Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Tiomkin

Ukrainian and American composer (1894–1979)

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg 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, Rio Bravo, The Alamo, and Last Train from Gun Hill.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 67 films (1935–1968) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 23 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1952 The Big Sky Howard Hawks 1:40 B&W
1953 Cease fire! Owen Crump 16mm B&W sound
1953 I Confess Warner Bros Pictures Inc 1:35:00 16mm B&W sound
1953 The Steel Trap. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 85 min. 35mm B&W sound
1954 Carmen Jones Films inc. 107 mi 16mm Color sound
1954 The Adventures Of Hajji Baba. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 11 reels. 35mm Color sound
1956 Tension At Table Rock Ideal Pictures Inc 93 min 16mm Color sound
1956 The Old Man and the Sea WNET/13 86 min 16mm B&W
1956 The old man and the sea John Sturges 86 min Color
1957 Night Passage. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 10 reels 35mm Color sound
1957 The Young Land. C. V. Whitney Pictures Inc. 89 min. 35mm Color sound
1958 Wild Is The Wind. Paramount Pictures Corp. Hal B. Wallis & Joseph H. Hazen 114 min 35mm B&W sound
1959 Rio Bravo Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick 136 min Color
1959 The Young Land Ideal Pictures Inc 89 min 16mm Color sound
1964 36 Hours. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. & Perlberg-Seaton Productions Inc. 111 min 35mm B&W sound
1967 The War Wagon. Universal Pictures & Batjac Productions Inc. 97 min 35mm Color sound
1968 Great Catherine. Keep Films Ltd. 99 min 35mm Color sound