Actor

Jim Sharman

Contemporaryb. 1945DocumentaryHorror

Master of Dread

Also directed 6 films ↗Also wrote 4 screenplays ↗

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Filmography

2025Sane Inside InsanitySelf – Director 2025Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky HorrorSelf8.3 2014The Last ImpresarioSelf5.5 2006Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the MainstreamSelf6.3 1995The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video ShowSelf9.7

About

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).

As Director

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1981Shock Treatment 1975The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1978The Night, the Prowler 1972Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens 1976Summer of Secrets 2012Andy X

As Screenwriter

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1975The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2016The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again 2012Andy X 1981Shock Treatment

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