Jim Sharman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jim Sharman

Australian theatre director

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1945

Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: screenwriter, film director, theater director

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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.
He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is 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).