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
- Home & Away - Naturally as Self
- Portugal's Monte Naturista ... (Director)
2012
- Figleaf Villas - Naturally ... (Director)
2011
- Suze's Naked Summer as Self
2010
- The Algarve Revisited - Naturally ... (Director)
2009
- Unwind - Naturally ... (Producer)
- SW England - Naturally as Self
2008
- Fuerteventura - Naturally as Self - Presenter
- Kefalonia Revisited - Naturally ... (Director)
2007
- Alice, Joss & Sam - Naturally as Self
- France 4 Naturism ... (Director)
- Discovering Massage Naturally as Self
- Kefalonia Naturally - Vassaliki ... (Producer)
2006
- We Love Arna - Naturally as Self
- More Spain - Naturally as Self
- Bare Beaches of the World as Self
- Presenting Naturism - Naturally as Self
2005
- The Algarve - Naturally as Self
- Catalunya - Naturally as Self
- Britain's Bare Beaches as Self
2004
- Alice's Naked Summer as Self
- Costa Del Sol - Naturally ... (Producer)
- Alice's Naked Summer - Part II ... (Director)
2003
- Palm Springs Naturally as Self - Presenter
- Florida - Naturally as Self
- Euronat as Self
- Charlie's Cover Girls ... (Director of Photography)
- Get Liberated - Get Naked as Self
2002
- Nudes in the News as Self
- Costa Natura - Naked Village as Self
- Fun in the Sun - Naturally ... (Producer)
2001
- 2001 - Naturally as Self
- Mediterranean France - Naturally as Self - Presenter
- Mediterranean Spain - Naturally ... (Director)
2000
- Ten Naked Years as Self - Presenter
- Dare to Go Bare ... (Director of Photography)
- Crete - Naturally: Vritomartis as Self - Presenter
1999
- Happiness Is A Brown Bum! as Self
- A Summer Breeze as Self
- A Canarian Dream as Self
1998
- Full Frontal in Flip Flops as Self
- Corsica, Naturally as Self
- Clothed by the Sun as Self
- Candidly Koversada as Self - Presenter
1997
- Formentera - Naturally ... (Director)
- Lazily Languedoc ... (Director)
- Free Sun Naturally as Self - Presenter
1996
- Why Go Naked? as Self -Presenter
- Cast Off With Cockatoo ... (Director)
- Carefreely Corfu as Self
- Naked Video Shoot as Self
1995
- Barely Balearic as Self
- Freedom of Naturism as Self - Presenter
- Cretan Kalypso - The Naked Truth as Self
1994
- Cap d'Agde, Naked City as Self (uncredited)
- Let's Get Naked Great Britain as Self
- Naked Enchantment as Self
- In Harmony with Nature (The World of Naturism) as Self
1993
- Naturism UK as Self - Presenter
- 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
- Simone and 1000 Flowers ... (Director)
- Alison: Over the Moon ... (Director)
- The Girl with No Name ... (Director of Photography)
1990
- Perfect Exposure ... (Director)
- Hitch-Hike ... (Director)