Acting credits
14
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Bruce Brown
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.1
Moderate attention
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Movies: 20Series: 1Crew credits: 14
TMDB ID: 86
IMDb ID: nm0113164
Known for: Directing
Born: December 1, 1937
Died: December 10, 2017
Age: 80
Place of birth: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1958 - 2023
Years active: 66
Average TMDB rating: 6.93
Wikidata: Q991554
Other jobs
Director (9)Executive Producer (2)Author (1)Director of Photography (1)Writer (1)
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) 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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Bruce Brown.
Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of St.Francis
as Self
2023 Movie
A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story
as Self
2020 Movie
7.2
The Search for Freedom
as Self (archive footage)
2015 Movie
6.7
On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
Executive Producer
2014 Movie
6.1
I Am Steve McQueen
as Self
2014 Movie
2.0
Lizard Boy
Writer
2011 Movie
7.2
SpongeBob vs. the Big One
as Narrator (voice)
2009 Movie
7.2
Step Into Liquid
as Himself
2003 Movie
7.0
The Endless Summer Revisited
as Self
2000 Movie
7.5
The Endless Summer II
as Narrator
1994 Movie
6.8
On Any Sunday
as Narrator (voice)
1971 Movie
America's Newest Sport
Director
1966 Movie
7.1
The Endless Summer
as Narrator
1966 Movie
Surfin' Shorts
Director
1964 Movie
Water-Logged
Director
1962 Movie
7.0
Surfing Hollow Days
Director
1961 Movie
Search for Surf
as Self - Narrator
1961 Movie
Barefoot Adventure
as Himself / Narrator
1960 Movie
7.5
Surf Crazy
Director
1959 Movie
1.0
Slippery When Wet
as Narrator
1958 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Bruce Brown.
