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Welcome to the Dimitri Tiomkin official website. The name Dimitri Tiomkin calls forth the image of one of Hollywood’s most distinguished and best-loved composers. Whether the genre was Westerns, drama, comedy, film noir, adventure, or war documentary, Tiomkin’s visceral, dramatic underscores helped bring more than 100 feature films to vivid life. The list of respected directors who continuously called on his services is impressive: Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, and Alfred Hitchcock among them.


Behind the photograph: Nickolas Muray portrait of Dimitri Tiomkin

NEW RELEASES: Warner Archive releases Angel Face, Land of the Pharaohs, and The Old Man and the Sea on Blu-ray

Behold a Trending Composer! Maurice Jarre replaces first choice Dimitri Tiomkin for Fred Zinnemann’s film based on Killing a Mouse on Sunday

The True Story of How Dimitri Tiomkin’s Music Arranger and His Wife Created an International Brand with Mr & Mrs T® Bloody Mary Mix (the most complete accounting of Herb and June Taylor and Taylor Food Products ever published)

Intrada Records releases Albertina Rasch & The Great American Ballet: Piano Music for Concert and Stage by Dimitri Tiomkin, Lynda Cochrane, piano

Browse the Dimitri Tiomkin Collection inventory for his collection at the Cinematic Arts Library at the University of Southern California (USC)

TIOMKIN, DIMITRI USC Music Collection Inventory UPDATED 18 June 2020


As the composer behind such memorable films as High Noon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It’s a Wonderful Life, Giant, Dial M for Murder, Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt, Lost Horizon, and Rio Bravo he enjoyed an enviable position in the American film industry, having written for both film and television, and writing songs in addition to scores.

Several of Tiomkin’s songs have gone on to become popular standards. Undoubtedly the most famous of these is “Do Not Forsake Me” from High Noon, but Tiomkin also wrote “Thee I Love” from Friendly Persuasion, “The Green Leaves of Summer” from The Alamo, and the theme from the television series Rawhide.


Popular articles on our site:

A to Z Guide to Dimitri Tiomkin music publications and rentals, research, and rights clearance

Dimitri Tiomkin at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

The Day on Fire: James Ramsey Ullman and Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Tiomkin and Madame President, on the road to producing films

Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold

Statues in a Garden: Isabel Colegate and Dimitri Tiomkin

Who Wrote the Music for A Little Racketeer?


In the course of his career, Tiomkin received nearly two dozen Academy Award score and song nominations over five consecutive decades. Of these, he took home four Oscars. International honors are found along his career path as well. The French government bestowed on him the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) and both the Chevalier and Officier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight and Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor). From the government of Spain, Tiomkin received La Cruz de Caballero de la Orden de Isabel la Católica.


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