Date of Birth:

Mar 12, 1945 (81 years)

Place of Birth:

Sydney, Australia

Biography:

James "Jim" Sharman is a 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 from the 1960s to the present, 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 and the film's follow-up Shock Treatment.