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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Known For

The X-Files

Jeb Dukes

Star Trek: Voyager

Mortimer Harren

The West Wing

Congressman Christopher Wick

Murder, She Wrote

Will Rafferty

Murder, She Wrote

Spencer

V.I.P.

Adam Elliot

V.I.P.

Adam Elliott

ER

Mr. Burke

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2018	Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel	Cross
2015	Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four	Himself
2010	No Greater Love	Dave
2006	Where There's a Will	Jimmy Ray
2005	Annie's Point	Policeman
2004	Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!	Policeman Tom
2003	44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out	Mr. Entertainment
2001	Road to Redemption	Alan Fischer
2001	Dancing in September	Michael Daniels
2001	The Legend of the Candy Cane	Chester (voice)
2000	The Girls' Room	Shepp
1999	Fatal Affair	Ezra Tyler
1999	And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story	Sonny Bono
1999	Valerie Flake	Tim Darnell
1999	Dead Dogs	Derek
1999	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence	Ernest Hemingway
1998	Possums	John Clark
1997	Afterglow	Donald Duncan
1997	The Nurse	John Beecher
1996	Star Command	Kenneth 'Ken' Oort
1996	The Dark Mist	Priamus
1995	A Reason to Believe	Jim Curran
1995	Sleepstalker	Griffin Davis
1994	The Fantastic Four	Johnny Storm
1994	Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone	Jack Montgomery
1994	Stalked	Daryl Gleeson
1994	The Raffle	Wilson Lowe
1993	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues	Ernest Hemingway
1992	Still Not Quite Human	Chip Carson
1992	Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story	Kyle Lawrence
1991	Son of Darkness: To Die For II	Danny
1990	The Gumshoe Kid	Jeff Sherman
1990	The Adventures of Ford Fairlane	Club Guy Bob (uncredited)
1989	Uncle Buck	Bug
1989	Not Quite Human II	Chip Carson
1988	The Invisible Kid	Grover Dunn
1988	Dare to Say No!
1988	Promised Land	Circle K Clerk
1987	Not Quite Human	Chip Carson
1987	The Day My Kid Went Punk	Terry
1986	The Boy Who Could Fly	Eric
1986	Desert Bloom	Robin

Year	TV Show	Role
2003	Miracles
2002	First Monday
1999	The West Wing	Congressman Christopher Wick
1998	V.I.P.	Adam Elliot
1998	V.I.P.	Adam Elliott
1996	Millennium	Michael Slattery
1995	Star Trek: Voyager	Mortimer Harren
1994	ER	Mr. Burke
1993	The X-Files	Jeb Dukes
1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Ernest Hemingway
1990	Blind Faith	Chris Marshall
1988	Superboy	Mike Walker (Kryptonite Kid)
1987	21 Jump Street	Rob Daniels
1987	J.J. Starbuck
1987	A Year in the Life	Gus
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Will Rafferty
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Spencer