Mark Snow
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Mark Snow 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 Award
s 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.
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.
Mark Snow released The X Files theme song as a single in March 1996 which reached number 2 in the UK charts.
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
and actor Tim Daly.
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composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
for film and television.
Born in New York, he grew up in Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, 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
New York Rock & Roll Ensemble
The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble was a rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s described as playing "classical baroque rock".Years Active: 1967 - 1973- History/Biography :...
.
Among his most famous compositions is the theme music for sci-fi television series The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
. The theme reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart. Snow also wrote the music for another Chris Carter
Chris Carter (screenwriter)
Christopher Carl Carter is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He is the creator of The X-Files and Millennium.- Ten Thirteen Productions :...
series, Millennium
Millennium (TV series)
Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. Millennium aired on the Fox Network from 1996 to 1999. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most episodes were ostensibly set in or around Seattle, Washington...
, and the background music scores
Film score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...
for both shows, a total of 12 seasons' worth.
He also composed the score for the television movie
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
Dirty Pictures
Dirty Pictures (television movie)
Dirty Pictures is a 2000 American docudrama directed by Frank Pierson. The teleplay by Ilene Chaiken focuses on the 1990 trial of Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center director Dennis Barrie, who was accused of promoting pornography by presenting an exhibit of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe that...
, the series Smallville
Smallville (TV series)
Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB Television Network , premiering on October...
and One Tree Hill
One Tree Hill (TV series)
One Tree Hill is an American television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and, since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster...
. He has also composed music for video games, such as Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror is a third-person shooter developed by SCE Bend Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released in North America for the PSP on March 14, 2006 and Europe on October 6, 2006. It is the sequel to Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain. In Dark Mirror, a...
and Urban Assault
Urban Assault
Urban Assault is a combined first-person shooter and real-time strategy computer game developed by the German company TerraTools and published by Microsoft. It was released on July 31, 1998....
(cutscene music only).
Snow has been nominated for 19 Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
s and won 34 ASCAP
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them...
awards. He was nominated for a César Award
César Award
The César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma....
for his work on the film Coeurs directed by French director, Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
. 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
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
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 PetsWonder PetsWonder Pets is an American animated children's television series. It debuted on March 3, 2006, on the Nick Jr. block of the Nickelodeon cable television network and Noggin on the same day...
(2007) - Ghost WhispererGhost WhispererGhost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...
(2005—2010) - The Lone GunmenThe Lone GunmenThe Lone Gunmen are a trio of fictional characters, Richard "Ringo" Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Fitzgerald Byers, who have recurring roles on the American television series The X-Files. They also starred in a short-lived spin-off, also called The Lone Gunmen. The name was derived from the lone...
(all episodes; 2001) - Urban AssaultUrban AssaultUrban Assault is a combined first-person shooter and real-time strategy computer game developed by the German company TerraTools and published by Microsoft. It was released on July 31, 1998....
(VG) (1998) - La Femme Nikita (1997–2001)
- The Guardian (TV series)The Guardian (TV series)The Guardian is an American drama series which aired on CBS from September 25, 2001 to May 4, 2004. It is currently showing in re-runs on the Sleuth Channel in the US. The Guardian has also aired in the United Kingdom on the Hallmark Channel, ABC1 and more recently five USA and as of August...
(2001-?) - MillenniumMillennium (TV series)Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. Millennium aired on the Fox Network from 1996 to 1999. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most episodes were ostensibly set in or around Seattle, Washington...
(all episodes; 1996–99) - Nowhere ManNowhere Man (TV series)Nowhere Man is an American television series that aired from 1995 to 1996 starring Bruce Greenwood. Created by Lawrence Hertzog, the series aired Monday nights on UPN. Despite critical acclaim, including TV Guides label of "The season's coolest hit," the show was cancelled after only one...
(1995) - The X-FilesThe X-FilesThe X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
(1993–2002) - Hart to HartHart to HartHart to Hart is an American television series, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who also moonlighted as amateur detectives. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg...
