Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Tiomkin

  • Birthday: 1894-05-10
  • Deathday: 1979-11-11
  • Place of birth: Kremenchuk, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

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, three for Best Original Score for High Noon, The High and the Mighty, and The Old Man and the Sea, and one for Best Original Song for "The Ballad of High Noon" from the former film.

Filmography

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

As Self (archive footage)

Production

Mackenna's Gold

1969

As Producer

Rio Bravo

1959

As Original Music Composer

High Noon

1952

As Original Music Composer

Dial M for Murder

1954

As Original Music Composer

Strangers on a Train

1951

As Original Music Composer

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

As Original Music Composer

Giant

1956

As Music

The Men

1950

As Original Music Composer

Angel Face

1953

As Original Music Composer

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

As Original Music Composer

Lost Horizon

1937

As Original Music Composer

The Thing from Another World

1951

As Original Music Composer

The Guns of Navarone

1961

As Original Music Composer

I Confess

1953

As Original Music Composer

The Alamo

1960

As Original Music Composer

Shadow of a Doubt

1943

As Music

The Old Man and the Sea

1958

As Original Music Composer

Angel on My Shoulder

1946

As Music Director

The Unforgiven

1960

As Original Music Composer

The Steel Trap

1952

As Original Music Composer

Night Passage

1957

As Original Music Composer

Meet John Doe

1941

As Original Music Composer

Portrait of Jennie

1948

As Original Music Composer

Red Light

1949

As Original Music Composer

55 Days at Peking

1963

As Original Music Composer

Dillinger

1945

As Original Music Composer

The Well

1951

As Original Music Composer

Jeopardy

1953

As Original Music Composer

Last Train from Gun Hill

1959

As Original Music Composer

Circus World

1964

As Original Music Composer

The Big Sky

1952

As Original Music Composer

Guilty Bystander

1950

As Original Music Composer

Only Angels Have Wings

1939

As Original Music Composer

The Dark Mirror

1946

As Original Music Composer

The Long Night

1947

As Original Music Composer

A Bullet Is Waiting

1954

As Original Music Composer

The High and the Mighty

1954

As Original Music Composer

D.O.A.

1949

As Original Music Composer

Tarzan and the Mermaids

1948

As Original Music Composer

Whistle Stop

1946

As Original Music Composer

The Moon and Sixpence

1942

As Original Music Composer

Bugles in the Afternoon

1952

As Original Music Composer

Spawn of the North

1938

As Music

The Road Back

1937

As Music

Mutiny

1952

As Original Music Composer

The Command

1954

As Original Music Composer

Search for Paradise

1957

As Music

When Strangers Marry

1944

As Original Music Composer

Forced Landing

1941

As Music

Champagne for Caesar

1950

As Music

The Young Land

1959

As Original Music Composer

Rhapsody of Steel

1959

As Music

The Corsican Brothers

1941

As Original Music Composer

Mad Love

1935

As Original Music Composer

The Thing from Another World

1951

As Music Director

The Sundowners

1960

As Original Music Composer

Mister Universe

1951

As Music

Home of the Brave

1949

As Original Music Composer

Friendly Persuasion

1956

As Original Music Composer

Let There Be Light

1946

As Original Music Composer

Report from the Aleutians

1943

As Original Music Composer

Champion

1949

As Songs

Champion

1949

As Original Music Composer

Black Beauty

1946

As Original Music Composer

Drums in the Deep South

1951

As Original Music Composer

Angel on My Shoulder

1946

As Original Music Composer

Tension at Table Rock

1956

As Original Music Composer

The War Wagon

1967

As Original Music Composer

The Guns of Navarone

1961

As Songs

The Negro Soldier

1944

As Music

Alice in Wonderland

1933

As Original Music Composer

Wild Is the Wind

1957

As Original Music Composer

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957

As Original Music Composer

Peking Express

1951

As Original Music Composer

36 Hours

1964

As Original Music Composer

Twin Beds

1942

As Music

The Four Poster

1952

As Original Music Composer

The Happy Time

1952

As Original Music Composer

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964

As Original Music Composer

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957

As Conductor

Pardon My Past

1945

As Original Music Composer

The Dude Goes West

1948

As Original Music Composer

Great Catherine

1968

As Original Music Composer

Lucky Partners

1940

As Original Music Composer

Lady In The Iron Mask

1952

As Music

My Six Convicts

1952

As Music Director

Friendly Persuasion

1975

As Music

Blowing Wild

1953

As Original Music Composer

Dakota Lil

1950

As Original Music Composer

Champagne for Caesar

1950

As Music Director

Canadian Pacific

1949

As Original Music Composer

Red River

1948

As Original Music Composer

Red River

1948

As Music Director

Cease Fire!

1953

As Music

My Six Convicts

1952

As Original Music Composer

A Tale of Two Cities

1953

As Music

Town Without Pity

1961

As Music

China's Little Devils

1945

As Original Music Composer

Guilty Bystander

1950

As Music Director

His Majesty O'Keefe

1954

As Original Music Composer

Strange Lady in Town

1955

As Original Music Composer

I Live My Life

1935

As Original Music Composer

Duel in the Sun

1946

As Original Music Composer

Dial M for Murder

1954

As Conductor

Rio Bravo

1959

As Songs

Rio Bravo

1959

As Conductor

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955

As Original Music Composer

Land of the Pharaohs

1955

As Original Music Composer

Return to Paradise

1953

As Original Music Composer

Take the High Ground!

1953

As Original Music Composer

The Casino Murder Case

1935

As Original Music Composer

So This Is New York

1948

As Original Music Composer

The Mummy's Curse

1944

As Music

Tension at Table Rock

1956

As Conductor

Cyrano de Bergerac

1950

As Original Music Composer

Cyrano de Bergerac

1950

As Music Director

Blowing Wild

1953

As Conductor

Night Passage

1957

As Conductor

The Sundowners

1960

As Conductor

The Men

1950

As Music Director

Roast-Beef and Movies

1934

As Music

The Westerner

1940

As Original Music Composer

The Cat Creeps

1946

As Music

The Jungle Captive

1945

As Music

A Bullet Is Waiting

1954

As Conductor

Merry Christmas, George Bailey!

1997

As Original Music Composer

I Confess

1953

As Conductor

Undercover Girl

1950

As Music

D.O.A.

1949

As Music Director

Men Without Souls

1940

As Original Music Composer

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