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Jim Sharman

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Jim Sharman

Born March 12, 1945 in Sydney, Australia6 films

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).

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show posterFirst watchThe Rocky Horror Picture Show19757.4After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of…View film

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Filmography

6 films as director
  1. 2012Andy XDirector
  2. 1981Shock TreatmentDirector
  3. 1978The Night, the ProwlerDirector
  4. 1976Summer of SecretsDirector
  5. 1975The Rocky Horror Picture ShowDirector
  6. 1972Shirley Thompson Versus the AliensDirector