Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown

Directing
🎂 1937-12-01 (80 years old at death)
✝️ 2017-12-10
📍 San Francisco, California, U.S.
👤 Male
🎬 13 Movies
🔗 IMDb
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 Endl ...
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Filmography (13 movies)

Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St.Francis
Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St.Francis
2023
as Self
A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story
A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story
2020
as Self
The Search for Freedom
The Search for Freedom
2015
as Self (archive footage)
I Am Steve McQueen
I Am Steve McQueen
2014
as Self
SpongeBob vs. the Big One
SpongeBob vs. the Big One
2009
as Narrator (voice)
Step Into Liquid
Step Into Liquid
2003
as Himself
The Endless Summer Revisited
The Endless Summer Revisited
2000
as Self
The Endless Summer II
The Endless Summer II
1994
as Narrator
On Any Sunday
On Any Sunday
1971
as Narrator (voice)
The Endless Summer
The Endless Summer
1966
as Narrator
Search for Surf
Search for Surf
1961
as Self - Narrator
Barefoot Adventure
Barefoot Adventure
1960
as Himself / Narrator
Slippery When Wet
Slippery When Wet
1958
as Narrator