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
- Ideal Home ... (Original Music Composer)
- Haunting on Fraternity Row ... (Music)
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
- As Night Comes ... (Music)
- The Young Kieslowski ... (Original Music Composer)
2013
- Odd Thomas ... (Original Music Composer)
- We Are Men ... (Music)
2012
- For a Good Time, Call... ... (Original Music Composer)
2011
2010
- The Perfect Host ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Other Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This ... (Original Music Composer)
2009
- Spread ... (Original Music Composer)
- Finding Bliss ... (Music)
- Youth in Revolt ... (Original Music Composer)
- New in Town ... (Original Music Composer)
- Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach ... (Original Music Composer)
- Accidentally on Purpose ... (Music)
2008
- Garden Party ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Year of Getting to Know Us ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Last Word ... (Original Music Composer)
- Just Add Water ... (Original Music Composer)
2007
- One Last Dance ... (Music)
- The Education of Charlie Banks ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Brothers Solomon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Full of It ... (Music)
- Randy & the Mob ... (Original Music Composer)
2006
- Employee of the Month ... (Original Music Composer)
- Glazed ... (Music)
- Out There ... (Music)
- The Sasquatch Gang ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bye Bye Benjamin ... (Music)
- On Location Napoleon Dynamite ... (Songs)
- Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas ... (Original Music Composer)
2005
- How I Met Your Mother ... (Original Music Composer)
- Daltry Calhoun ... (Original Music Composer)
- Inheritance ... (Original Music Composer)
- Our Very Own ... (Original Music Composer)
2004
- Napoleon Dynamite ... (Original Music Composer)
2002
- Bedford Springs ... (Music)