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film/stage director. producer. playwright. James David Sharman (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. [1] He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director since the 1960s, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit ...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 independent [6] [7] musical comedy horror film produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman, and distributed by 20th Century-Fox. The screenplay was written by Sharman and actor Richard O'Brien, who is also a member of the cast. The film is based on the 1973 musical stage production ...
It also involved sci-fi, rock n roll, B Pictures, etc. All my films have been low budget and non-mainstream, the most interesting one is The Night The Prowler, from a story by Patrick White, available on DVD in Australia. Also, a TV documentary film I made on the writer Patrick White shortly after his death, for ABC-TV in Australia.
Jimmy Sharman Jr's son Jim Sharman became a theatre and film director known especially for the musicals Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Rocky Horror Show, and the movie version, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Jim Sharman. Director: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jim Sharman spent much of his young life at the circus, where his father and grandfather ran a travelling boxing sideshow. Taking an interest in theatre, he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1966. Sharman became interested in directing experimental theatre. While directing the Sydney production of Hair ...
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Jim Sharman giving Direction to Peter Hinwood. Jim Sharman is an Australian director. He is the director of The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the film's follow-up Shock Treatment. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1945, Sharman spent a large part of his childhood getting a first-hand education in Vaudeville ...
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Nov 7, 2015 · In 1975, Sharman directed and co-wrote “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which 40 years after its release is still the ultimate midnight movie. Executive produced by Lou Adler, who had seen the ...
