Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (, "Dmitrij Zinov'evič Tjomkin", , "Dmytro Zynoviyovyč Tomkin") (May 10, 1894November 11, 1979) was a Russian empire-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 O.K. Corral", and "Last Train from Gun Hill".