Mark Snow

Born: 1946-08-26 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died: 2025-07-04

Known For: Sound

Biography

Mark Snow (born Martin Fulterman; August 26, 1946 – July 4, 2025) was an American composer for film and television. Among his most famous compositions is the theme and incidental music for the science fiction television series The X-Files. The X Files instrumental was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where the series aired on BBC Two and BBC One in early 1996, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Snow also wrote the music for another Chris Carter series, Millennium, and the background music scores for both shows, a total of 12 seasons. Snow composed scores for notable television, including Hart to Hart, Starsky & Hutch (season 3), and Smallville.

Filmography

2020

The New Mutants ... (Original Music Composer)

2014

Life of Riley ... (Original Music Composer)

2012

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet ... (Original Music Composer)

2011

The Hunters ... (Original Music Composer)

2010

Blue Bloods ... (Original Music Composer)

2009

Wild Grass ... (Original Music Composer)

2004

Helter Skelter ... (Original Music Composer)
She's Too Young ... (Original Music Composer)
Paradise ... (Original Music Composer)

2003

One Tree Hill ... (Original Music Composer)
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear ... (Original Music Composer)
Critical Assembly ... (Music)

2001

Smallville ... (Music)
The Guardian ... (Music)
The Lone Gunmen ... (Original Music Composer)
For Love of Olivia ... (Music)

2000

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For ... (Original Music Composer)
Sole Survivor ... (Original Music Composer)
In the Name of the People ... (Original Music Composer)
Another Woman's Husband ... (Original Music Composer)
Dirty Pictures ... (Original Music Composer)
Code Name: Phoenix ... (Music)

1999

Crazy in Alabama ... (Original Music Composer)
A Memory in My Heart ... (Original Music Composer)
Stranger in My House ... (Music)
A Touch of Hope ... (Original Music Composer)

1998

The X-Files ... (Original Music Composer)
Disturbing Behavior ... (Original Music Composer)
Inside The X-Files ... (Music)
Mr. Murder ... (Original Music Composer)
The Day Lincoln Was Shot ... (Original Music Composer)
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future' as Self

1997

Perversions of Science ... (Music)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ... (Original Music Composer)
Night Sins ... (Original Music Composer)
Night Sins ... (Music)
Cloned ... (Original Music Composer)
The Perfect Mother ... (Music)
Blessed Assurance ... (Music)
Payback ... (Original Music Composer)

1996

Project: ALF ... (Original Music Composer)
In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers ... (Music)
Summer of Fear ... (Original Music Composer)
Special Report: Journey to Mars ... (Music)
Conundrum ... (Original Music Composer)
Forgotten Sins ... (Original Music Composer)
A Loss of Innocence ... (Music)

1995

Children of the Dust ... (Original Music Composer)
Born to Be Wild ... (Original Music Composer)
Down, Out and Dangerous ... (Music)
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice ... (Original Music Composer)
A Stranger in Town ... (Music)
Trial by Fire ... (Original Music Composer)
Texas Justice ... (Original Music Composer)
The Unspoken Truth ... (Original Music Composer)
Seduced and Betrayed ... (Music)
Mixed Blessings ... (Music)

1994

A Place for Annie ... (Music)
Caroline at Midnight ... (Original Music Composer)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All ... (Original Music Composer)
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter ... (Music)
Witness to the Execution ... (Music)
Heart of a Child ... (Original Music Composer)
Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy ... (Music)
The Substitute Wife ... (Original Music Composer)
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance ... (Music)
Moment of Truth: Caught in the Crossfire ... (Original Music Composer)
Shadows of Desire ... (Original Music Composer)
Playmaker ... (Original Music Composer)
Murder Between Friends ... (Original Music Composer)

1993

The X-Files ... (Music)
Father & Son: Dangerous Relations ... (Original Music Composer)
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story ... (Music)
In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco ... (Original Music Composer)
Telling Secrets ... (Original Music Composer)
The Man with Three Wives ... (Music)
Born Too Soon ... (Original Music Composer)
Precious Victims ... (Music)

