Charlie Simonds
Known For: Directing
Biography
Charlie Simonds was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1962 and saw active service in the Middle East. Having served for eight years in the regiment, he retired with the rank of captain before working for many years as a flying instructor. Then Charlie, a lifelong naturist, became an internationally acclaimed photographer and film producer of the naturist lifestyle. His writing and photographs have been published in numerous different naturist magazines around the world. Among the 214 covers of those featuring Charlie's photographs, 146 have appeared on the cover of H&E naturist alone in the past 33 years. Charlie and his company, Parafotos, have also produced 64 films about naturism and naturist resorts in the UK, USA, France, Greece, Spain, the Canaries, the Balearics, Turkey, Portugal, Croatia and the Caribbean.
Filmography
2013
- Portugal's Monte Naturista ... (Director)
- Home & Away - Naturally as Self
2012
- Figleaf Villas - Naturally ... (Director)
2011
- Suze's Naked Summer as Self
2010
- The Algarve Revisited - Naturally ... (Director)
2009
- SW England - Naturally as Self
- Unwind - Naturally ... (Producer)
2008
- Fuerteventura - Naturally as Self - Presenter
- Kefalonia Revisited - Naturally ... (Director)
2007
- Kefalonia Naturally - Vassaliki ... (Producer)
- Alice, Joss & Sam - Naturally as Self
- Discovering Massage Naturally as Self
- France 4 Naturism ... (Director)
2006
- Presenting Naturism - Naturally as Self
- Bare Beaches of the World as Self
- More Spain - Naturally as Self
- We Love Arna - Naturally as Self
2005
- Britain's Bare Beaches as Self
- The Algarve - Naturally as Self
- Catalunya - Naturally as Self
2004
- Alice's Naked Summer as Self
- Alice's Naked Summer - Part II ... (Director of Photography)
- Costa Del Sol - Naturally ... (Producer)
2003
- Euronat as Self
- Get Liberated - Get Naked as Self
- Florida - Naturally as Self
- Palm Springs Naturally as Self - Presenter
- Charlie's Cover Girls ... (Director of Photography)
2002
- Nudes in the News as Self
- Costa Natura - Naked Village as Self
- Fun in the Sun - Naturally ... (Producer)
2001
- Mediterranean France - Naturally as Self - Presenter
- 2001 - Naturally as Self
- Mediterranean Spain - Naturally ... (Director)
2000
- Crete - Naturally: Vritomartis as Self - Presenter
- Dare to Go Bare ... (Director of Photography)
- Ten Naked Years as Self - Presenter
1999
- Happiness Is A Brown Bum! as Self
- Candidly Koversada as Self - Presenter
- A Summer Breeze as Self
- A Canarian Dream as Self
1998
- Free Sun Naturally as Self - Presenter
- Corsica, Naturally ... (Camera Operator)
- Full Frontal in Flip Flops as Self
- Clothed by the Sun as Self
1997
- Lazily Languedoc ... (Director)
- Formentera - Naturally ... (Director)
1996
- Why Go Naked? as Self -Presenter
- Carefreely Corfu as Self
- Naked Video Shoot as Self
- Cast Off With Cockatoo ... (Director of Photography)
1995
- Naturism UK as Self - Presenter
- Cretan Kalypso - The Naked Truth as Self
- Barely Balearic as Self
1994
- Cap d'Agde, Naked City as Self (uncredited)
- Naked Enchantment as Self
- Freedom of Naturism as Self
- In Harmony with Nature (The World of Naturism) as Self
- Let's Get Naked Great Britain as Self
1993
- Bareboat Odyssey ... (Director)
- Sun-Kissed Cover Girls ... (Camera Operator)
1992
- Mermaid: A Flippant Tale as Self
- Treasured Island as Photographer Charlie (uncredited)
- Naked Photo-Shoot ... (Director of Photography)
1991
- Alison: Over the Moon ... (Director)
- Simone and 1000 Flowers ... (Camera Operator)
- The Girl with No Name ... (Director of Photography)
1990
- Hitch-Hike ... (Producer)
- Perfect Exposure ... (Producer)