Jay Underwood

Jay Underwood
Underwood in 2016
Born	(1968-10-01) October 1, 1968 Oakland, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, pastor
Years active	1984–present

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 films roles; portraying Eric Gibb in The Boy Who Could Fly, Chip Carson in Not Quite Human, Grover Dunn in The Invisible Kid and Bug in Uncle Buck. He also portrayed the Human Torch in the 1994 unreleased film Fantastic Four.

Career

In 2001, Underwood was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award for his role in The Boy Who Could Fly.^[1] Most recently, 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,^[2] and is now the full-time pastor of First Baptist Church of Weaverville, California.

Filmography

• The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
• Desert Bloom (1986)
• Not Quite Human (1987)
• Promised Land (1987)
• The Invisible Kid (1988)
• Uncle Buck (1989)
• Not Quite Human II (1989)
• 21 Jump Street (1989)
• Blind Faith (1990)
• Still Not Quite Human (1992)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993)
• The Fantastic Four (1994)
• A Reason to Believe (1995)
• Sleepstalker (1995)
• Star Command (1996)
• Afterglow (1997)
• Valerie Flake (1999)
• AND THE BEAT GOES ON: THE SONNY AND CHER STORY (1999)
• Star Trek: Voyager ("Good Shepherd", 2000)
• Dancing in September (2000)
• Road to Redemption (2001)
• Legend of the Candy Cane (2001) - Chester
• The X-Files (Empedocles, 2001)
• Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004)
• Annie's Point (2005)
• Where There's a Will (2006)
• No Greater Love (2010)
• Drift (2016)
• Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel (2016)

References

External links

• Jay Underwood on IMDb