Director
Bruce Brown
88 years · San Francisco, California, U.S. · 19 films
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) 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 was a 2009 inductee into the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California.
Best known for
Filmography 19
Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St. Francis
2023 · Self
On Kanopy
A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story
2020 · Self
On Tubi TV
The Search for Freedom
2015 · Self (archive footage)
On fuboTV
I Am Steve McQueen
2014 · Self
On Plex
Lizard Boy
2011 · Writer
On Mometu
SpongeBob vs. the Big One
2009 · Narrator (voice)
Step Into Liquid
2003 · Himself
On Plex
The Endless Summer Revisited
2000 · Self
On Tubi TV
The Endless Summer II
1994 · Narrator, Director
On Any Sunday
1971 · Narrator (voice), Director
On Plex
America's Newest Sport
1966 · Director
The Endless Summer
1966 · Narrator, Director
On Philo
Surfin' Shorts
1964 · Director
Water-Logged
1962 · Director
Surfing Hollow Days
1961 · Director
Search for Surf
1961 · Self - Narrator, Director
On The Surf Network Amazon Channel
Barefoot Adventure
1960 · Himself / Narrator, Director
Surf Crazy
1959 · Director
On The Surf Network Amazon Channel
Slippery When Wet
1958 · Narrator, Director