It took a misplaced elbow, a quirk of Los Angeles geography and some whistling from his wife to produce one of television’s most memorable melodies.

The composer Mark Snow has died at 78 years old. He did the music for many TV shows, including The X-Files, Smallville and Blue Bloods.

Mark Snow, the prolific television composer best known for crafting the haunting theme to The X-Files, died Friday at his home in Connecticut. He was 78.

Mark Snow, the celebrated composer of the iconic X‑Files theme and a Juilliard alum, has died at 78 in Connecticut. With 15 ...

Files” theme became one of TV’s most recognizable melodies and even charted around the world in its original form and as a ...

Mark Snow, the legendary composer behind the hauntingly iconic theme of The X-Files, has passed away at the age of 78 at his ...

Mark Snow, the composer for a number of TV shows including The X-Files and its spinoff series Millennium, passed away on ...

Snow, born Martin Fulterman in New York, grew up in Brooklyn. In the 1960s, he started the band Emil and the Detectives with ...

Composer Mark Snow isbest for his work on the iconic X-Files theme as well as music for series such as Smallville, Ghost ...

Mark Snow, a veteran television composer known for his iconic theme for "The X-Files" that unexpectedly became a chart hit in ...

Mark Snow, the Emmy-nominated composer behind the beloved X-Files theme song, has died. He was 78. Snow died Friday at his ...

Mark Snow, a 15-time Emmy nominee, scored over 200 episodes of 'X-Files' and composed for 'Ghost Whisperer,' 'Smallville,' and 'Blue Bloods.' ...