Name Bruce Brown Role Film director | Spouse Patricia Brown Grandchildren Wes Brown | |
Born December 1, 1937 (age 86) ( 1937-12-01 ) San Francisco, California Occupation Documentary film director Children Dana Brown, Wade Brown, Nancy Brown Nominations Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Movies The Endless Summer, On Any Sunday, The Endless Summer II, Surf Crazy, Barefoot Adventure Similar People Dana Brown, Robert August, Malcolm Smith, Mert Lawwill, Robert Weaver | ||
A chat with endless summer director bruce brown
Bruce Brown (born December 1, 1937) is an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown.
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Brown's films include Slippery When Wet (1958), Surf Crazy (1959), Barefoot Adventure (1960), Surfing Hollow Days (1961), Waterlogged (1962), and his best known film, The Endless Summer (1966) 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 filmed 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 films about motorcycle sport, On Any Sunday (1971), which is held in high regard as one of the best motorcycle documentaries of all time, 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.