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.

To Be Hero X doesn't need to bother telling us anything else about X, because his theme song just helped us by revealing his ...

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, a composer of music for television -- including the distinctively eerie theme for "The X Files" -- has died at age ...

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 ...