Jay Underwood

Actor Oct 1 (age 57) Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 1984–2025 (41 year career)

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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 Fo…

Known For

Film

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

Power Plant Worker #1

Film

Uncle Buck

Bug

Film

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

Policeman Tom

Film

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Club Guy Bob (uncredited)

Film

The Boy Who Could Fly

Eric

Film

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

Mr. Entertainment

Film

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

Himself

Film

The Fantastic Four

Johnny Storm

Filmography

Acting (58)

Movies (43)

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

2025

as Power Plant Worker #1

7.0

Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel

2018

as Cross

2.0

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

as Himself

No Greater Love

as Dave

Where There's a Will

as Jimmy Ray

Annie's Point

as Policeman

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

2004

as Policeman Tom

5.7

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

as Mr. Entertainment

Road to Redemption

as Alan Fischer

The Legend of the Candy Cane

2001

as Chester (voice)

Dancing in September

2001

as Michael Daniels

6.5

The Girls' Room

2000

as Shepp

Valerie Flake

1999

as Tim Darnell

2.3

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues

1999

as Ernest Hemingway

5.7

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence

as Ernest Hemingway

Fatal Affair

as Ezra Tyler

And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story

as Sonny Bono

Dead Dogs

as Derek

Possums

as John Clark

Afterglow

as Donald Duncan

The Nurse

as John Beecher

The Lord Protector

as Priamus

Star Command

as Kenneth 'Ken' Oort

Sleepstalker

as Griffin Davis

A Reason to Believe

as Jim Curran

The Fantastic Four

as Johnny Storm

Stalked

as Daryl Gleeson

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

as Jack Montgomery

The Raffle

as Wilson Lowe

Still Not Quite Human

1992

as Chip Carson

4.7

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

1992

as Kyle Lawrence

5.6

Son of Darkness: To Die For II

1991

as Danny

2.5

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

1990

as Club Guy Bob (uncredited)

The Gumshoe Kid

as Jeff Sherman

Uncle Buck

as Bug

Not Quite Human II

as Chip Carson

Promised Land

as Circle K Clerk

The Invisible Kid

as Grover Dunn

Dare to Say No!

Not Quite Human

as Chip Carson

The Day My Kid Went Punk

as Terry

Desert Bloom

as Robin

The Boy Who Could Fly

1986

as Eric

6.3

Television (15)

Miracles

2003

as Mayor Frank Letherton

First Monday

The West Wing

as Christopher Wick

V.I.P.

as Adam Elliot

Millennium

as Michael Slattery

Star Trek: Voyager

as Mortimer Harren

as Mr. Burke

The X-Files

as Jeb Dukes

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

as Ernest Hemingway

Blind Faith

as Chris Marshall

Superboy

as Mike Walker (Kryptonite Kid)

21 Jump Street

as Rob Daniels

A Year in the Life

as Gus

J.J. Starbuck

Murder, She Wrote

as Will Rafferty