Dimitri Tiomkin

DIMITRI TIOMKIN d1979. 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 OK Corral and Last Train from Gun Hill. He 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. He died in London aged 85 on November 11th 1979