Bruce Brown
Birthday
1937/12/01
Day of death
2017/12/10 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Also know as
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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 Endl...Read more
Acting
(1971) On Any Sunday
as Narrator (voice)
(2003) Step Into Liquid
as Himself
(2009) SpongeBob vs. the Big One
as Narrator (voice)
(1961) Search for Surf
as Self - Narrator
(2020) A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story
as Self
(2023) Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of St.Francis
as Self
(1994) The Endless Summer II
as Narrator
(1960) Barefoot Adventure
as Himself / Narrator
(1958) Slippery When Wet
as Narrator
(2000) The Endless Summer Revisited
as Self
(1966) The Endless Summer
as Narrator
(2015) The Search for Freedom
as Self (archive footage)
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest