---
name: "John Swihart"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-swihart"
fi1m_id: "john-swihart"
imdb_id: "nm1067825"
tmdb_id: 41674
wikidata_id: "Q1701863"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-27T09:13:10.713374+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# John Swihart

## Identity

John Swihart

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-swihart
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-swihart
- **IMDb ID:** nm1067825
- **TMDB ID:** 41674
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1701863
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swihart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1701863, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1067825/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41674

Composer. Born 1 January 1964 in Mt. Kisco, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1964, Mt. Kisco, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2004–2010
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swihart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1701863, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1067825/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41674

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*How I Met Your Mother*](https://film.one/tv/how-i-met-your-mother.md) (74)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Napoleon Dynamite*](https://film.one/film/napoleon-dynamite.md) (74)

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## Biography

John Swihart is an American composer of film and television scores. He is known for his work on the films *Napoleon Dynamite* (2004), *Employee of the Month* (2006), *Youth in Revolt* (2009) and *Table 19* (2017), and the television series *How I Met Your Mother* (2005–2014).

Swihart was born in Mt Kisco, New York, and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1986. Before scoring films, he performed as a multi-instrumentalist in Blue Man Group shows in Boston, New York and Las Vegas.

His score for *Napoleon Dynamite*, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, earned him a Golden Satellite Award for Best Original Score in 2004 and a Grammy nomination in 2006 for the soundtrack album.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, johnswihart.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *How I Met Your Mother* (2005), Fi1m 74, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/tv/how-i-met-your-mother.md)
- *Napoleon Dynamite* (2004), Fi1m 74, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/napoleon-dynamite.md)

## Complete filmography (53)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Other Zoey* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *The Violent Heart* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *The Bay of Silence* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Dinner in America* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *The Fanatic* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Haunting on Fraternity Row* (2018), Music
- *Ideal Home* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Table 19* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *First Girl I Loved* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Web Therapy* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *Staten Island Summer* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Accidental Love* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *As Night Comes* (2014), Music
- *The Young Kieslowski* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *We Are Men* (2013), series, Music
- *The Goodwin Games* (2013), series, Original Music Composer
- *Odd Thomas* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *For a Good Time, Call...* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Flypaper* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Lucky* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Mad Love* (2011), series, Music
- *The Other Woman* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *The Perfect Host* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Accidentally on Purpose* (2009), series, Music
- *Youth in Revolt* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *New in Town* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Finding Bliss* (2009), Music
- *Spread* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Garden Party* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Word* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Just Add Water* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *The Year of Getting to Know Us* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Randy & the Mob* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *The Brothers Solomon* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *The Education of Charlie Banks* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Full of It* (2007), Music
- *One Last Dance* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Employee of the Month* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Out There* (2006), Music
- *Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Glazed* (2006), Music
- *On Location Napoleon Dynamite* (2006), as Songs
- *The Sasquatch Gang* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Bye Bye Benjamin* (2006), Music
- *Daltry Calhoun* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *How I Met Your Mother* (2005), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/how-i-met-your-mother.md)
- *Our Very Own* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Inheritance* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Napoleon Dynamite* (2004), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/napoleon-dynamite.md)
- *Purgatory House* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Bedford Springs* (2002), Music

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