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person_profile-Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Bruce Brown

Date of Birth:

Dec 01, 1937

Country of birth:

U.S.

Died:

Dec 10, 2017

Biography of

Bruce Brown

    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.

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Bruce Brown

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Filmography of

Bruce Brown

Found 10 Movies in total

The Endless Summer II

Narrator ( Actor )

Editor

... 1994

On Any Sunday

Narrator ( Actor )

Director

... 1971

The Endless Summer

Narrator ( Actor )

Editor

... 1966

... 1964

... 1962

... 1961

Search for Surf

Self - Narrator ( Actor )

Director

... 1961

Barefoot Adventure

Himself / Narrator ( Actor )

Editor

... 1960

Surf Crazy

Director

... 1959

Slippery When Wet

Narrator ( Actor )

Editor

... 1958