Bruce Brown

Known for DirectingBorn 1937-12-01Died 2017-12-10San Francisco, California, U.S.

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Water-Logged

Surfin' Shorts

Barefoot Adventure

The Endless Summer II

The Search for Freedom

SpongeBob vs. the Big One

Surf Crazy

The Endless Summer Revisited

Step Into Liquid

On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter

The Endless Summer

On Any Sunday

Surfing Hollow Days

The Dick Cavett Show

I Am Steve McQueen

Slippery When Wet

Lizard Boy

Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St. Francis

A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story

America's Newest Sport

Search for Surf