- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Born in Montreal, Canada. Is the brother of Peter St. Laurent.
His father was a career military man serving 25 years with the Royal Canadian Air Force/Canadian Armed Forces. As an "airforce brat", Simon spent his formative years in Royal Canadian Air Force Station Greenwood, Nova Scotia, and in a small town near Baden-Baden, West Germany.
Simon studied Art, and Film & Television Production in college. After just his first year of film-school Simon was hired to design sets for the horror feature film, Graveyard Shift (1986), thereby kicking-off his film career. While still in school, he art directed another feature film in addition to photographing and directing a low-budget television commercial.
Simon continues to work in different capacities in the film and television business including that of independent producer.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Al Robertson
- Freelances as an 'Aviation' writer (and recently advised a American scriptwriter on a historical air-war story). As a matter of fact, his main passion is interviewing 'aircrew'.
- Has worked at various jobs such as medical/surgical photographer, film & video tech, and film programmer/projectionist.
- He wrote a feature length script, "Bomber", based on the experiences of his father who flew as a rear-gunner (tail-gunner) on 'Royal Air Force' Lancasters during WWII.
- Spending quite a few years as an "airforce brat" - living around jet fighters and having flown in all sorts of military transport aircraft - has given him more than a passing interest in aviation.
- Freelances as a film & television journalist.
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