Joey Cramer

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.

• 1984 - Runaway as Bobby Ramsey
• 1985 - D.A.R.Y.L. as Johnny Klien
• 1985 - I-Man as Eric Wilder [2]
• 1986 - Flight of the Navigator as David Scott Freeman [3]
• 1986 - The Clan of the Cave Bear as young Broud
• 1987 - Stone Fox as Willie
• 1996 - It's My Party (uncredited)
• 2018 - 50/50 Grind as Lenny (short film)
• 2020 - Life After the Navigator as Himself

• Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 episodes 1 and 2 "Death Stalks the Big Top" (1 and 2) (1986) as Charlie McCallum.
• The Disney Sunday Movie - "I-Man" (1986) as Eric Wilder.

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.[4]

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.[5]

A decade later, Cramer began to run into conflict with 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.[6] In October 2010 he was fined for consuming alcohol in a public place. In 2011, Cramer 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.[7]

On May 1, 2016, Cramer was arrested in connection with a bank robbery of a Scotiabank outlet that occurred in Sechelt, British Columbia a few days earlier.[8] On June 8, 2016, he pleaded guilty to charges of robbing a bank, wearing a disguise to commit a crime, fleeing the police and dangerous driving.[9] On August 31, 2016, he was sentenced to a custodial term of two years less a day, as well as two years of probation, conditions of which include attending counselling and residing in a treatment centre for narcotics abuse.[10]

In 2018, production began on a documentary about Cramer's life, entitled Life After the Navigator.[11][12]

In 2020, production was completed for Life After the Navigator, with the movie released in November on blu-ray and select streaming providers.[13]

• Joey Cramer at IMDb
• Life After the Navigator - Official Movie Site