(1979–84) - The War WidowThe War WidowThe War Widow is a ground-breaking 1976 television film starring Pamela Bellwood, Frances Lee McCain, Tim Matheson, and Nan Martin. Originally broadcast by KCET, Los Angeles on their dramatic showcase series, "Visions", this sweet, quiet film is set during World War I. It is the story of Amy, a...
(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? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Starsky and Hutch Starsky and Hutch Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series that consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC... |
15 episodes, including arranging the season 3 opening theme | NO |
| 1979 | 240-Robert 240-Robert 240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.-Synopsis:... |
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 Brothers and Sisters Brothers and Sisters may refer to:* Brothers & Sisters , an American television series* Brothers and Sisters , an American sitcom* "Brothers & Sisters" , episode of Family Guy... |
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 |
| 1982 | TJ Hooker | 12 episodes, including all season 1 | NO |
| 1983 | Lottery! Lottery! Lottery! is an American drama series premiered on ABC on September 9, 1983. The series aired for one season of 17 episodes and starred Ben Murphy as Patrick Sean Flaherty, and Marshall Colt as Eric Rush... |
Incomplete episodes: "Los Angeles: Bigger Volume" "Denver: Following Through" "Portland: Treasure Hunt" "Minneapolis: Six Months Down" |
NO |
| 1987 | Overboard Overboard Overboard may refer to:*Man overboard; a situation where a person goes over the side of a ship or boat into the water, possibly needing rescue*Overboard , a 1987 movie starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell... |
TV movie. | NO |
| 1991 | All Together Now All Together Now "All Together Now" is a song by The Beatles from their album Yellow SubmarineAll Together Now may also refer to:*All Together Now , a film following the creation of The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil... |
Incomplete episodes: "Daddy Cool" (pilot) |
NO |
| 2010 to 2011 | Blue Bloods Blue Bloods The Blue Bloods was the name of the professional wrestling stable in World Championship Wrestling that consisted of "Lord" Steven Regal, "Earl" Robert Eaton, and "Squire" David Taylor, along with their butler Jeeves, that operated in the middle to late 1990s.... |
Incomplete episodes: |
NO |
| 2011 | The Ringer The Ringer The Ringer is a 2005 developmental comedy starring Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, and Brian Cox with cameos by Terry Funk and Jesse Ventura. It is produced by the Farrelly Brothers and was released on December 23, 2005 by Fox Searchlight.- Plot :... |
Incomplete episodes: |
NO |
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-FilesThe X-Files (film)The X-Files is a 1998 American science fiction-thriller film written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Rob Bowman. It is the first feature film based on The X-Files series created by Carter that revolves around a fictional FBI paranormal investigation unit called 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 BelieveThe X-Files: I Want to BelieveThe X-Files: I Want to Believe is a 2008 science fiction-thriller directed by Chris Carter and written by both Carter and Frank Spotnitz. It is the second feature film based on The X-Files franchise created by Carter, following the 1998 film...
(film score) [2008] - Jake Speed (BuySoundtrax Records; same contents, but remastered, as the old Varese SarabandeVarèse SarabandeVarèse Sarabande is an American record label, distributed by Universal Music Group, which specializes in film scores and original cast recordings. It aims to reissue rare or unavailable albums as well as newer releases by artists no longer under a contract...
LP) [2009] - Conundrum [2009]
- Smallville Score From The Complete Series Vol. 1 [2011] With Louis Febre
- Harsm Realm/The Lone GunmenThe Lone GunmenThe Lone Gunmen are a trio of fictional characters, Richard "Ringo" Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Fitzgerald Byers, who have recurring roles on the American television series The X-Files. They also starred in a short-lived spin-off, also called The Lone Gunmen. The name was derived from the lone...
(selections from both shows, 1CD, limited, La La Land Records) [2010] - The X-FilesThe X-FilesThe X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
(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:Personal life
Snow married Glynn Daly in 1967. They have three children. Glynn is the sister of actress Tyne DalyTyne Daly
Tyne Daly is an American stage and screen actress, widely known for her work as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in the television series Cagney & Lacey and as Maxine Gray in the television series Judging Amy. She is also known for her role as Alice Henderson in television series Christy...
and actor Tim Daly.