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Jim Sharman

Jim Sharman

Jim Sharman

1945-03-12

Sydney, Australia

Age: 80

DIRECTING

Biography

James "Jim" Sharman is a 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 from the 1960s to the present, 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 and the film's follow-up Shock Treatment.

Best known for:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

Shock Treatment

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens

The Night, the Prowler

The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show

Summer of Secrets

Andy X

Sane Inside Insanity

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

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Filmography:

Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens (1972)
WORK AS:
Director
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
6.7
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Director
Summer of Secrets (1976)
WORK AS:
Director
The Night, the Prowler (1978)
WORK AS:
Director
Shock Treatment (1981)
4.5
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Andy X (2012)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)
3.6
WORK AS:
Original Film Writer

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