Dimitri Tiomkin
Born: 1894-05-10 in Kremenchug, Poltava governorate, Russian Empire
Died: 1979-11-11
Known For: Sound
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
2004
- Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess ... (Music)
1997
- Merry Christmas, George Bailey ... (Original Music Composer)
1975
- Friendly Persuasion ... (Music)
1970
- Tchaikovsky ... (Music Arranger)
1969
- Mackenna's Gold ... (Producer)
1968
- Great Catherine ... (Original Music Composer)
1967
- The War Wagon ... (Original Music Composer)
1964
- The Fall of the Roman Empire ... (Conductor)
- 36 Hours ... (Original Music Composer)
- Circus World ... (Original Music Composer)
1963
- 55 Days at Peking ... (Original Music Composer)
1961
- The Guns of Navarone ... (Original Music Composer)
- Town Without Pity ... (Original Music Composer)
1960
- The Alamo ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Unforgiven ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sundowners ... (Conductor)
1959
- Rio Bravo ... (Original Music Composer)
- Last Train from Gun Hill ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Young Land ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rhapsody of Steel ... (Music)
1958
- The Old Man and the Sea ... (Original Music Composer)
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ... (Original Music Composer)
- Night Passage ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wild Is the Wind ... (Original Music Composer)
- Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party as Self
- Search for Paradise ... (Original Music Composer)
1956
- Giant ... (Original Music Composer)
- Friendly Persuasion ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tension at Table Rock ... (Conductor)
1955
- Land of the Pharaohs ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell ... (Conductor)
- Strange Lady in Town ... (Original Music Composer)
1954
- Dial M for Murder ... (Original Music Composer)
- The High and the Mighty ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Adventures of Hajji Baba ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Command ... (Original Music Composer)
- His Majesty O'Keefe ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Bullet Is Waiting ... (Original Music Composer)
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- I Confess ... (Original Music Composer)
- Angel Face ... (Original Music Composer)
- Return to Paradise ... (Original Music Composer)
- Jeopardy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blowing Wild ... (Conductor)
- Take the High Ground! ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Tale of Two Cities ... (Music)
- Cease Fire! ... (Original Music Composer)
1952
- High Noon ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Big Sky ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mutiny ... (Original Music Composer)
- My Six Convicts ... (Music Director)
- The Steel Trap ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bugles in the Afternoon ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Four Poster ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lady in the Iron Mask ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Happy Time ... (Original Music Composer)
1951
- Strangers on a Train ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Thing from Another World ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Well ... (Original Music Composer)
- Peking Express ... (Original Music Composer)
- Drums in the Deep South ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mister Universe ... (Original Music Composer)
1950
- The Men ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cyrano de Bergerac ... (Music Director)
- Guilty Bystander ... (Original Music Composer)
- Champagne for Caesar ... (Original Music Composer)
- Undercover Girl ... (Music)
- Dakota Lil ... (Original Music Composer)
1949
- Canadian Pacific ... (Original Music Composer)
- Red Light ... (Original Music Composer)
- Champion ... (Songs)
- D.O.A. ... (Original Music Composer)
- Home of the Brave ... (Original Music Composer)
1948
- Red River ... (Original Music Composer)
- Portrait of Jennie ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tarzan and the Mermaids ... (Original Music Composer)
- So This Is New York ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Dude Goes West ... (Original Music Composer)
1947
- The Long Night ... (Original Music Composer)
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life ... (Original Music Composer)
- Duel in the Sun ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Dark Mirror ... (Original Music Composer)
- Whistle Stop ... (Original Music Composer)
- Angel on My Shoulder ... (Original Music Composer)
- Black Beauty ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Cat Creeps ... (Music)
- Let There Be Light ... (Original Music Composer)
1945
- Dillinger ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Jungle Captive ... (Music)
- Know Your Enemy: Japan ... (Music)
- War Comes to America ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pardon My Past ... (Original Music Composer)
- Forever Yours ... (Original Music Composer)
- China's Little Devils ... (Original Music Composer)
1944
- The Mummy's Curse ... (Music)
- When Strangers Marry ... (Original Music Composer)
- Why We Fight: The Battle of China ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Impostor ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Negro Soldier ... (Music)
- Attack! The Battle for New Britain ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ladies Courageous ... (Original Music Composer)
1943
- Shadow of a Doubt ... (Music)
- Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia ... (Original Music Composer)
- Report from the Aleutians ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Unknown Guest ... (Original Music Composer)
1942
- The Moon and Sixpence ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Gentleman After Dark ... (Original Music Composer)
- Twin Beds ... (Original Music Composer)
1941
- Meet John Doe ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Face Behind the Mask ... (Additional Music)
- The Corsican Brothers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Flying Blind ... (Original Music Composer)
- Forced Landing ... (Original Music Composer)
- Scattergood Meets Broadway ... (Original Music Composer)
1940
- The Westerner ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lucky Partners ... (Original Music Composer)
- Men Without Souls ... (Original Music Composer)
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ... (Original Music Composer)
- Only Angels Have Wings ... (Original Music Composer)
1938
- You Can't Take It with You ... (Original Music Composer)
- Spawn of the North ... (Original Music Composer)
1937
- Lost Horizon ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Road Back ... (Original Music Composer)
1935
- Mad Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Live My Life ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Casino Murder Case ... (Original Music Composer)
1934
- Roast-Beef and Movies ... (Music)
1933
- Alice in Wonderland ... (Original Music Composer)
1930
- Lord Byron of Broadway ... (Songs)