John Swihart
Known For: Sound
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.
Filmography
2023
- The Other Zoey ... (Original Music Composer)
2020
- Dinner in America ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Violent Heart ... (Original Music Composer)
2019
- The Fanatic ... (Original Music Composer)
2018
- Haunting on Fraternity Row ... (Music)
- Ideal Home ... (Original Music Composer)
2017
- Table 19 ... (Original Music Composer)
2016
- First Girl I Loved ... (Original Music Composer)
2015
- Accidental Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- Staten Island Summer ... (Original Music Composer)
- Web Therapy ... (Original Music Composer)
2014
- The Young Kieslowski ... (Original Music Composer)
- As Night Comes ... (Music)
2013
- Odd Thomas ... (Original Music Composer)
- We Are Men ... (Music)
- The Goodwin Games ... (Original Music Composer)
2012
- For a Good Time, Call... ... (Original Music Composer)
2011
2010
- The Other Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Perfect Host ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This ... (Original Music Composer)
2009
- Accidentally on Purpose ... (Music)
- Spread ... (Original Music Composer)
- Youth in Revolt ... (Original Music Composer)
- New in Town ... (Original Music Composer)
- Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach ... (Original Music Composer)
- Finding Bliss ... (Music)
2008
- Garden Party ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Last Word ... (Original Music Composer)
- Just Add Water ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Year of Getting to Know Us ... (Original Music Composer)
2007
- Full of It ... (Music)
- The Brothers Solomon ... (Original Music Composer)
- One Last Dance ... (Music)
- The Education of Charlie Banks ... (Original Music Composer)
- Randy & the Mob ... (Original Music Composer)
2006
- Employee of the Month ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sasquatch Gang ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bye Bye Benjamin ... (Music)
- Out There ... (Music)
- On Location Napoleon Dynamite ... (Songs)
- Glazed ... (Music)
2005
- How I Met Your Mother ... (Original Music Composer)
- Our Very Own ... (Original Music Composer)
- Daltry Calhoun ... (Original Music Composer)
- Inheritance ... (Original Music Composer)
2004
- Napoleon Dynamite ... (Original Music Composer)
2002
- Bedford Springs ... (Music)