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
1968 Great Catherine. Keep Films Ltd. 99 min 35mm Color sound
1967 The War Wagon. Universal Pictures & Batjac Productions Inc. 97 min 35mm Color sound
1964 36 Hours. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. & Perlberg-Seaton Productions Inc. 111 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
1958 Wild Is The Wind. Paramount Pictures Corp. Hal B. Wallis & Joseph H. Hazen 114 min 35mm B&W sound
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
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
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
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
1952 High noon telefilm 84 16mm B&W sound
1952 High Noon Fred Zinnemann 85 min 16mm B&W
1952 Lady In The Iron Mask. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 78 min. 35mm Color sound
1952 My Six Convicts Stanley Kramer Productions 104 min 16mm B&W sound
1952 The Big Sky Howard Hawks 1:40 B&W
1951 Strangers on a train Warner Bros Pictures Inc 1:41:00 16mm B&W sound
1950 Cyrano de Bergerac Michael Gordon 1:13 B&W
1950 Dakota Lil. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 88 min. 35mm Color sound
1949 D.O.A. Rudolph Maté 83 B&W
1949 Red Light. Roy Del Ruth 83 min. 35mm B&W sound
1948 Portrait of Jennie William Dieterle 86 min 16mm Color & B&W
1948 Portrait Of Jennie. William Dieterle 86 min. 35mm B&W sound
1948 Tarzan and the mermaids. Robert Florey 68 min. 16mm B&W sound
1947 Duel In The Sun unknown 129 min 16mm Color & B&W sound
1947 Duel in the Sun Selznick International Pictures Inc 2:10:00 16mm Color sound
1947 It's A Wonderful Life. Liberty Films 129 min 35mm B&W sound
1946 Angel on my Shoulder Archie Mayo 100 min 16mm B&W
1945 China's Little Devils. Monta Bell 8 reels B&W
1945 Know your enemy--Japan Frank Capra, Joris Ivens 63 min B&W
1945 Know Your Enemy: Japan Frank Capra, Joris Ivens 63 min B&W
1945 The Battle of San Pietro ▶ John Huston 32 16mm B&W sound
1945 War Comes to America ▶ U S War Dept 70 min 16mm B&W sound
1945 War Comes to America National Audiovisual Center 67 min. 16mm B&W sound
1945 War comes to America Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak 70 min B&W
1945 WAR COMES TO AMERICA War Department (Discontinued Agency, re-released by USIA) 67 min B&W Optical sound
1944 Dillinger Mantel Harry 90 min 16mm B&W sound
1944 Forever Yours. William Nigh 10 reels B&W
1944 The Battle of China U. S. War Department 1:07:00 16mm B&W sound
1944 The Battle of China Anatole Litvak, Frank Capra 65 min B&W
1944 The Battle of Russia National Audiovisual Center 80 16mm B&W sound
1943 REPORT FROM THE ALEUTIANS ▶ U.S. Army Signal Corps; John Huston 47 min 16mm Color sound
1943 San Pietro. U.S. Department of the Army 39 16mm B&W sound
1943 Shadow of a Doubt Universal Pictures Company Inc | Universal Pictures Corporation 108 1:48:00 1:48:00 1:48:00 16mm B&W sound
1943 The Battle of China ▶ National Archives and Records Administration 65 min 16mm/video file B&W