1992

The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story ... (Music)
A Taste for Killing ... (Original Music Composer)
A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story ... (Music)
In the Line of Duty: Street War ... (Original Music Composer)
An American Story ... (Original Music Composer)
Highway Heartbreaker ... (Music)

1991

Dolly Dearest ... (Original Music Composer)
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw ... (Original Music Composer)
Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace ... (Original Music Composer)
Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story ... (Music)
The Marla Hanson Story ... (Original Music Composer)
In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas ... (Original Music Composer)
The Rape of Doctor Willis ... (Original Music Composer)
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd ... (Original Music Composer)
Living a Lie ... (Music)

1990

Child in the Night ... (Original Music Composer)
Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again ... (Original Music Composer)
Miracle Landing ... (Music)
In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing ... (Original Music Composer)
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 ... (Original Music Composer)
The Lost Capone ... (Original Music Composer)
The Little Kidnappers ... (Original Music Composer)
The Girl Who Came Between Them ... (Original Music Composer)
Follow Your Heart ... (Music)
Dead Reckoning ... (Original Music Composer)
Opposites Attract ... (Music)

1989

When He's Not a Stranger ... (Music)
Those She Left Behind ... (Original Music Composer)
Stuck with Each Other ... (Music)
Settle the Score ... (Music)

1988

Bluegrass ... (Original Music Composer)
Ernest Saves Christmas ... (Original Music Composer)
Disaster at Silo 7 ... (Original Music Composer)
Alone in the Neon Jungle ... (Original Music Composer)
The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick ... (Original Music Composer)
Scandal in a Small Town ... (Music)
The In Crowd ... (Music)
Goodbye, Miss 4th of July ... (Music)
Ladykillers ... (Original Music Composer)

1987

A Hobo's Christmas ... (Original Music Composer)
Murder by the Book ... (Original Music Composer)
The Saint in Manhattan ... (Original Music Composer)
Murder Ordained ... (Original Music Composer)
Pals ... (Music)
Warm Hearts, Cold Feet ... (Music)
Roman Holiday ... (Music)
Still Crazy Like a Fox ... (Original Music Composer)
Cracked Up ... (Music)

1986

Jake Speed ... (Original Music Composer)
Blood & Orchids ... (Original Music Composer)
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills ... (Original Music Composer)
News at Eleven ... (Original Music Composer)
The Deacon Street Deer ... (Music)
One Police Plaza ... (Original Music Composer)
One Terrific Guy ... (Music)
Acceptable Risks ... (Original Music Composer)

1985

California Girls ... (Original Music Composer)
I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later ... (Original Music Composer)
Not My Kid ... (Original Music Composer)
Challenge of a Lifetime ... (Music)
The Lady from Yesterday ... (Music)

1984

Crazy like a Fox ... (Original Music Composer)
Something About Amelia ... (Original Music Composer)
I Married a Centerfold ... (Original Music Composer)
The Pigs vs. The Freaks ... (Music)
Secrets of a Married Man ... (Music)
A Good Sport ... (Music)

1983

The Winter of Our Discontent ... (Original Music Composer)
Two Kinds of Love ... (Music)
Malibu ... (Music)
Packin' It In ... (Original Music Composer)

1982

T. J. Hooker ... (Original Music Composer)
Cagney & Lacey ... (Music)
Paper Dolls ... (Original Music Composer)
Games Mother Never Taught You ... (Music)

1981

Falcon Crest ... (Music)
Dynasty ... (Music)

1980

Angel City ... (Original Music Composer)
Casino ... (Original Music Composer)

1979

Hart to Hart ... (Music)
Brothers and Sisters ... (Music)
Hart to Hart ... (Music)
Something Short of Paradise ... (Original Music Composer)
The Return of Mod Squad ... (Music)

1978

Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus ... (Music)
Skateboard ... (Original Music Composer)
The Archie Situation Comedy Musical Variety Show ... (Music)
Overboard ... (Music)

1977

The Love Boat ... (Music)

1976

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble ... (Original Music Composer)
The War Widow ... (Music Director)