Bruce Brown

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 HobieMacGregor Sportswear Surf Team and one of the earliest skateboarding films Americas 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