
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).
🎬 Movies (12)

Sane Inside Insanity
2025
Self – Director

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
2025
Self

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
2016
Original Film Writer

The Last Impresario
2014
Self

Andy X
2012
Director

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006
Self

The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show
1995
Self

Shock Treatment
1981
Director

The Night, the Prowler
1978
Director

Summer of Secrets
1976
Director

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975
Director

Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens
1972
Director