Bruce BrownFilmography

Occupation:
Actor, Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

  • Dust to Glory

    Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Dana Brown, who created a visually striking look at the world of surfing in 2003's Step Into Liquid, hits dry land running in this portrait of the world of off-road racing. The Baja 1000 is one of the world's premier desert racing events; taking place both on and off the Read More

    4/1/05

  • Step Into Liquid

    Crew: Co-Executive Producer

    Actors: Jim Knost, Alex Knost, Dan Malloy, Chris Malloy, Keith Malloy

    Synopsis: Second generation surfing documentarian Dana Brown (son to Bruce Brown, who directed The Endless Summer 2) strikes out with his own original piece of filmmaking with his 2003 ode to the world's surfing enthusiasts entitled Step Into Liquid. Part travelogue, and part attempt to redefine surfing's Read More

    8/8/03

  • The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

    Actors: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, Elizabeth Berkley, John Schuck

    Synopsis: Writer and director Woody Allen returns to the Manhattan of the past with this romantic comedy set in 1940, the era of fedora hats and gumshoe detectives. Allen stars as C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator whose razor-sharp instincts have just led to the successful conclusion of another case Read More

    8/24/01

  • On Any Sunday: Motocross, Malcolm & More

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Synopsis: Nominated for Best Documentary at the 1971 Academy Awards, On Any Sunday is perhaps the best-known film ever made about the sport of motorcross. Three decades later, the filmmakers revisted the film for this 2001 follow-up. On Any Sunday: Motocross, Malcolm & More features footage left on the Read More

    2001

  • On Any Sunday Revisited

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Synopsis: In 1971, Bruce Brown and his son Dana filmed a documentary featuring the rev and roar of the racetrack. The project was a success, earning the men an Academy award nomination. Twenty-eight years later, the two are back with another ode to speed, On Any Sunday Revisited. While the video features Read More

    2000

  • The Endless Summer 2 - The Journey Continues

    Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

    Actors: Pat O'Connell, Robert 'Wingnut' Weaver

    Synopsis: Surfin' round the world is the focus of this documentary by Bruce Brown, the director famed for publicizing the sport in the 1960s. The documentary focuses upon two world-class California surfers: Patrick O'Connell, short board expert, and Robert "Wingnut" Weaver, long board surfer. The film Read More

    1994

  • On Any Sunday

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Bruce Brown, Steve McQueen, Mert Lawwill, Malcolm Smith

    Synopsis: With narration by co-producer Steve McQueen (who also races in some of its segments), director Bruce Brown (best-known for his poetic surfing documentary, Endless Summer) takes us into the incredibly varied and physically demanding world of motorcycle racing. Shot during a two-year period and Read More

    1971

  • The Endless Summer

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Mike Hynson, Patrick O'Connell, Robert August

    Synopsis: While Bruce Brown had been making films about surfing since the late 1950s, The Endless Summer was his first film to receive a nationwide release; it was also the first serious cinematic look at the sport to click with a mass audience. In his narration, Brown muses that if someone had enough time Read More

    1966

  • Surfin' Shorts

    Synopsis: Famed surfing documentary filmmaker Bruce Brown made short films, commercials, and worked in television before hitting it big with The Endless Summer. This video features three of these early works. The Wet Set is a film produced for Hobie-MacGregor Sportswear, which features surfers modeling Read More

    1963

  • Waterlogged

    Synopsis: To raise money for his surfing masterpiece The Endless Summer, director Bruce Brown edited together the best 90 minutes of surfing footage from his previous four films. The result is this compilation film, which features such great 1960s surfers as Phil Edwards, Pat Curren, Byron Kough, Peter Read More

    1962

  • Surfing Hollow Days

    Synopsis: Filmmaker Bruce Brown won international acclaim in 1966 with his film The Endless Summer, a fascinating and superbly-photographed documentary about three top-rank surfers following the summer (and the waves) around the globe. But The Endless Summer was hardly Brown's first film, and this Read More

    1961

  • Surf'n Shorts

    Crew: Director, Producer

    1960

  • Barefoot Adventure

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This surfing classic from Bruce Brown features wave riding action from Ala Moana, Makaha, Classic Trestles, Huntington Pier, Steamer Lane, Waimea, and other surfing hot spots. Original soundtrack from jazz artist Bud Shank.





    ~ Heather M. Fierst, All Movie Guide Read More

    1960

  • Surf Crazy

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Synopsis: Travel the Pacific coast in search of the perfect wave. Director Bruce Brown's second surf film visits the surf at Rincon and Cottons in California, as well as Waimea and Sunset in Hawaii. See Joey Caball and Donald Takayama ride Velzyland. ~ Heather M. Fierst, All Movie Guide Read More

    1959

  • Slippery When Wet

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In 1966, Bruce Brown made the definitive movie about surfing, The Endless Summer, but in 1958 he was a lifeguard by day who at night swept up a surfboard shop owned by a guy named Dale Velzy. Brown also had an 8mm movie camera and had made some amateur movies of fellow surfers in action; Velzy Read More

    1958

  • Bruce Brown: Golden Years of Surf Collection

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