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Wayne Kramer
Composer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born April 30, 1948Died February 2, 2024 (75 years)
Wayne Kramer (born April 30, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television composer. Kramer came to prominence as a teenager in 1967 as a co-founder of the Detroit rock group MC5 (Motor City 5), a group known for their powerful live performances and radical left-wing political stance. The MC5 broke up amid personality conflicts, drug abuse, and personal problems, which, for Kramer, led to several fallow years, as he battled drug addiction before returning to an active recording and performing schedule in the 1990s. Rolling Stone ranked him number ninety-two on their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time".
Wayne Kramer Filmography
| 2022 | Coldwater Kitchen · as Composer |
| 2021 | Fear and Loathing in Aspen · as Composer |
| 2018 | The Russian Five · as Composer |
| 2015 | Salem Rogers · as Composer |
| 2014 | Algren · as Composer |
| 2014 | Bad Judge (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2013 | Concrete Blondes · as Composer |
| 2012 | Let Fury Have the Hour · as Composer |
| 2011 | Why Not? With Shania Twain (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2010 | Kell on Earth (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2009 | Eastbound & Down (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2006 | Hacking Democracy · as Composer |
| 2025 | I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol · as Self |
| 2022 | |
| 2019 | Guitar, a Six-Stringed Weapon · as Self |
| 2019 | Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine · as Self - Mc5 |
| 2019 | Punk (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2018 | Chuck Berry · as Self |
| 2017 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World · as Self |
| 2016 | |
| 2015 | Danny Says · as Self |
| 2014 | Algren · as Self |
| 2014 | The Joy of the Guitar Riff · as Self |
| 2014 | Super Duper Alice Cooper · as Self (voice) |
| 2012 | A Band Called Death · as Self |
| 2012 | Let Fury Have the Hour · as Self |
| 2011 | Metal Evolution (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2008 | 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs · as Self |
| 2007 | Punk's Not Dead · as Self - Mc5 |
| 2006 | The Drug Years (TV Series) · as Self - Mc5 |
| 2005 | Punk: Attitude · as Himself |
| 2003 | Get Up, Stand Up (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2002 | MC5*: A True Testimonial · as Himself |
| 2001 | Plaster Caster · as Self |
| 2001 | 25 Years of Punk · as Self |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | |
| 2013 | Rock N' Roll Stories (TV Series) · as Guest |
| 2008 | The Boneyard Collection · as Wayne Kramer (segment "the Devil's Due At Midnight") |
| 2015 | Hell and Back · as Songs |