John Whitmore (surfer)
John Whitmore( 30 March 1929 – 24 December 2001) pioneered the sport of surfing in South Africa.
His early career as an abalone and crayfish diver put him close to the ocean.
After having read about surfing in Hawaii in the late fifties, John became so enthused by the prospect of surfing he set off to build his own surfboards.
This led to the sport of surfing being introduced in South Africa, at Muizenberg and Sea Point.
Affectionately known to Capetonians as" die oom"( the uncle), Whitmore gave daily surf reports from his sea-front home bathroom window.
Refer to The Endless Summer II surf film.
Bert I. Gordon
Bert Ira Gordon( born September 24, 1922) is an American film director most famous for such science fiction and horror B-movies as" The Amazing Colossal Man" and" Village of the Giants".
Most of Gordon's work is in the idiom of giant monster films, for which he used rear- projection to create the special effects.
His nickname" Mister B.I.G." is a reference both to his initials and to his preference for directing movies featuring super- sized creatures.
Food of the Gods II
Food of the Gods II, sometimes referred to as Gnaw: Food of the Gods II as well as Food of the Gods Part 2, is a 1989 film that is a very loose sequel to the 1976 Bert I. Gordon film based on H.G. Wells' novel, "The Food of the Gods".
It is a sequel in name only, as its plot bears no relation to the 1976 film.
The Endless Summer II
The Endless Summer II is a 1994 film directed by Bruce Brown and is a sequel to his 1966 film" The Endless Summer".
In" The Endless Summer II", surfers Pat O'Connell and Robert" Wingnut" Weaver retrace the steps of Mike Hynson and Robert August.
It shows the growth and evolution of the surfing scene since the first film, which presented only classic longboard surfing.
O'Connell rides a shortboard, which was developed in the time between the two movies, and there are scenes of windsurfing and bodyboarding.
The film illustrates how far surfing had spread, with footage of surf sessions in France, South Africa, Costa Rica, Australia, Bali, Java, and even Alaska.
It also has a brief cameo appearance by morey surfer Felipe Zylbersztajn, Steve Irwin, and Mary, a crocodile from Irwin's Australia Zoo.
In 2003, Dana Brown, Bruce's son, made what is seen as the" third movieStep into Liquid".
It follows the evolution of surfing over the last 10 – 15 years from shortboarding to tow- in surfing.
Pat O'Connell (surfer)
Patrick O'Connell( born 1971) is a surfer and star alongside Robert" Wingnut" Weaver in Bruce Brown's" The Endless Summer II".
Robert August
Robert August( born 1945) is an American surfer and surfboard shaper.
Raised in Seal Beach, California, he attended Huntington Beach High School where he 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".
George Dodd (19th-century writer)
George Dodd( 18 September 1808 – 21 January 1881) was an English journalist and writer.
His best known work was" The Food of London"( 1856).
The Food of the Gods (film)
The Food of the Gods is a 1976 science fiction thriller film released by American International Pictures and was written, produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon.
"The Food of the Gods" starred Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, John McLiam, and Ida Lupino.
This film was loosely based on a portion of the H. G. Wells novel "The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth".
Michael Medved gave it the Golden Turkey Award for "Worst Rodent Movie of All Time".
Dana Brown
Dana Brown( born December 11, 1959 in Dana Point, California) is an American surfer and filmmaker, and is the oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown.
His films include" The Endless Summer Revisited"( 2000) which is made up of unused footage from" The Endless Summer"( 1964) and" The Endless Summer II"( 1994), as well as some original interviews with the stars of those films.
His first all- original film was" Step Into Liquid"( 2003) followed by a documentary on the Baja 1000 titled" Dust to Glory"( 2005).
In 2009, he debuted a new film called" Highwater" during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier; the film follows life on the North Shore and the surfers who compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing.
In 2014, the movie" On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter" continues the saga of motocross documentaries which began with the 1972 Academy Award for Documentary Feature nominated film" On Any Sunday"( 1971).
Bruce Brown
Bruce Alan Brown (December 1, 1937 – December 10, 2017) was an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film.
He was the father of filmmaker Dana Brown.

Question: Do both directors of films The Food Of The Gods (Film) and The Endless Summer Ii have the same nationality?
Answer: yes