Thomas Lundy

Thomas Lundy is a dual Dutch/Canadian citizen and a YouTube vlogger as Thomas Lundy of Lundoxia. Born at St. Michael's Hospital on 30 Bond Street in Toronto Canada on 22 May 1972 (the same birthday as Laurence Olivier, Charles Aznavour and Richard Wagner), his first professional gig was as a calendar model at James Gardens in Etobicoke, Toronto in 1975, aged three. In the years that followed he attended auditions for television commercials with his father Neil Lundy, a radio announcer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC.) The release of Star Wars in 1977 had a deep impact on him, sparking a lifelong love for cinema. In 1980 Lundy moved to Lahr Schwarzwald, the Black Forest southwestern region of Germany, where his father was as a radio announcer for the Canadian Forces Network (CFN) at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB), which operated as part of the NATO Cold War effort between 1967 and 1994. At high school graduation at CFB Lahr in 1990, he was awarded a bursary for outstanding achievement in foreign languages. Lundy's interest in filmmaking was triggered upon purchasing a commemorative book about James Bond's 25th anniversary in 1987. He then rented and studied all James Bond films. Impressed by their kinetic montage sequences, production designs, high-octane scores, dramatic gravitas and narrative elements recalling the ancient Greek mythology of Homer (Achilles in The Iliad or Odysseus in The Odyssey), he eventually completed a short film entitled Top Agent in June 1989. Thomas Lundy also worked as a technician at Canadian Forces Network Lahr and in his free time used available studios to record his own original rap compositions, some of which were reviewed in the British monthly magazine Hip Hop Connection in 1991. That same year he also became a travel writer, with his commentary about Switzerland's 700th anniversary being published in Time and Newsweek magazines. Other periodicals in which Lundy contributed articles include the in-flight magazines of KLM Dutch airlines, Canada's Air Transat, The European Reporter and H&E Naturist; a selection of Thomas Lundy's print articles are available online at Issuu. In 1992 Lundy enjoyed a chance meeting in Dublin with actor Brian Dennehy during his run of the play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill, inspiring Lundy to land his first stage role as the third watchman in Romeo and Juliet at the Firkin Crane Theatre in Cork Ireland, where he also earned a bachelor degree in Spanish and French literature, phonetics, linguistics and translation in 1994. Moving to London later that year, he worked as a researcher for Worldwide Television News (WTN, later sold to the Associated Press, AP) at Camden Town. For a year and half in London Lundy did lots of auditions, including one for a Wagner opera as a tree trunk at The Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), a Guinness beer commercial and meeting film director Ken Russell for an unmade project. Shortly before leaving London, Lundy clinched his first feature film experience as an extra for the British film The Innocent Sleep, released in 1996. During his time in London Lundy was an active member of Dutch and British nudist clubs, publishing articles about his nudist adventures, also being interviewed on a women's radio station. Upon returning to Canada in 1995, Lundy was interviewed nude on French-speaking television by Quebec TV personality and actress Marie Turgeon on the weekly pop culture program VOLT! Lundy then obtained bit parts in student films and theatre plays such as Arsenic and Old Lace as an Irish cop and the musical South Pacific as Buzz Adams. He also worked as an extra, including the feature films 54 and Good Will Hunting, and as a stunt double for Dolph Lundgren in Blackjack. Lundy also launched the University of Toronto Nudists (UTN) in 1998, Canada's first official campus co-ed nude recreation club, where he obtained a bachelor degree in education. The University of Toronto Nudists (UTN) earned Lundy featured publicity in the Canadian news magazine Maclean's in 1999; he was also interviewed about it on dozens of U.S. radio stations, and on CIUT, the University of Toronto radio station with Louise Bak's show Sex City. In 2000 Lundy made what he is perhaps best known for, the satirical short film Nude Not, which won the Best First Film award at Hart House Film Board at the University of Toronto. Nude Not also enjoyed much attention in nudist magazines worldwide, including the world's oldest nudist magazine, the British monthly Health & Efficiency (known as H&E, founded in the year 1900). Also screening at various film festivals such as Molodist in Kiev and Darklight in Dublin, Nude Not was broadcast on Canal+ television for a year in France, Monaco, Mauritius and Switzerland. In 2001 Lundy was again interviewed on Canadian national television on CTV when segments were broadcast of Nude Not and his documentary The Man Who Never Had a Girlfriend, which eventually screened in 2004 in Estonia at the Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival. In 2014 Thomas Lundy was the subject of a feature biographical article in the U.S. quarterly N: Nude & Natural Magazine by Mark Storey of The Naturist Society. Nude Not landed Lundy the role as Albert in the Danish film All About Anna (released in November 2005, shot in February 2003), produced by Lars von Trier's Zentropa Productions. The film obtained notice for its realism and raw portrayal of human sexuality as inspired by the Danish Dogme 95 movement, although not an official Dogme 95 entry. Lundy gave extensive print interviews about this experience in the Norwegian women's monthly magazine Det Nye (April 2003) and in the 2007 book Secrets of Porn Star Sex by British author Marcelle Perks. Moving to The Netherlands in 2002 (where he had first come to play ice hockey in 1985), Lundy played in a progressive Dutch rock band for a few years as bassist, guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist; some of his songs still exist on Reverbnation as Lundoxia. He also taught foreign languages, film history and narrativity at the Amsterdam schools of fashion and economics. Between 2008 and 2020 he worked as a self-employed rickshaw driver, obtaining publicity in 2011 on Reuters news for a solar energy application. In 2020, Lundy was featured in an interview on YouTube entitled Naturist Filmmaker about his short films by The Naturist Living Show Podcast. That year Lundy also authored a stream of consciousness book entitled Thus Spokes Solar Rickshaw: Reflexions of a Rickshaw Puller. Lundy is also the author of a feature length screenplay about the life of Finnish Olympic runner Paavo Nurmi. In 2021, Lundy's short film Nude Not is the subject of an extensive film analysis in the book Cinema Au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film by Mark Storey.