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Cramer in 2007
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Born |
Deleriyes August Joe Fisher Cramer August 23, 1973 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Former television and movie actor |
Years active | 1984–1996 |
Joey Cramer is a Canadian former child actor who had a briefly successful career in Canadian television and Hollywood in the mid-1980s, most notably for his role in the cinema film Flight of the Navigator.
Deleriyes Cramer was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 23 August 1973. He entered professional acting in his early teenage years using the name 'Joey' Cramer.
Cramer received a 'Saturn Award' nomination in the category of 'Best Performance by a Young Actor' from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in 1987 for his performance in Flight of the Navigator.
Cramer returned to live in Canada's Sunshine Coast after the end of his acting career in the late 1990s, being employed in a small sporting goods store.
A decade later he began to run into conflict with the legal authorities. In 2008 he was prosecuted for careless storage of a gun, receiving a sentence of three months probation; later in the year he was convicted for possession of narcotics with the intention of trafficking, receiving an imprisonment sentence of six months. In October 2010 he was fined for consuming alcohol in a public place. In 2011 he was convicted of threatening behaviour with a weapon and jailed for 30 days, and received another conviction in that year for cashing forged bank cheques.
As of 2016 Cramer was resident in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada. He was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on 1 May 2016 in connection with a bank robbery of a Scotiabank outlet that occurred in Sechelt, British Columbia a few days earlier. While being held in a prison facility in the Lower Mainland in June 2016 pending a court appearance, Cramer pleaded guilty to charges of robbing a bank, wearing a disguise to commit a crime, fleeing the police and dangerous driving. On 31 August 2016 he was convicted of the offences in a hearing at the Sechelt Provincial Court, and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment; in addition to the sentence the court ordered 2 years probation on release, a condition of the probation being the acceptance of counseling for narcotics abuse.