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
1975
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
2016
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
2025
Shock Treatment
1981
The Night, the Prowler
1978
Sane Inside Insanity
2025
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006
The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show
1995
The Last Impresario
2014
Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens
1972
Summer of Secrets
1976
Andy X
2012
FILMOGRAPHY
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Movies
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Acting
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Directing
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Writing
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