Trivia

Pictured on one of six 33¢ USA commemorative postage stamps in the Legends of American Music series, honoring Hollywood Composers, issued 21 September 1999. Issued in panes of 20 stamps. Others honored in the set were Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Died from injuries resulting from fracturing his pelvis in a fall

Tiomkin is credited with the ballet music in Crazy House (1930), which reused Technicolor footage from The March of Time (1930), which was abandoned. Some prints of Crazy House have deleted this sequence.

He wasn't used to handshakes. Whenever he would meet a woman, he would bend over to kiss her hand, while she would thrust her hand out for a handshake, and she would whack him in the face.

According to those who knew him, he took small, careful steps like a ballet dancer.

Composed some 140 film scores.