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 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.

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Themes for TV series

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

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?
1976 Starsky and Hutch 15 episodes, including arranging the season 3 opening theme NO
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
1980 When the Whistle Blows Incomplete episodes:
 NO
1982 TJ Hooker 12 episodes, including all season 1 NO
1983 Lottery! Incomplete episodes:
"Los Angeles: Bigger Volume"
"Denver: Following Through"
"Portland: Treasure Hunt"
"Minneapolis: Six Months Down"		 NO
1986 Bridges Go Cross Incomplete episodes:
 NO
1986 The Girl Who Spelled Freedom TV movie. NO
1987 Overboard TV movie. NO
1991 All Together Now Incomplete episodes:
"Daddy Cool" (pilot)		 NO
1992 The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story TV movie. NO
2010 to 2011 Blue Bloods Incomplete episodes:
 NO
2011 Ringer Incomplete episodes:
 NO

Soundtracks

Commercially released

Mark Snow has released the following soundtracks commercially:

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:

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."

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