Acting credits
57
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Jay Underwood
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.6
Moderate attention
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Movies: 42Series: 15
TMDB ID: 27493
IMDb ID: nm0001809
Known for: Acting
Born: October 1, 1968
Age: 57
Place of birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1984 - 2025
Years active: 42
Average TMDB rating: 6.28
Wikidata: Q3163273
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jay Underwood.
7.0
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
as Power Plant Worker #1
2025 Movie
2.0
Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel
as Cross
2018 Movie
6.7
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
as Himself
2015 Movie
4.8
No Greater Love
as Dave
2010 Movie
6.7
Where There's a Will
as Jimmy Ray
2006 Movie
5.4
Annie's Point
as Policeman
2005 Movie
5.7
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
as Policeman Tom
2004 Movie
6.6
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
as Mr. Entertainment
2003 Movie
6.2
Road to Redemption
as Alan Fischer
2001 Movie
The Legend of the Candy Cane
as Chester (voice)
2001 Movie
6.5
Dancing in September
as Michael Daniels
2001 Movie
5.7
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
as Ernest Hemingway
1999 Movie
5.6
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
as Ernest Hemingway
1999 Movie
6.0
Fatal Affair
as Ezra Tyler
1999 Movie
5.5
And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story
as Sonny Bono
1999 Movie
3.3
Dead Dogs
as Derek
1999 Movie
2.3
Valerie Flake
as Tim Darnell
1999 Movie
5.5
Possums
as John Clark
1998 Movie
5.9
Afterglow
as Donald Duncan
1997 Movie
4.1
The Nurse
as John Beecher
1997 Movie
4.7
Star Command
as Kenneth 'Ken' Oort
1996 Movie
3.5
The Lord Protector
as Priamus
1996 Movie
4.4
A Reason to Believe
as Jim Curran
1995 Movie
4.4
Sleepstalker
as Griffin Davis
1995 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Jay Underwood.
8.0
Miracles
as Mayor Frank Letherton • 1 eps
2003 Series
6.0
First Monday
1 eps
2002 Series
8.3
The West Wing
as Christopher Wick • 1 eps
1999 Series
5.3
V.I.P.
as Adam Elliot • 1 eps
1998 Series
7.7
Millennium
as Michael Slattery • 1 eps
1996 Series
7.8
Star Trek: Voyager
as Mortimer Harren • 1 eps
1995 Series
7.8
ER
as Mr. Burke • 1 eps
1994 Series
8.4
The X-Files
as Jeb Dukes • 1 eps
1993 Series
6.5
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Ernest Hemingway • 3 eps
1992 Series
5.5
Blind Faith
as Chris Marshall • 2 eps
1990 Series
6.3
Superboy
as Mike Walker (Kryptonite Kid) • 1 eps
1988 Series
5.0
J.J. Starbuck
1 eps
1987 Series
6.8
A Year in the Life
as Gus • 2 eps
1987 Series
7.2
21 Jump Street
as Rob Daniels • 1 eps
1987 Series
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Will Rafferty • 1 eps
1984 Series