Overview

• Mark Snow died at his Connecticut home on July 4, 2025, at age 78, his representative confirmed.
• He scored more than 200 episodes of The X-Files and provided music for decades of hit series including Hart to Hart, Smallville and Blue Bloods.
• He earned 15 Emmy nominations—six for The X-Files—and received career honors from ASCAP and the Television Academy.
• After composing orchestral scores in the 1970s, he pioneered an all-electronic home-studio workflow in the late 1980s.
• Composer Sean Callery and other peers remembered him for his generosity and enduring influence on a new generation of television composers.