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

• 2013Home & Away - Naturally — Self, Director, Producer
• 2013Portugal's Monte Naturista — Director, Producer
• 2012Figleaf Villas - Naturally — Director, Producer
• 2011Suze's Naked Summer — Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 2010The Algarve Revisited - Naturally — Director, Producer
• 2009SW England - Naturally — Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 2009Unwind - Naturally — Producer, Director
• 2008Fuerteventura - Naturally — Self - Presenter, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 2008Kefalonia Revisited - Naturally — Director, Producer
• 2007Alice, Joss & Sam - Naturally — Self, Producer, Director, Director of Photography
• 2007Discovering Massage Naturally — Self, Director, Producer
• 2007France 4 Naturism — Director, Producer
• 2007Kefalonia Naturally - Vassaliki — Producer, Director
• 2006Bare Beaches of the World — Self, Director, Producer
• 2006More Spain - Naturally — Self, Director, Producer
• 2006Presenting Naturism - Naturally — Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
• 2006We Love Arna - Naturally — Self, Producer, Director
• 2005Britain's Bare Beaches — Self, Director, Producer
• 2005Catalunya - Naturally — Self, Producer, Director
• 2005The Algarve - Naturally — Self, Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
• 2004Alice's Naked Summer — Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 2004Alice's Naked Summer - Part II — Camera Operator, Producer, Director, Director of Photography
• 2004Costa Del Sol - Naturally — Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 2003Charlie's Cover Girls — Director of Photography, Producer, Camera Operator
• 2003Euronat — Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 2003Florida - Naturally — Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 2003Get Liberated - Get Naked — Self, Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Camera Operator
• 2003Palm Springs Naturally — Self - Presenter, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Producer
• 2002Costa Natura - Naked Village — Self, Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
• 2002Fun in the Sun - Naturally — Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 20012001 - Naturally — Self, Director, Producer
• 2001Mediterranean France - Naturally — Self - Presenter, Director of Photography, Producer, Camera Operator
• 2001Mediterranean Spain - Naturally — Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
• 2000Crete - Naturally: Vritomartis — Self - Presenter, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Producer
• 2000Dare to Go Bare — Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Producer
• 2000Ten Naked Years — Self - Presenter, Director, Producer
• 1999A Canarian Dream — Self, Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 1999A Summer Breeze — Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
• 1999Happiness Is A Brown Bum! — Self, Director of Photography, Producer, Camera Operator
• 1998Candidly Koversada — Self - Presenter, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 1998Clothed by the Sun — Self, Producer, Director
• 1998Corsica, Naturally — Self, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Producer
• 1997Formentera - Naturally — Director, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Producer
• 1997Free Sun Naturally — Self - Presenter, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 1997Lazily Languedoc — Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
• 1996Carefreely Corfu — Self, Director, Producer
• 1996Cast Off With Cockatoo — Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Producer
• 1996Naked Video Shoot — Self, Director of Photography, Producer, Camera Operator
• 1996Why Go Naked? — Self -Presenter, Camera Operator, Producer, Director of Photography
• 1995Barely Balearic — Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 1995Cretan Kalypso - The Naked Truth — Self, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 1995Freedom of Naturism — Self - Presenter, Director of Photography, Producer, Camera Operator, Still Photographer
• 1994Cap d'Agde, Naked City — Self (uncredited), Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Producer
• 1994In Harmony with Nature (The World of Naturism) — Self, Producer, Director, Director of Photography
• 1994Let's Get Naked Great Britain — Self, Director of Photography, Producer, Camera Operator
• 1994Naked Enchantment — Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 1993Bareboat Odyssey — Director, Producer, Director of Photography
• 1993Naturism UK — Self - Presenter, Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Producer
• 1993Sun-Kissed Cover Girls — Camera Operator, Director, Director of Photography, Producer
• 1992Mermaid: A Flippant Tale — Self, Camera Operator, Producer, Director, Director of Photography
• 1992Naked Photo-Shoot — Director of Photography, Producer
• 1992Treasured Island — Photographer Charlie (uncredited), Director, Camera Operator, Producer, Director of Photography
• 1991Alison: Over the Moon — Camera Operator, Director, Director of Photography, Producer
• 1991Simone and 1000 Flowers — Director, Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Producer
• 1991The Girl with No Name — Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Producer
• 1990Hitch-Hike — Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Producer
• 1990Perfect Exposure — Director of Photography, Producer, Camera Operator

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Nudes in the News — Self
• 1998Full Frontal in Flip Flops — Self