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Mark Snow (born Martin Fulterman, August 26, 1946, New York) is an American composer for film and television.
Born in New York, he grew up in Brooklyn, graduating from the High School of Music and Art (1964) and, afterwards, the Juilliard School of Music. He was a co-founder of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble.
Among his most famous compositions is the theme music for sci-fi television series The X-Files. The theme reached #2 in 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' worth.
He also composed the score for the television movie Dirty Pictures, the series Smallville and One Tree Hill. He has also composed music for video games, such as Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and Urban Assault (cutscene music only).
Snow has been nominated for 19 Emmy Awards and won 34 ASCAP awards. He was nominated for a César Award for his work on the film Coeurs directed by French director, Alain Resnais. Snow has also worked on Resnais's film Les Herbes folles.
His upcoming scores for 2011/2012 include: The Hunters, Vous n'avez encore rien vu (Alain Resnais next film), Just Like Her.
Themes for TV series
Snow composed main title themes for a number of popular TV shows (and some episode scores+):
Wonder Pets (2007)Ghost Whisperer (2005—2010) +The Lone Gunmen (all episodes; 2001) +Urban Assault (VG) (1998)La Femme Nikita (1997–2001)The Guardian (TV series) (2001-?)Millennium (all episodes; 1996–99) +Nowhere Man (1995) +The X-Files + (1993–2002)Hart to Hart (1979–84)The War Widow (1976)Snow stopped composing for Smallville; his final season was season seven, at which point from season eight onward Louis Febre—who had composed additional score on some of Snow's episodes previously—took over as composer.
Television Series and Television Movies (incomplete)
Soundtracks
Commercially released
Mark Snow has released the following soundtracks commercially:
Skateboard (1978) -- LP onlyThe X-Files: The Truth and the Light (Seasons 1–3) [1996]20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [1997]Disturbing Behavior [1998]The X-Files (film score) [1998]Crazy In Alabama [1999]The Snow Files (various) [1999]UFO: The Truth Is Here (rare CD) (2001)The Best of Millennium (Season 1–3) [2002] (iTunes exclusive)Helter Skelter [2004]Coeurs (A.K.A. Private Fears in Public Places) [2008]Millennium (Season 1–3; 2CD set, LaLaLand Records; SOLD OUT) [2008]The X-Files: I Want to Believe (film score) [2008]Jake Speed (BuySoundtrax Records; same contents, but remastered, as the old Varese Sarabande LP) [2009]Conundrum [2009]Smallville Score From The Complete Series Vol. 1 [2011] With Louis FebreHarsm Realm/The Lone Gunmen (selections from both shows, 1CD, limited, La La Land Records) [2010]The X-Files (selections from all seasons, 4CD set, limited, La La Land Records) [2011]Mark Snow released The X Files theme song as a single in March 1996 which reached number 2 in the UK charts.
Not commercially released
Other soundtracks unofficially or non-commercially available are:
Ernest Saves Christmas [1988] -- promotional CDConundrum (longer than the 2009 commercial release) -- internet leakMurder Between Friends (two versions) -- internet leakMillennium: Season 1 [1996] -- promotional CDThe X-Files: Jose Chung's From Outer Space [1996] -- internet leakThe X-Files Season 5: The Post-Modern Prometheus, Christmas Carol [1997] -- internet leakNight Sins (TV mini series)- [1997] - internet leakThe Dancing Cow [2000] -- official free internet download (website no longer up)Pearl Harbor II: Pearlmageddon [2001] -- official free internet download (website no longer up)Ghost Whisperer: Leap Of Faith [2009] -- Personally sent to a fan.Smallville Original Score TV Soundtrack [2001-2011]-- Even Without LaunchingPersonal life
Snow married Glynn Daly in 1967. They have three children. Glynn is the sister of actress Tyne Daly and actor Tim Daly.
