Acting credits
8
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
John Sinclair
Acting
Career Snapshot
ExplainedThese indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.
TMDB popularity
0.6
Low visibility
TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.
Movies: 8Series: 0
TMDB ID: 1156255
Known for: Acting
Born: October 2, 1941
Died: April 2, 2024
Age: 82
Place of birth: Flint, Michigan, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1971 - 2025
Years active: 55
Biography
As an emerging young poet in the mid-1960s, Sinclair took on the role of manager for the Detroit rock band MC5. The band's politically charged music and its Yippie core audience dovetailed with Sinclair's own radical development. In 1968, while still working with the band, he conspicuously served as a founding member of the White Panther Party, a militantly anti-racist socialist group and counterpart of the Black Panther Party. Arrested for distribution of marijuana in 1969, Sinclair was given ten years in prison. The sentence was criticized by many as unduly harsh, and it galvanized a noisy protest movement led by prominent figures of the 1960s counterculture. He was freed on March 9, 1972, by the Michigan Supreme Court when the possession of marijuana law was declared unconstitutional.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with John Sinclair.
7.0
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)
2025 Movie
6.4
Requiem for Detroit?
as Beat Poet
2010 Movie
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
as Self
2008 Movie
Off the Road
2007 Movie
7.4
MC5: A True Testimonial
as Himself
2002 Movie
8.0
MC5: Kick Out the Jams
1999 Movie
10.0
Growing Up in America
as Self
1989 Movie
6.0
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
as Self
1971 Movie