Dimitri Tiomkin

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1894-05-10 (85 years old)

Deathday

1979-11-11

Place of Birth

Kremenchuk, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Dimitri Tiomkin

Biography

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in St. Petersburg, Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, 55 Days at Peking, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Last Train from Gun Hill, as well as his work with director Frank Capra. Tiomkin received 22 Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars, t...

Acting

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1952

High Noon

as Original Music Composer

1959

Rio Bravo

as Original Music Composer

1954

Dial M for Murder

as Original Music Composer

1946

It's a Wonderful Life

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Men

as Original Music Composer

1951

Strangers on a Train

as Original Music Composer

1953

Angel Face

as Original Music Composer

1951

The Thing from Another World

as Original Music Composer

1953

I Confess

as Original Music Composer

1939

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Original Music Composer

1961

The Guns of Navarone

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Alamo

as Original Music Composer

1937

Lost Horizon

as Original Music Composer

1943

1958

The Old Man and the Sea

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Unforgiven

as Original Music Composer

1948

Portrait of Jennie

as Original Music Composer

1941

Meet John Doe

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Steel Trap

as Original Music Composer

1949

Red Light

as Original Music Composer

1957

Night Passage

as Original Music Composer

1945

Dillinger

as Original Music Composer

1963

55 Days at Peking

as Original Music Composer

1953

Jeopardy

as Original Music Composer

1951

The Well

as Original Music Composer

1959

Last Train from Gun Hill

as Original Music Composer

1964

Circus World

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Big Sky

as Original Music Composer

1947

The Long Night

as Original Music Composer

1950

Guilty Bystander

as Original Music Composer

1954

A Bullet Is Waiting

as Original Music Composer

1939

Only Angels Have Wings

as Original Music Composer

1946

The Dark Mirror

as Original Music Composer

1954

The High and the Mighty

as Original Music Composer

1949

D.O.A.

as Original Music Composer

1948

Tarzan and the Mermaids

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Moon and Sixpence

as Original Music Composer

1946

Whistle Stop

as Original Music Composer

1955

Land of the Pharaohs

as Original Music Composer

1953

Return to Paradise

as Original Music Composer

1953

Take the High Ground!

as Original Music Composer

1935

The Casino Murder Case

as Original Music Composer

1952

Bugles in the Afternoon

as Original Music Composer

1938

1937

1953

Blowing Wild

as Conductor

1957

Night Passage

as Conductor

1954

1948

So This Is New York

as Original Music Composer

1952

Mutiny

as Original Music Composer

1944

1954

The Command

as Original Music Composer

1956

1944

When Strangers Marry

as Original Music Composer

1950

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Music Director

1950

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Original Music Composer

1941

1960

The Sundowners

as Conductor

1997

Merry Christmas, George Bailey!

as Original Music Composer

1959

The Young Land

as Original Music Composer

1959

1941

The Corsican Brothers

as Original Music Composer

1935

Mad Love

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Men

as Music Director

1951

1953

I Confess

as Conductor

1950

1949

D.O.A.

as Music Director

1960

The Sundowners

as Original Music Composer

1951

1956

Friendly Persuasion

as Original Music Composer

1949

Home of the Brave

as Original Music Composer

1943

Report from the Aleutians

as Original Music Composer

1946

Let There Be Light

as Original Music Composer

1946

Black Beauty

as Original Music Composer

1949

Champion

as Songs

1949

Champion

as Original Music Composer

1951

Drums in the Deep South

as Original Music Composer

1956

Tension at Table Rock

as Original Music Composer

1946

Angel on My Shoulder

as Original Music Composer

1946

Angel on My Shoulder

as Music Director

1940

Men Without Souls

as Original Music Composer

1967

The War Wagon

as Original Music Composer

1944

1933

Alice in Wonderland

as Original Music Composer

1957

Wild Is the Wind

as Original Music Composer

1957

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

as Original Music Composer

1951

Peking Express

as Original Music Composer

1964

36 Hours

as Original Music Composer

1943

1942

Twin Beds

as Music

1964

The Fall of the Roman Empire

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Four Poster

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Happy Time

as Original Music Composer

1940

The Westerner

as Original Music Composer

1948

The Dude Goes West

as Original Music Composer

1945

Pardon My Past

as Original Music Composer

1968

Great Catherine

as Original Music Composer

1956

Giant

as Original Music Composer

1943

Shadow of a Doubt

as Original Music Composer

1950

Champagne for Caesar

as Original Music Composer

1938

You Can't Take It with You

as Original Music Composer

1946

1941

Scattergood Meets Broadway

as Original Music Composer

1945

1940

Lucky Partners

as Original Music Composer

1952

My Six Convicts

as Music Director

1944

When Strangers Marry

as Music Director

1944

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as Original Music Composer

1970

Tchaikovsky

as Music Arranger

1953

Blowing Wild

as Original Music Composer

1950

Champagne for Caesar

as Music Director

1950

Dakota Lil

as Original Music Composer

1969

Mackenna's Gold

as Producer

1949

Canadian Pacific

as Original Music Composer

1948

Red River

as Original Music Composer

1948

Red River

as Music Director

1953

Cease Fire!

as Music

1952

My Six Convicts

as Original Music Composer

1945

China's Little Devils

as Original Music Composer

1961

1950

Guilty Bystander

as Music Director

1954

His Majesty O'Keefe

as Original Music Composer

1955

Strange Lady in Town

as Original Music Composer

1935

I Live My Life

as Original Music Composer

1946

Duel in the Sun

as Original Music Composer

1954

Dial M for Murder

as Conductor

1959

Rio Bravo

as Songs

1959

Rio Bravo

as Conductor

1955

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

as Original Music Composer

1967

The War Wagon

as Conductor

1941

The Face Behind the Mask

as Additional Music

1970

Tchaikovsky

as Original Music Composer

1949

Red Light

as Music Director

1946

Duel in the Sun

as Conductor

1953

Angel Face

as Conductor

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