Mark Snow, a composer of music for television -- including the distinctively eerie theme for "The X Files" -- has died at age 78, his agent confirmed.

The world of television and film has lost a major figure with the death of American composer Mark Snow, who was behind the iconic theme tune to The X Files.

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 ...

The X Files main theme was released as a single in 1996 and charted internationally. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

Mark Snow, the composer known for his work on numerous hit television shows, has died at age 78. Snow died on Friday at his ...

Within dimly lit FBI offices and shadowy woods, The X-Files constructed a world in which the unexplainable was not only ...

Mark Snow, best known as the game-changing composer for "The X-Files," has died. Variety reports the composer died at his ...

But when naming high points from the franchise, I’m guessing that most longtime fans will pick moments from the original run ...

The star was best known for his work on the iconic X Files as well as penning the music for series such as Smallville, Ghost Whisperer and Blue Bloods ...

Mark Snow, the composer behind the widely acclaimed X-Files theme song, has passed away at the age of 78. A representative ...

The winning design is on two levels: a bottom level recreation of the iconic X-Files office and a top layer complete with a ...