Joey Cramer
| Joey Cramer | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Cramer in 2007 | |
| Born |
Deleriyes August Joe Fisher Cramer August 23, 1973 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Former television and movie actor |
| Years active | 1984–96 |
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. [1]
Early life
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.
Filmography
- 1984 - Runaway as Bobby Ramsey
- 1986 - I-Man as Eric Wilder
- 1986 - Flight of the Navigator as David Scott Freeman [2]
- 1986 - The Clan of the Cave Bear as young Broud
- 1986 - The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure as Osborn
- 1987 - Stone Fox as Willie
- 1996 - It's My Party uncredited
Television
- Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 episodes 1 and 2 "Death Stalks the Big Top" (1 and 2) (1986) as Charlie McCallum.
Awards
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.[3]
Personal life
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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] As of 2016 Cramer was resident in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada.[7] 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.[7]
References
- ↑ "What Ever Happened To … the kid from 'Flight of the Navigator'?". Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ↑ "Flight of the Navigator". Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ↑ Saturn Awards list nomination 1987. http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000004/1987.
- ↑ "The actor who printed his life on a business card". Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ↑ 'National Post' (Canada) 4 May 2016, 'Former child star of Flight of the Navigator charged in B.C. bank robbery', http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/former-child-star-of-flight-of-the-navigator-joey-cramer-charged-in-sechelt-b-c-bank-robbery
- ↑ 'People.com', 'Former Disney child star arrested', 5 May 2016. http://www.people.com/article/disney-star-joey-cramer-arrest-bank-robbery-canada
- 1 2 "Former child star arrested in connection with Sechelt bank robbery". CBC. May 4, 2016.