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Bruce Brown

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Bruce Brown (born December 1, 1937 in San Francisco, California) is 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 were 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 has 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) which is held in high regard as one of the best motorcycle documentaries of all time, and a documentary about extreme sports, The Edge (1975), On Any Sunday II (1981) Baja 1000 Classic (1991), and On Any Sunday, revisited (2000) He made a guest appearance in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode SpongeBob vs. The Big One. Brown is a 2009 inductee into the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Brown, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Dec 1, 1937 In San Francisco, California, U.S.
Movie/TV Credits:
21
First Appeared:
In the movie Slippery When Wet 1958-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story 2020-08-19
Known For
Poster of Step Into Liquid
Poster of The Endless Summer
Poster of Barefoot Adventure
Poster of Slippery When Wet
Filmography
Movie A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story Self 2020-08-19
Movie Spoons: A Santa Barbara Story Self 2019-01-09
Movie The Search for Freedom Self (archive footage) 2015-08-06
Movie SpongeBob vs. the Big One Narrator (voice) 2009-04-17
Movie Step Into Liquid Himself 2003-08-05
Movie On Any Sunday: Motocross, Malcolm & More 2001-12-11
Movie Dark Stories: Tales from Beyond the Grave Hoon Car Driver (segment 'Headlong') 2001-03-13
Movie The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Radio Announcer 2001-08-05
Movie The Endless Summer Revisited Self 2000-08-08
Movie Tomorrow Night Clean 1998-01-23
Movie Zipperface Brewster Harris 1992-07-15
Movie Eddie and the Cruisers M.C. at El Marko 1983-09-23
Movie Death Wish Newsman (uncredited) 1974-07-24
Movie On Any Sunday Narrator 1971-07-28
Movie The Anderson Tapes Policeman (uncredited) 1971-06-17
Movie Minnie and Moskowitz Husband (uncredited) 1971-12-22
Movie The Endless Summer Narrator 1966-06-15
Movie Passion Holiday Frank 1963-10-01
Movie Search for Surf Self - Narrator 1961-01-01
Movie Barefoot Adventure Himself / Narrator 1960-06-30
Movie Slippery When Wet Narrator 1958-01-01