Bruce Brown

Darsteller, Produzent, Regie, Schnitt, Autor

1. Dezember 1937 — 10. Dezember 2017 (80 Jahre)
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 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 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.

Filme & Serien auf plex.tv

  • The Endless Summer
    The Endless Summer1966
  • Step Into Liquid - Im Bann der Riesenwellen
    Step Into Liquid - Im Bann der Riesenwellen2003
  • Teufelskerle auf heißen Feuerstühlen
    Teufelskerle auf heißen Feuerstühlen1971

Bekannt aus

  • The Endless Summer
    The Endless Summer1966
  • The Endless Summer 2
    The Endless Summer 21994
  • Teufelskerle auf heißen Feuerstühlen
    Teufelskerle auf heißen Feuerstühlen1971
  • Step Into Liquid - Im Bann der Riesenwellen
    Step Into Liquid - Im Bann der Riesenwellen2003
  • Lizard Boy
    Lizard Boy2011
  • On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
    On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter2014
  • The Endless Summer Revisited
    The Endless Summer Revisited2000
  • Barefoot Adventure
    Barefoot Adventure1960
  • Slippery When Wet
    Slippery When Wet1958
  • Surfing Hollow Days
    Surfing Hollow Days1961
  • Surf Crazy
    Surf Crazy1959
  • Water-Logged
    Water-Logged1962

Filmografie

2014
1999
SpongeBob SquarePants · as Narrator
1994
The Endless Summer 2 · as Narrator
1971
On Any Sunday · as Narrator (voice)auf plex.tv
1966
The Endless Summer · as Narratorauf plex.tv
1962
Water-Logged · as Narrator
1961
Surfing Hollow Days · as Narrator
1959
Surf Crazy · as Narrator
1958
Slippery When Wet · as Narrator

2014
On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter · as Executive Producer
2003
Step Into Liquid · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv
2000
The Endless Summer Revisited · as Executive Producer
1971
On Any Sundayauf plex.tv
1966
1959

2021
2020
2019
2015
The Search for Freedom · as Self (archive Footage)
2014
I Am Steve McQueen · as Selfauf plex.tv
2003
Step Into Liquid · as Himselfauf plex.tv
2001
2000
1986
1968
The Dick Cavett Show · as Self - Guestauf plex.tv
1962
1960
Barefoot Adventure · as Himself / Narrator

1971
On Any Sunday · as Cinematographerauf plex.tv
1971
On Any Sunday · as Written Byauf plex.tv
1966
The Endless Summer · as Director Of Photographyauf plex.tv
1966
The Endless Summer · as Authorauf plex.tv
1962
Water-Logged · as Cinematographer
1961
Surfing Hollow Days · as Cinematographer
1960
Barefoot Adventure · as Director Of Photography
1959
Surf Crazy · as Cinematographer
1958
Slippery When Wet · as Director Of Photography