Files” theme into an unlikely chart hit in the 1990s, died Friday at his home in Connecticut. He was 78. A 15-time Emmy nominee, he not only scored more than 200 episodes of Chris Carter’s spooky Fox series (and both its big-screen incarnations,

"His limitless talent and boundless creativity was matched only by the generosity he bestowed upon other composers who sought his guidance," a friend and fellow composer said Mark Snow, the composer best known for creating the iconic theme song for The X-Files,