Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin, was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor, musically trained in Russia, he was best known for his western scores, including High Noon, released in which year, an American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper?
Dimitri Tiomkin Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor. Musically trained in Russia, he was best known for his western scores, including "Duel in the Sun", "Red River", "High Noon", "The Big Sky", "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", and "Last Train from Gun Hill". Tiomkin received twenty-two 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.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (film) For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, and Joseph Calleia. The screenwriter Dudley Nichols based his script on the 1940 novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The film is about an American International Brigades volunteer, Robert Jordan (Cooper), who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. During his desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge to protect Republican forces, Jordan falls in love with a young woman guerrilla fighter (Bergman).