Dimitri Tiomkin
Known For: Sound
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: May 10, 1894
Day of Death: November 11, 1979 (86 years old)
Place of Birth: Kremenchuk, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
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.
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High Noon
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The Steel Trap
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The Big Sky
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Bugles in the Afternoon
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Mutiny
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The Four Poster
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The Happy Time
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My Six Convicts
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Lady In The Iron Mask
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My Six Convicts
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The Men
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Guilty Bystander
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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The Men
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Undercover Girl
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Champagne for Caesar
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Dakota Lil
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Champagne for Caesar
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Guilty Bystander
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It's a Wonderful Life
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The Dark Mirror
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Whistle Stop
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Black Beauty
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Let There Be Light
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Angel on My Shoulder
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Angel on My Shoulder
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The Cat Creeps
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Duel in the Sun
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Five Came Back: The Reference Films
