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Dimitri Tiomkin

Sound Kremenchug, Poltava governorate, Russian Empire

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.

27
Films

Filmography (27)

Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold

1969 Action, Adventure 2h 8min
67
Producer
The War Wagon

The War Wagon

1967 Action, Crime 1h 41min
68
Original Music Composer
Conductor
The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964 Drama, War 3h 8min
67
Conductor
Original Music Composer
55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking

1963 Drama, War 2h 34min
67
Original Music Composer
The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

1961 Action, Adventure 2h 40min
75
Original Music Composer
Songs
Conductor
The Unforgiven

The Unforgiven

1960 Drama, Romance 2h 5min
65
Original Music Composer
The Alamo

The Alamo

1960 Adventure, War 3h 22min
68
Original Music Composer
Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo

1959 Western 2h 21min
80
Original Music Composer
Songs
Conductor
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957 Drama, Western 2h 2min
71
Original Music Composer
Conductor
Songs
Giant

Giant

1956 Drama, Western 3h 21min
76
Original Music Composer
Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion

1956 Drama, War 2h 17min
73
Original Music Composer
Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder

1954 Thriller, Crime 1h 45min
82
Original Music Composer
Conductor
The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty

1954 Adventure, Thriller 2h 27min
66
Original Music Composer
I Confess

I Confess

1953 Thriller, Crime 1h 35min
72
Original Music Composer
Conductor
High Noon

High Noon

1952 Drama, Western 1h 25min
79
Original Music Composer
Music Director
The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World

1951 Horror, Science Fiction 1h 27min
70
Original Music Composer
Music Director
Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

1951 Thriller, Crime 1h 41min
79
Original Music Composer
Red River

Red River

1948 Western 2h 13min
77
Original Music Composer
Music Director
It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 Drama, Fantasy 2h 10min
86
Original Music Composer
Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun

1946 Drama, Romance 2h 24min
67
Original Music Composer
Conductor
The Dark Mirror

The Dark Mirror

1946 Horror, Mystery 1h 25min
71
Original Music Composer
The Mummy's Curse

The Mummy's Curse

1944 Horror, Fantasy 1h
54
Music
Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt

1943 Mystery, Thriller 1h 47min
78
Music
Original Music Composer
Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

1941 Comedy, Drama 2h 3min
76
Original Music Composer
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 Comedy, Drama 2h 10min
81
Original Music Composer
You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You

1938 Comedy, Romance 2h 6min
78
Original Music Composer
Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

1937 Science Fiction, Adventure 2h 12min
76
Original Music Composer

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