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Birthday

1968-10-01 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Jay Underwood

Biography

Jay Underwood (born October 1, 1968) is an American actor and pastor. Beginning a prolific career as a teen actor in the mid-1980s, he is perhaps best known for his starring feature film roles, portraying Eric Gibb in The Boy Who Could Fly, Chip Carson in Not Quite Human, Grover Dunn in The Invisible Kid, Sonny Bono in The Sonny and Cher Story, Bug in Uncle Buck, and Ernest Hemingway in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He also portrayed the Human Torch in the 1994 unreleased film Fantastic Four.

In 2001, Underwood was honoured by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award for his role in The Boy Who Could Fly. Subsequently, Underwood appeared in the feature film No Greater Love, released in 2010.

Underwood worked for Calvary Bible Church in Burbank, California, as junior high pastor from August 2005 to June 2007 while attending The Master's Seminary and was the full-time pastor of First Baptist Church of Weaverville, California, from 2007 to 2020. As of January 1, 2021, Jay returned to Calvary Bible Church in Burbank and is currently interim pastor-teacher.

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2018

Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel as Cross

2015

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four as Himself

2010

No Greater Love as Dave

2006

Where There's a Will as Jimmy Ray

2005

Annie's Point as Policeman

2004

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! as Policeman Tom

2003		44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out as Mr. Entertainment
2003		Miracles

2002

First Monday

2001		Road to Redemption as Alan Fischer
2001		The Legend of the Candy Cane as Chester (voice)
2001		Dancing in September as Michael Daniels

2000

The Girls' Room as Shepp

1999		The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence as Ernest Hemingway
1999		The West Wing as Congressman Christopher Wick
1999		Fatal Affair as Ezra Tyler
1999		And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story as Sonny Bono
1999		Dead Dogs as Derek
1999		Valerie Flake as Tim Darnell

1998		V.I.P. as Adam Elliot
1998		V.I.P. as Adam Elliott
1998		Possums as John Clark

1997		Afterglow as Donald Duncan
1997		The Nurse as John Beecher

1996		Millennium as Michael Slattery
1996		Star Command as Kenneth 'Ken' Oort
1996		The Dark Mist as Priamus

1995		A Reason to Believe as Jim Curran
1995		Sleepstalker as Griffin Davis
1995		Star Trek: Voyager as Mortimer Harren

1994		The Raffle as Wilson Lowe
1994		ER as Mr. Burke
1994		Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone as Jack Montgomery
1994		The Fantastic Four as Johnny Storm
1994		Stalked as Daryl Gleeson

1993		The X-Files as Jeb Dukes
1993		The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as Ernest Hemingway

1992		The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Ernest Hemingway
1992		Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story as Kyle Lawrence
1992		Still Not Quite Human as Chip Carson

1991

Son of Darkness: To Die For II as Danny

1990		The Adventures of Ford Fairlane as Club Guy Bob (uncredited)
1990		Blind Faith as Chris Marshall
1990		The Gumshoe Kid as Jeff Sherman

1989		Not Quite Human II as Chip Carson
1989		Uncle Buck as Bug

1988		Superboy as Mike Walker (Kryptonite Kid)
1988		Dare to Say No!
1988		The Invisible Kid as Grover Dunn
1988		Promised Land as Circle K Clerk

1987		The Day My Kid Went Punk as Terry
1987		J.J. Starbuck
1987		A Year in the Life as Gus
1987		Not Quite Human as Chip Carson
1987		21 Jump Street as Rob Daniels

1986		The Boy Who Could Fly as Eric
1986		Desert Bloom as Robin

1984		Murder, She Wrote as Will Rafferty
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Spencer