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John Sinclair
Acting
October 2, 1941
Died April 2, 2024 (82 years old)
Flint, Michigan, USA
10
Acting Credits
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 t...
Known For
Filmography
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
as Self (archive footage)
7.1
Gimme Danger
2016
6.9
Requiem for Detroit?
2010
as Beat Poet
6.4
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
2008
as Self
Off the Road
2007
MC5: A True Testimonial
2002
as Himself
7.8
MC5: Kick Out the Jams
1999
8
Growing Up in America
1989
as Self
8.5
John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985
as George Martin
7
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971
as Self
7.5