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.

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. 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. 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.