Dimitri Tiomkin
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 (27)
Mackenna's Gold
The War Wagon
The Fall of the Roman Empire
55 Days at Peking
The Guns of Navarone
The Unforgiven
The Alamo
Rio Bravo
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Giant
Friendly Persuasion
Dial M for Murder
The High and the Mighty
I Confess
High Noon
The Thing from Another World
Strangers on a Train
Red River
It's a Wonderful Life
Duel in the Sun
The Dark Mirror
The Mummy's Curse
Shadow of a Doubt
Meet John Doe
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
You Can't Take It with You
