Richard “Dick” DeBenedictis (born 1937) is an American composer noted for composing music for television shows including Perry Mason, Police Story, Columbo, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-O, Diagnosis: Murder, and Matlock. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Perry Mason is an Emmy -winning American TV series that ran from 1957 to 1966. This article is about the American TV series 'Police Story' for the Jackie Chan film see Police Story (film, for the Roddenberry pilot see Police The Rockford Files is an American Detective ( Private investigator) Television Drama that had its first run on the Hawaii Five-O is an American Television series that starred Jack Lord and James MacArthur as detectives for a fictional Hawaii Diagnosis Murder is a mystery / medical / Crime drama Television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr Matlock was a long-running American Television Legal drama. The show ran from September 23, 1986 to May DeBenedictis has been nominated for Emmy Awards nine times, most recently in 1996, for composing but has never won. He is the father of musician Dean DeBenedictis. Dean De Benedictis is an American Composer, Musician, Performer, and producer of experimental and alternative music