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Mark Snow, ‘X-Files,’ ‘Ghost Whisperer,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ Composer, Dies at 78
Mark Snow, the veteran television composer who turned "The X-Files" theme into an unlikely chart hit in the 1990s has died. He was 78.
Six of his 15 Emmy nominations were for “The X-Files,” but five others were for such high rated TV-movies and miniseries including “Something About Amelia,” “An American Story,” “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All,” “Children of the Dust” and “Helter Skelter.” He also studied with veteran TV composer Earle Hagen (“The Andy Griffith Show”) and serial-music teacher George Tremblay to improve his scoring techniques. Among his other TV-movies and miniseries were “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble” with John Travolta, HBO’s “Vietnam War Stories,” the Louis L’Amour western “Down the Long Hills,” “Murder Ordained” with Keith Carradine, “Everybody’s Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure,” “The Lost Capone,” six “In the Line of Duty” films including “Siege at Waco,” “A Woman Scored: The Betty Broderick Story” with Meredith Baxter, “The Day Lincoln Was Shot” with Rob Morrow, and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” starring Michael Caine.
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