Person
Jim Sharman
Directing · Born 1945-03-12 · Sydney, Australia
Biography
James "Jim" Sharman (born March 12, 1945) is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with over 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director since the 1960s, but is probably best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and the film's follow-up Shock Treatment (1981).
Known for
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Screenplay
Sane Inside Insanity
Self – Director
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
Original Film Writer
Shock Treatment
Director
The Last Impresario
Self
The Night, the Prowler
Director
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Self
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Self
Summer of Secrets
Director
The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show
Self
Filmography
- 2025Sane Inside InsanitySelf – Director
- 2025Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky HorrorSelf
- 2016The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp AgainOriginal Film Writer
- 2014The Last ImpresarioSelf
- 2012Andy XDirector
- 2006Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the MainstreamSelf
- 1995The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video ShowSelf
- 1981Shock TreatmentDirector
- 1978The Night, the ProwlerDirector
- 1976Summer of SecretsDirector
- 1975The Rocky Horror Picture ShowScreenplay
- 1972Shirley Thompson Versus the AliensDirector
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