John Swihart

Age: N/A | From: Mt. Kisco, New York, USA

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Person Details

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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Mt. Kisco, New York, USA

Homepage: http://www.johnswihart.com

Movie Involvements: 44

TV Involvements: 5

Most Famous Work

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.

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2023	Original Music Composer	The Other Zoey 2023-10-19 Movie
2022	Original Music Composer	Dinner in America 2022-05-27 Movie
2020	Original Music Composer	The Violent Heart 2020-09-09 Movie
2019	Original Music Composer	The Fanatic 2019-08-30 Movie
2018	Music	Haunting on Fraternity Row 2018-11-02 Movie
2017	Original Music Composer	Table 19 2017-03-03 Movie
2016	Original Music Composer	First Girl I Loved 2016-10-18 Movie
2015	Original Music Composer	Web Therapy 2015-10-21 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Staten Island Summer 2015-06-30 Movie
	Music	The Imp of the Perverse 2015-06-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Accidental Love 2015-02-10 Movie
2014	Music	As Night Comes 2014-11-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Young Kieslowski 2014-06-14 Movie
2013	Music	We Are Men 2013-09-30 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Odd Thomas 2013-01-29 Movie
2012	Original Music Composer	For a Good Time, Call... 2012-08-31 Movie
2011	Original Music Composer	Flypaper 2011-08-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lucky 2011-07-15 Movie
	Music	Mad Love 2011-02-14 TV Show
2010	Original Music Composer	The Other Woman 2010-10-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Perfect Host 2010-07-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This 2010-04-20 Movie
2009	Music	Accidentally on Purpose 2009-09-21 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Youth in Revolt 2009-09-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	New in Town 2009-01-30 Movie
	Music	Finding Bliss 2009-01-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Spread 2009-01-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach 2009-01-13 Movie
2008	Original Music Composer	Garden Party 2008-07-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Last Word 2008-04-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Just Add Water 2008-03-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Year of Getting to Know Us 2008-01-24 Movie
2007	Original Music Composer	Randy & the Mob 2007-10-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Brothers Solomon 2007-09-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Education of Charlie Banks 2007-03-27 Movie
	Music	Full of It 2007-03-01 Movie
	Music	One Last Dance 2007-01-11 Movie
2006	Original Music Composer	Employee of the Month 2006-10-06 Movie
	Music	Out There 2006-06-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas 2006-06-02 Movie
	Music	Glazed 2006-05-26 Movie
	Songs	On Location Napoleon Dynamite 2006-05-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Sasquatch Gang 2006-03-08 Movie
	Music	Bye Bye Benjamin 2006-01-31 Movie
2005	Original Music Composer	Daltry Calhoun 2005-09-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	How I Met Your Mother 2005-09-19 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Our Very Own 2005-06-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Inheritance 2005-04-08 Movie
2004	Original Music Composer	Napoleon Dynamite 2004-06-11 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv