
Jay Underwood
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.447 |
Birthday | 1968-10-01 |
Place of Birth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
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1989

Uncle Buck
6.8/1196
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewhe...
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1999

Fatal Affair
6/2
Young advertising executive Mack Maddox is on a career fast-track. Happily married with a young daughter, Mack seems to have it all... until a bizarre...
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Fatal Affair

1987

Not Quite Human
5.4/37
Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android co...
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1996

Star Command
4.7/13
A bunch of young and impulsive space cadets make their first real flight in space and realize that the attack they suffered wasn't a training mission....
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1994

The Fantastic Four
4.3/175
When dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid astronauts are given incredible powers. They decide to form a superhero group called the Fantastic Four to...
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2010

No Greater Love
5.1/11
Jeff and Heather Baker were life long sweethearts and happily married... for a time. But at her greatest moment of weakness, Heather abandons Jeff, fo...
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1988

The Invisible Kid
4.9/22
A nerdy teenage scientist discovers a formula for invisibility, and uses it to take revenge on all those who have wronged him--and also to spy on the...
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1986

The Boy Who Could Fly
6.3/130
Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems,...
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2006

Where There's a Will
6.7/5
A hapless grifter stands to inherit a small fortune from his estranged grandmother if he travels to Harmony, Texas to live with her. Instead of a shor...
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1997

Afterglow
6/33
Lucky Mann is a builder equally handy at repairs and seduction. The latest housewife to succumb to his charms is Marianne, unhappily married to corpor...
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Afterglow

2000

The Girls' Room
0/0
Two college roommates -- prim and proper Grace (Cat Taber) and wild and woolly Casey (Soleil Moon Frye) -- find themselves in a tense rivalry when Cas...
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1989

Not Quite Human II
5.9/27
Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there...
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Not Quite Human II

2001

Road to Redemption
6.5/4
A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters
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1988

Dare to Say No!
0/0
Shows children various reasons why they need to resist peer pressure, refuse drugs, and refuse to follow the crowd just to fit in
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1992

Still Not Quite Human
4.7/21
In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced by an android. Can Chi...
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1996

The Dark Mist
3.5/2
With the future of the world hanging in the balance, one fearless hero's quest to solve "The Riddle of the Chosen". As the Lord Protector makes his wa...
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1998

Possums
5.5/4
When the town of Nowata votes to cancel its losing high school football team, the Possums, a local radio announcer decides to keep broadcasting imagin...
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1995

A Reason to Believe
4.6/8
Sorority gal Charlotte's innocence is lost after she is raped during a frat party. Confused, terrified and shunned by her peers, she finds solace and...
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A Reason to Believe

1995

Sleepstalker
4.531/32
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, hi...
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2015

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
6.7/43
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1999

And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story
5.5/3
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And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story

1986

Desert Bloom
5.5/18
The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particula...
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1987

The Day My Kid Went Punk
5/2
A nerdy teen makes himself over as a punk rocker, embarrassing his conservative parents in the process.
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2001

Dancing in September
6.5/1
A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
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1990

The Gumshoe Kid
3/2
Originally bound for Harvard, Jeff joins the family detective business to save his mother and sister from eviction. He learns the ropes quickly when a...
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2003

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
6.7/100
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

1992

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
5.6/8
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Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

1994

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
6.2/13
Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Arizona, this film...
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Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

1999

Valerie Flake
1/1
A boozing, recently widowed young woman gives every one she comes into contact with a hard time. She moves back home with her in-laws, where she is pu...
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Valerie Flake

1999

Dead Dogs
4/2
A young security guard works the late shift at the Driftwood Inn along with a desk clerk and a married night maid with whom he is having an affair in...
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Dead Dogs

1997

The Nurse
4.4/7
A traumatized nurse plots revenge against a catatonic businessman whom she blames for the death of her family. By integrating herself as his personal...
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1994

Stalked
5.5/2
Clean-cut, handsome looking psychiatric patient Daryl Gleeson finds himself hopelessly falling in love with restaurant owner Brooke Daniels, after hav...
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Stalked

2005

Annie's Point
6/7
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Poi...
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1991

Son of Darkness: To Die For II
2.7/10
Vampires come to town. Who's a vampire? Who's not? Ask our main character, who is suspicious, and our main character's brother, who gets seduced by on...
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Son of Darkness: To Die For II

1990

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
6.1/205
To the Los Angeles elite, Ford Fairlane is known as "Mr. Rock 'n' Roll Detective." This loudmouthed ladies' man serves an exclusive rock star clientel...
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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

2018

Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel
2/2
When a neighborhood development is built over a former CIA hidden underground base that was destroyed 30 years earlier, but what no one knew there is...
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Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel

2002

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
5.5/21
Going to college and working in a seedy speakeasy bring Indy into contact with jazz great Sidney Bechet, who teaches him how to play the blues. Unfort...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues

2002

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
5.3/17
In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propaganda assignment that he hopes will bring a swift e...
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1988

Promised Land
4.9/31
Three recent high school grads - star athlete Hancock, his cheerleader girlfriend, Mary, and the awkward Senator - aim to leave their small town behin...
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2001

The Legend of the Candy Cane
0/0
The night a mysterious stranger rode into the lonely prairie town of West Sage, no one realized their lives would never be the same.
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The Legend of the Candy Cane

2004

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
5.7/491
A small-town girl wins a date with a Hollywood star through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl...
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1994

The Raffle
2/1
Two out of work men come up with a money-making promotion to find the most beautiful woman in the world and to set up a raffle where the winner wins a...
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