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Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown

Director · Born 1937-12-01 · San Francisco, California, U.S.

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Biography

Bruce Brown (born December 1, 1937 - December 10, 2017) was an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown. His surfing films are Slippery When Wet (1958), Surf Crazy (1959), Barefoot Adventure (1960), Surfing Hollow Days (1961), Waterlogged (1962), and his most well known film, The Endless Summer (1964) which received a nationwide theatrical release in 1966. Considered among the most influential in the genre, The Endless Summer follows surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August around the world. Thirty years later Brown would film The Endless Summer II with his son in 1994. He also made a number of short films including The Wet Set, featuring the Hobie-MacGregor Sportswear Surf Team and one of the earliest skateboarding films, America's Newest Sport, presenting the Hobie Super Surfer Skateboard Team. These short films along with some unused footage from The Endless Summer were included in the DVD Surfin' Shorts, as part of the Golden Years of Surf collection. Brown has gone beyond surfing a few times with the ski film, The Incredible Pair of Skis (1967), a film about motorcycle sport, On Any Sunday (1971) wh…

Directed

  1. The Endless Summer (1966) — Director
  2. The Endless Summer II (1994) — Director
  3. On Any Sunday (1971) — Director
  4. Surf Crazy (1959) — Director
  5. Slippery When Wet (1958) — Director
  6. Surfing Hollow Days (1961) — Director
  7. Surfin' Shorts (1964) — Director
  8. Barefoot Adventure (1960) — Director
  9. Water-Logged (1962) — Director
  10. America's Newest Sport (1966) — Director
  11. Search for Surf (1961) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) — Narrator (voice)
  2. The Endless Summer (1966) — Narrator
  3. Step Into Liquid (2003) — Himself
  4. I Am Steve McQueen (2014) — Self
  5. The Endless Summer II (1994) — Narrator
  6. On Any Sunday (1971) — Narrator (voice)
  7. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
  8. The Search for Freedom (2015) — Self (archive footage)
  9. SpongeBob vs. the Big One (2009) — Narrator (voice)
  10. The Endless Summer Revisited (2000) — Self
  11. Slippery When Wet (1958) — Narrator
  12. Barefoot Adventure (1960) — Himself / Narrator
  13. Search for Surf (1961) — Self - Narrator
  14. A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story (2020) — Self
  15. Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St. Francis (2023) — Self