Bruce Brown

Who is Bruce Brown?

Bruce Brown is an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown.

Brown's films include Slippery When Wet, Surf Crazy, Barefoot Adventure, Surfing Hollow Days, Waterlogged, and his most well known film, The Endless Summer 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 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.