon

as Original Music Composer

2008

The Year of Getting to Know Us

as Original Music Composer

2006

Employee of the Month

as Original Music Composer

2009

New in Town

as Original Music Composer

2005

Inheritance

as Original Music Composer

2005

Daltry Calhoun

as Original Music Composer

2014

2009

2014

The Young Kieslowski

as Original Music Composer

2005

Our Very Own

as Original Music Composer

2006

Out There

as Music

2015

Staten Island Summer

as Original Music Composer

2009

Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach

as Original Music Composer

2008

Garden Party

as Original Music Composer

2012

For a Good Time, Call...

as Original Music Composer

2006

Glazed

as Music

2007

Full of It

as Music

2013

Odd Thomas

as Original Music Composer

2006

2007

Randy & the Mob

as Original Music Composer

2010

Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This

as Original Music Composer

2011

Flypaper

as Original Music Composer

2010

The Perfect Host

as Original Music Composer

2015

Accidental Love

as Original Music Composer

2023

The Other Zoey

as Original Music Composer

2017

Table 19

as Original Music Composer

2010

The Other Woman

as Original Music Composer

2004

Napoleon Dynamite

as Original Music Composer

2009

Youth in Revolt

as Original Music Composer

2008

The Last Word

as Original Music Composer

2009

Spread

as Original Music Composer

2008

Just Add Water

as Original Music Composer

2007

The Education of Charlie Banks

as Original Music Composer

2016

First Girl I Loved

as Original Music Composer

2006

The Sasquatch Gang

as Original Music Composer

2007

2019

The Fanatic

as Original Music Composer

2020

Dinner in America

as Original Music Composer

2020

The Violent Heart

as Original Music Composer

2006

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas

as Original Music Composer

2011

Lucky

as Original Music Composer

2018

Ideal Home

as Original Music Composer

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