Mark Snow passed away today at age 78 at his home in Connecticut. The composer, best known for his theme and score from the Fox mystery series The X-Files, wrote numerous scores for film and television over the last five decades. He earned six Emmy Award nominations for his music from The X-Files and received nine other Emmy nominations for the television movies Something About Amelia, The Last Capone, An American Story, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Helter Skelter, the miniseries Children of the Dust, as well as UPN’s Nowhere Man and CBS’ Ghost Whisperer. His other TV scoring credits include The WB’s Smallville & Birds of Prey, Fox’s Millennium, Harsh Realm & The Lone Gunmen and CBS’ Blue Bloods, which finished its series run last year. Among his feature scoring credits are both X-Files movies, Andrew Lane’s Jake Speed, John Cherry’s Ernest Saves Christmas, John Gray’s Born to Be Wild, Antonio Banderas’ Crazy in Alabama, David Nutter’s Disturbing Behavior and Josh Boone’s The New Mutants. News of Snow’s passing was reported by Variety.
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