Benji is the name of a dog who has been the focus of several movies from 1974 through the 2000s. It is also the title of the first film in the Benji franchise. The eponymous canine character is a ...

Camp had nearly no Hollywood experience before he raised $500,000 to make the first "Benji" film, a family movie about a lovable mutt who saves a pair of children from kidnappers. Higgins the dog ...

Joe Camp, the writer, director and producer who taught that old dog Hollywood new tricks about animal movies as the creative force behind the 1974 franchise-spawning Benji, has died. He was 84.