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Bruce Brown

Highest Rated: 100% The Endless Summer (1966)

Lowest Rated: 50% The Endless Summer II (1994)

Birthday: Dec 1, 1937

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA

Dedicated surfer and occasional filmmaker, Bruce Brown ignited an international surfing craze with his 1966 documentary classic, "Endless Summer" (1966). Designated the "Chairman of the Boards" by "Entertainment Weekly," he gained fame and fortune by doing it his way. Brown started out shooting silent footage of his friends surfing off the shore of his native southern California. An instinctual showman, he began screening his little movies at local high schools, providing on-site narration and a tape deck soundtrack. Brown went on to raise a $50,000 budget to undertake a much more ambitious project. Equipped with a sturdy windup 16mm Bolex camera, he teamed up with two teen surfers, Robert August and Mike Hynson, to film a quasi-spiritual quest around the world in search of perfect wave. Their trek led them to Malibu, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii. "Endless Summer" boasted extraordinary images and a beguiling innocence. This low-budget and initially self-distributed documentary eventually grossed $30 million.

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Highest rated movies

100% 91% The Endless Summer
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83% 85% On Any Sunday
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80% 92% Step Into Liquid
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67% 56% Tomorrow Night
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50% 93% The Endless Summer II
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50% 86% On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
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Waterlogged
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40% Surf Crazy
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90% The Search for Freedom
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A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story Unknown (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet 90% The Search for Freedom Unknown (Character) - 2015
50% 86% On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter Executive Producer $507.3K 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lizard Boy Sheriff Johnson (Character),
Screenwriter
- 2011
80% 92% Step Into Liquid Executive Producer $3.7M 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Streetwise Director - 1998
67% 56% Tomorrow Night Clean (Character) - 1998
50% 93% The Endless Summer II Unknown (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
$2.1M 1994
83% 85% On Any Sunday Narrator,
Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 1971
100% 91% The Endless Summer Narrator,
Director,
Writer,
Producer,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Waterlogged Narrator,
Director,
Screenwriter
- 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Surfing Hollow Days Unknown (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter
- 1961
No Score Yet 60% Barefoot Adventure Narrator,
Director
- 1960
No Score Yet 40% Surf Crazy Narrator,
Director,
Writer,
Producer,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 1959
No Score Yet 80% Slippery When Wet Narrator,
Director,
Writer,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 1958

TV

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No Score Yet 68% SpongeBob SquarePants Narrator 2009