Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown was an American documentary filmmaker and an early pioneer of the surf film. Born in San Francisco, he took up an 8mm camera in 1955, photographing surfers in Honolulu while serving in the Navy, and later dropped out of Long Beach City College to work as a lifeguard. His early films included Slippery When Wet (1958), Surf Crazy, Barefoot Adventure, Surfing Hollow Days and Waterlogged. His best known work, The Endless Summer (1964), followed Mike Hynson and Robert August as they traveled the world and got a nationwide theatrical release in 1966. He revisited it with The Endless Summer II (1994), and he also made the motorcycle documentaries On Any Sunday (1971), widely regarded as one of the best motorcycle documentaries, On Any Sunday II, Baja 1000 Classic and On Any Sunday: Revisited. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Surfers' Hall of Fame in 2009.