Bruce Brown
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-12-01 (80 years old)
Deathday
2017-12-10
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Also known As
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Bruce Brown
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 1...
Acting
1971
as Narrator (voice)
2003
as Himself
2009
as Narrator (voice)
1961
as Self - Narrator
1994
as Narrator
1958
as Narrator
1960
as Himself / Narrator
2000
as Self
1966
as Narrator
2015
as Self (archive footage)
2014
as Self
Production
1966
as Author
1966
as Producer
1966
as Director
1994
as Director
1971
as Director
2011
as Writer
1960
as Director
1958
as Director of Photography
1958
as Director
1958
as Writer
1960
as Writer
1960
as Director of Photography
1960
as Editor
1958
as Editor
1966
as Editor
1966
as Director of Photography
1994
as Writer
1994
as Editor
2000
as Executive Producer
1971
as Producer
1961
as Director
2014
as Executive Producer
1959
as Director
1962
as Director
1961
as Director
1966
as Director
1964
as Director
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