Mark Snow

Mark Snow
Born	Martin Fulterman August 26, 1946 (1946-08-26) (age 65) New York City
Spouse	Glynn Daly (1967— ) 3 children

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 Giants: Citizen Kabuto, as well as the music for the computer game Urban Assault.

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.

Themes for TV series

Snow composed main title themes for a number of popular TV shows (and some episode scores+):

• Blue Bloods (2010)
• Wonder Pets (2007)
• Ghost Whisperer (2005—2010)
• The Lone Gunmen (2001)
• Urban Assault (VG) (1998)
• La Femme Nikita (1997–2001)
• The Guardian (TV series) (2001-?)
• Millennium (1996–99)
• Nowhere Man (1995)
• The X-Files^[1] (1993–2002)
• T.J. Hooker (1982–86)
• Hart to Hart (1979–84)
• Starsky & Hutch (third season only, 1977–78)
• 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)

Year	Title	Info	On CD?
1979	240-Robert	Incomplete episodes: "Double Trouble" (season 1) "Earthquake" (season 1) "A Cool Welcome" (season 2) "First Loss" (season 2) "Hostages" (season 2)	NO
1979	Brothers and Sisters	Incomplete episodes: "Pilot" "High Time" "Man in Chains" "Mirror Image" "Made in Japan" "A Wrenching Problem" "Lucky Me" "Love and Marriage" "Spring Vacation" "Save the Monkey" "Main Event" "Truth or Consequences"	NO
1983	Lottery!	Incomplete episodes: "Los Angeles: Bigger Volume" "Denver: Following Through" "Portland: Treasure Hunt" "Minneapolis: Six Months Down"	NO
1987	Overboard	TV movie.	NO
1991	All Together Now	Incomplete episodes: "Daddy Cool" (pilot)	NO

Soundtracks

Commercially released

Mark Snow has released the following soundtracks commercially:

• Skateboard (1978) -- LP only
• The 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) [2008]
• The X-Files: I Want to Believe (film score) [2008]
• Jake Speed (BuySoundtrax Records) [2009]
• Conundrum [2009]
• Smallville Score From The Complete Series Vol. 1 [2011] With Louis Febre

Mark Snow released The X Files theme song as a single in March 1996 which reached number 2 in the UK charts.

A 4 CD X-Files box set comprising music from all seasons is being released May 10, 2011 by Lalaland Records. The scores for Harsh Realm and The Lone Gunmen are already available in limited edition releases.

Not commercially released

Other soundtracks unofficially or non-commercially available are:

• Ernest Saves Christmas [1988] -- promotional CD
• Conundrum (longer than the 2009 commercial release) -- internet leak
• Murder Between Friends (two versions) -- internet leak
• Millennium: Season 1 [1996] -- promotional CD
• The X-Files: Jose Chung's From Outer Space [1996] -- internet leak
• The X-Files Season 5: The Post-Modern Prometheus, Christmas Carol [1997] -- internet leak
• Night Sins (TV mini series)- [1997] - internet leak
• The 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 Launching

Personal life

Snow married Glynn Daly in 1967. They have three children. Glynn is the sister of actress Tyne Daly and actor Tim Daly.

References

1. ^ According to the "Behind the Truth" segment on the X-Files Season 1 DVD, Mark Snow created the echo effect on the "The X-Files" theme song by accident. Snow said that he had gone through several revisions, but X-Files creator/writer/director Chris Carter felt that something was not quite right. Carter walked out of the room and Snow put his hand and forearm on his keyboard in frustration. Snow said, "this sound was in the keyboard. And that was it."

External links

• Mark Snow at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography
• Interview with Randall D. Larson, Soundtrax: Episode 2008-11, 23 May 2008

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Date of birth	August 26, 1946
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