Highest rated movie: The Endless Summer (1966)
Lowest rated movie: Step Into Liquid (2003)
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Movies starring Robert August have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 79%.
The Endless Summer - released in 1966 - is Robert August's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 144 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Robert August is Step Into Liquid - released in 2003 - with a score of 78% based on 193 reviews.
Robert August (born 1945) is an American surfer and surfboard shaper. Raised in Huntington Beach, CA he attended Huntington Beach High School where we was ASB President his senior year. He is most famous as one of the subjects of Bruce Brown's 1966 surf documentary The Endless Summer, along with his friend Mike Hynson. The film follows the two around the world pursuing their hobby during the California offseason, meeting other surfers and discussing surf culture.
August picked up surfing in the 1950s, when the sport's popularity had just begun to grow. His father, Blackie August, was also a noted surfer. His enthusiasm and his involvement in The Endless Summer influenced the growth of the sport over the following decades. His surfboards are sold under the Robert August Surfboards brand and are produced by Surftech, a company that manufactures lightweight epoxy surfboards. He continues to travel the world promoting surfing, and in 1994, he was involved in the filming of The Endless Summer II, in which surfers Pat O'Connell and Robert "Wingnut" Weaver retrace the places visited by August and Hynson thirty years earlier. He took part in the film Step Into Liquid.
Robert August has acted in films with Bruce Brown, Gerry Lopez, Kelly Slater and Laird Hamilton.
Robert August has worked with these film directors: Dana Brown and Bruce Brown.
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