David Anthony was a fashion photographer on Swinging Sixties Carnaby Street, who had a brief career as a singer, under the name "Charles Dickens."
Apparently Mr. Dickens released three singles: "That's the Way Love Goes" (1965), "I Stand Alone" (1966), and "So Much in Love" (1966).
In 1968, he was cast in the film
The Touchables (1968), a take on the American tv series
The Untouchables (1959-63).
The plot is minimal, just an excuse for some "hush-hush wink-wink" British naughtiness. Pop star Christian is kidnapped by four girls, who take him to a Buckmeister Fuller geodesic dome and then a merry-go-round, tie him up, and have sex with him. Meanwhile his friends are trying to rescue him, and there are some gangsters.
It was directed by fashion photographer Robert Freeman, the Beatles' favorite photographer during the 1968s). The song "Norwegian Wood" was based on John Lennon's affair with Freeman's wife.
Other performers include Harry Baird as a gangster named Lily white, and professional wrestler Ricky Starr, who also took his shirt off for an episode of the American sitcom
Mr. Ed.
No gay content in the movie, and I can't find anything else out about David Anthony: there's another photographer AND another musician named David Anthony active now, plus celebrities named David Anthony Higgins, David Anthony Kennedy, and so on.
But this post is really about the fashion photographer turned actor stripped to his underwear and tied spreadeagle to a merry-go-round.
