1894
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (died 1979)
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (died 1979)
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (died 1979)
Dimitri Tiomkin
Russian and American composer (1894–1979)
- Born
- 1894
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, and Last Train from Gun Hill.