Tom Curren
Also Known As: Thomas Roland Curren, Thomas Curren
Biography: By the time Curren hit the ASP World Tour in 1983, he was taking out pros such as Rabbit Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson, and Cheyne Horan. He was world champion three times - 1985, 1986, 1990, and won 33 championship events in his professional career, the latter being a total only bettered by Kelly Slater. He achieved status both for his competitive drive and for his surfing style. He made a decision to retire from competitive surfing in the mid-1990s. In 1990, at Margaret River, Curren rode a wave all the way from the take-off zone to the Rivermouth - roughly a 1200-foot ride. He then had to walk back to Mainbreak from the Rivermouth to re-enter the surf. Those who saw it say it has never been repeated, in or out of competition.[1] Curren still surfs in contests on the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS.) He is also often invited to surf in World Championship Tour (WCT) trials or contests as a wildcard. He has competed in the Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am Surf Contest[2] for 3 years in a row, surfing on the Switchfoot team. In his five-year rise to World Surfing Champion Curren appeared under a contract with surfboard company Channel Islands. He co-produced and rode pro surfboard models such as the Black Beauty and the Red Beauty. [3] Early in his professional career he signed with OP swimwear then later changed sponsorships deals to Rip Curl Wetsuits and Clothing.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Birthday: July 03, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Blazing Boards
Overview: Shot completely with 16mm film. The original classic cinema surf flick, featuring Hawaii, Australia, California, Mexico and Exotic Isles. “Blazing Boards” captures the very essence of what riding waves is all about. If you love the ocean then be sure to check out the best surf film of the 1980’s. “It never drags, it’s full of red hot surfing. Bystrom satisfies the hunger for high performance surfing” – Surfer Magazine “The best surf film since Endless Summer” – Channel 7 TV Brisbane. “Too savage for words” – Surfing Magazine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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Raw Irons
Overview: Witness the legendary Andy Irons killing it on the North Shore circa the mid-late 90s. "Raw Irons" is an MCD production. A video profile of Surfer Andy Irons.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-20
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Bending Colours
Overview: Bending Colours is a moving portrait of Jordy Smith. This is not a biopic. It’s a never-before seen insight into game changing next level surfing. From an average school kid in South Africa, a cocky tour rookie, to the professional world title threat he is today, Bending Colours tells a story. No one does progressive surfing or the hi-fi quite like Kai Neville. The fit is obvious. You know Modern Collective. You know the new breed of surfer, soundtrack and star it’s created. This next collaboration will further redefine and change the game.
Genres: Action Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Idiosyncracies
Overview: An exploration of unique minds in surfing. Idiosyncrasies presents an exploration of some truly unique minds, revealing what's behind the impact of some of surfing's most influential underground individuals. Through their art and music, surf craft and lifestyle choices, Patrick Trefz offers an intimate look into the vital and intriguing lives of these iconoclasts ranging from twenty-year old Leann Curren to sixty-one year old Harbor Bill Mulcoy. Idiosyncrasies reveals its subjects' unique characteristics as they manifest both on land and in the water.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Thread
Overview: Surfing well is a lifetime's pursuit that's expressed in subtleties: the pull of shoulders, the timing of breath. Unfolding on distant shores, each wave and location with its own flavor, Thread sews together experiences, offering a meditative look at the most fluid of the arts. Featuring Joel Tudor, Taylor Knox, the Long brothers, The Campbell Brothers, Ray Barbee, Joe Curren, Tom Carroll, Jim Denevan and more.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Bustin' Down the Door
Overview: During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core. A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed everything and put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture, and an industry that is today worth billions of dollars and has captured the imagination of the world. With a radical new approach and a brash colonial attitude, these surfers crashed headlong into a culture that was not ready for revolution. Surfing was never to be the same again.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-25
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Surfing Morning of the Sun
Overview: Stunning contemporary surfing mixed with classic surfing from the 1970's. A inspirational homage to the classic surf films of the 1970's like Morning of the Earth. This is one the finest of its genre and noted for the original score.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-19
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One California Day
Overview: Follow the lives of eight California surfers in the newly released film, "One California Day." Produced by Builde Worldwide, and Co-Directed by Mark Jeremias (maker of DRIVE) and Jason Baffa (maker of Singlefin:Yellow), this super 16mm film stars Joel Tudor, Chris Malloy, Alex Knost, Tyler Warren, Jimmy Gamboa, Joe Curren, Dane Perlee, and Tyler Hatzikian, with special appearances by Skip Frye, Dan and Keith Malloy, Tom Curren, Gerg Noll, and Lance Carson
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Surfer's Journal - Biographies Vol 1 - Curren/Slater
Overview: Tom Curren and Kelly Slater are surfing's most important figures in the last 20 years. Both surfers dominated their eras competitively: Tom in the 80s; Kelly in the 90s.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Walking on Water
Overview: When Bryan Jennings (Founder/Director of Walking On Water) was fourteen years old he was taken on his first surf trip by a local professional surfer. This trip had a lasting effect on his life. In Walking On Water Bryan returns the favor as he takes Tyler and Luke literally around the world in hopes that they too will forever be changed. Along the way they meet up with three-time world champion surfer Tom Curren, teen shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton, top professional surfers C.J. and Damien Hobgood, and many others. From the makers of The Outsiders and Noahs Arc comes a story about finding faith on the journey of a lifetime.
Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-10
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Curren Trials to Title
Overview: Like all sports, surfing has always had it's heroes, but while many come and go, true heroes are never forgotten. Their legends only grow. In the world of surfing, no surfer proves this point better than Californias classic son, Tom Curren. While Curren came to power in the mid 80's with back to back World Titles, he became a legend in 1990. Ater a three year hiatus he reappeared and started from scratch, dominating the world of pro surfing in a way that can never be repeated. It's hard to pinpoint why Curren's legacy outweighs even his three incredible titles. Kelly Slater has long, since passed him and others like Andy Irons have matched it. Maybe it's the fact that Curren won al his titles in front o huge crowds instead of on remote reefs. Perhaps its his reluctant hero appeal that adds to his mystique. Or maybe its the fact that to this day he still holds the record for more tour victories over any other surfer... even Slater.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Free Scrubber
Overview: An inside look at surfings most specialist genius
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Billabong Challenge: Nine 9 Lives
Overview: The last of the BILLABONG CHALLENGE series; Challenge Four, in Indo, and Challenge Five, in Australia. Indo did not deliver the surf necessary to complete one round so it was cancelled until the following year. Starring Rob Machado, Kalani Robb, Luke Egan, Shane Dorian, Tom Curren, Sunny Garcia, Mark Occhilupo, Taylor Knox, Pancho Sullivan, with appearances by Margo and Kelly Slater. Winner of "Surfer Magazine’s Video of the Year Award" 2000 Best Cinematography Award.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Search 3: Beyond the Boundaries
Overview: The Search 3 - Beyond the Boundaries (1994)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-01
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Inner Vision From The Search
Overview: A journey that takes you through unchartered waters to locations never surfed before…Exploration, epic waves and award winning performances by some of the world’s best surfers. Featuring incredible footage by world renowned cinematographer Jon Frank and directed by Brendan Macaloon, INNERVISIONS from The Search takes a look at the search for perfect, uncrowded waves in remote corners of the globe.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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805: Eight Zero Five
Overview: The finest surfers from Santa Barbara and Ventura come to life in 805 the movie. Filmed completely in Santa Barbara and Ventura, California. Highlights: Bobby Martinez steals the show with his ten second tube rides, filmed during one of the best winters in Santa Barbara history. Huge and perfect tubes at Sandspit.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Alternative Surf Craft
Overview: Alternative Surf Craft profiles the surfers on the edge of the sport. These surfers carve their own path riding unique and alternative surf craft. See surfers like Tom Curren, Dane Reynolds, Joel Tudor, Beau Young and Trevor Gordon carve new insights into the sport of surfing.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-21
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Bliss
Overview: Bliss features Ratboy antics flying all over the Santa Cruz. Also great stuff of Kirra in Australia. The waves are just below sea level and grinding. Tom Curren also has an amazing segment where he jumps off a pier into thirty foot surf in Santa Barbara. As well as shaping a surfboard with eight fins and surfing it backwards and forwards! Awesome!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Kill 3
Overview: The Kill 3 is almost two hours long, making it the longest Kill movie. Pomer includes not only mass footage, but also behind-the-scenes fun and games. Ratboy goofs around hunting lizards. Tyler Smith catches a fish and releases it after getting it stoned. In addition, there are fun trips to Mexico and Hawaii. Pomer had just cemented a relationship with the legendary surfer Tom Curren and it shows in the 100% exclusive footage of Curren surfing at his own secret point break. Pomer captured the reclusive Curren in his element by riding bikes with him to this lost point and surfing with him before breaking out the camera. It offers a glimpse of Curren that can be found nowhere else: Curren surfing all by himself in his own nirvana. This is special footage of a time that is long gone. And dont forget about the Ratboy Shove-It. The first ever recorded.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Missing
Overview: Taylor Steele’s brand new film – “Missing” – puts ASP World Champion Mick Fanning in some of the most radical places on the planet alongside his good friends John John Florence, Jordy Smith, Matt Wilkinson, and Tom Curren. Under the direction of the world-renowned film-maker, the project takes Mick Fanning out of the competition world of the ASP, gives him a boarding pass with a blank destination and for 21 days he is relocated all over the world with only a passport, suitcase and surfboard at his disposal. As a result, the surfing is special, raw, and some of the best that you’ll see on screen this year. From Africa and Ireland to Central America and Spain, the experience literally is life changing for Mick Fanning.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-18
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The White Album
Overview: TK8-The White Album is fast music and eye popping surfing action. Thrilling and entertaining surfing with stars and legends. Includes the best action from the last twenty years of airs, tubes and carves. Edited together with the style of modern DJ.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-18
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Spoons: A Santa Barbara Story
Overview: When Renny Yater and George Greenough made surfboards for one of the best waves on earth, they helped kickstart a revolution and influence generations of surfers and shapers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-09
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One Track Mind
Overview: One Track Mind explores the technical side and ambitious nature of surfing’s most competitive individuals and their drive to push the limits and succeed. Shot on 16mm, the film spans generations and styles in search of the common thread that makes them the best. The most influential people in modern surfing tell stories about their best boards, the surfers they hail and the waves they live to ride.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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One Step Beyond
Overview: Before there was Momentum, Taylor Steele released ONE STEP BEYOND (1991). This was the follow-up to his high school project Seaside, filmed entirely at Seaside in Cardiff...so the natural progression was to go "one step beyond." The film features his first section-based edits and his first full section with a young Kelly Slater. Also of note are sections with Tom Curren, Brad Gerlach and Johnny Boy Gomes, as well as a classic wipeouts compilation.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Islands in the Stream
Overview: 5 surfers travel from Tahiti to the Tuamotu atolls by boat to experience unbelievable waves by themselves. whether they were a world champion or free surfer, they had an amazing time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-21
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