Acting credits
4
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Jim Sharman
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.6
Low visibility
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Movies: 11Series: 0Crew credits: 7
TMDB ID: 13484
IMDb ID: nm0788940
Known for: Directing
Born: March 12, 1945
Age: 80
Place of birth: Sydney, Australia
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1972 - 2025
Years active: 54
Average TMDB rating: 6.17
Wikidata: Q1689216
Other jobs
Director (6)Original Film Writer (1)
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
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jim Sharman.
Sane Inside Insanity
as Self – Director
2025 Movie
8.6
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
as Self
2025 Movie
5.1
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
Original Film Writer
2016 Movie
Andy X
Director
2012 Movie
6.3
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
as Self
2006 Movie
10.0
The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show
as Self
1995 Movie
5.8
Shock Treatment
Director
1981 Movie
4.6
The Night, the Prowler
Director
1978 Movie
5.0
Summer of Secrets
Director
1976 Movie
7.4
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Director
1975 Movie
5.8
Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens
Director
1972 Movie