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John Swihart

Composer, Additional Credits
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Odd Thomas
  • Employee of the Month
  • Spread
  • Dinner in America
  • The Fanatic
  • Ideal Home
  • Accidental Love
  • The Hammer
  • The Sasquatch Gang
  • Fear Itself
  • Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
  • The Turkey Bowl
  • Haunting on Fraternity Row
  • The Violent Heart
  • Hey Watch This
  • A Light Beneath Their Feet
  • Bedford Springs

John Swihart Filmography

2023
The Other Zoey · as Original Music Composer
2020
The Violent Heart · as Original Music Composer
2020
The Bay of Silence · as Composer
2020
Dinner in America · as Original Music Composer
2019
2019
The Fan Connection · as Composer
2019
The Fanatic · as Original Music Composer
2018
Ideal Home · as Original Music Composer
2018
American Woman (TV Series) · as Composer
2017
Angry Angel · as Composer
2017
Trial & Error (TV Series) · as Composer
2017
Table 19 · as Original Music Composer
2016
The Great Indoors (TV Series) · as Composer
2016
First Girl I Loved · as Original Music Composer
2015
2015
Staten Island Summer · as Original Music Composer
2015
Accidental Love · as Original Music Composer
2014
Cristela (TV Series) · as Composer
2014
Red Band Society (US) (TV Series) · as Composer
2014
The Young Kieslowski · as Original Music Composer
2013
Odd Thomas · as Original Music Composer
2013
The Goodwin Games (TV Series) · as Composer
2012
Love Sick Love · as Composer
2012
For a Good Time, Call... · as Original Music Composer
2012
Go On (TV Series) · as Composer
2012
Men at Work (TV Series) · as Composer
2011
How To Be a Gentleman (TV Series) · as Composer
2011
Flypaper · as Original Music Composer
2011
Pretty Tough (TV Series) · as Composer
2011
Web Therapy (2011) (TV Series) · as Composer
2011
Lucky · as Original Music Composer
2011
The Booth at the End (TV Series) · as Composer
2011
Losing Control · as Composer
2011
Switched at Birth (TV Series) · as Composer
2010
The Perfect Host · as Original Music Composer
2010
Hey Watch This · as Original Music Composer
2010
Sons of Tucson (TV Series) · as Composer
2009
The Other Woman · as Original Music Composer
2009
Splinterheads · as Composer
2009
Youth in Revolt · as Original Music Composer
2009
The Strip · as Composer
2009
Spread · as Original Music Composer
2009
Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach · as Original Music Composer
2009
New in Town · as Original Music Composer
2009
Operating Instructions · as Composer
2008
Web Therapy (TV Series) · as Composer
2008
Garden Party · as Original Music Composer
2008
HottieBoombaLottie · as Composer
2008
Fear Itself (TV Series) · as Composer
2008
The Last Word · as Original Music Composer
2008
Just Add Water · as Original Music Composer
2008
The Year of Getting to Know Us · as Original Music Composer
2007
South of Pico · as Composer
2007
Randy and the Mob · as Original Music Composer
2007
The Brothers Solomon · as Original Music Composer
2007
Greek (TV Series) · as Composer
2007
The Hammer · as Composer
2007
The Education of Charlie Banks · as Original Music Composer
2006
Employee of the Month · as Original Music Composer
2006
Shorty McShorts' Shorts (TV Series) · as Composer
2006
Getting High · as Composer
2006
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas · as Original Music Composer
2006
Think Tank · as Composer
2006
The Sasquatch Gang · as Original Music Composer
2006
Trick My Truck (TV Series) · as Composer
2005
Daltry Calhoun · as Original Music Composer
2005
How I Met Your Mother (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer
2005
Mall Cop · as Composer
2005
Nadine in Date Land · as Composer
2005
Our Very Own · as Original Music Composer
2005
2005
Life on the Ledge · as Composer
2004
Napoleon Dynamite · as Original Music Composer
2004
Purgatory House · as Composer
2003
Over the Moon · as Composer
2002
When Boys Fly · as Composer

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