Jay Underwood
Biography
Jay Underwood is an American actor born on October 1, 1968, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He began his acting career as a teen in the mid-1980s. Underwood is known for his starring roles in several feature films, including The Boy Who Could Fly, Not Quite Human, The Invisible Kid, The Sonny and Cher Story, Uncle Buck, and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He also portrayed the Human Torch in the 1994 unreleased film Fantastic Four. Underwood has a total of 58 known credits in his acting career.
Career overview
Jay Underwood is an American actor. He began his acting career in the mid-1980s as a teenager. Underwood has appeared in various film roles, including Eric Gibb in The Boy Who Could Fly, Chip Carson in Not Quite Human, Grover Dunn in The Invisible Kid, and Sonny Bono in The Sonny and Cher Story.
He also portrayed Bug in the film Uncle Buck and Ernest Hemingway in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Additionally, Underwood played the role of the Human Torch in the 1994 unreleased film Fantastic Four.
Jay Underwood has accumulated a significant number of acting credits, with a total of 58 known credits in his career.
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- The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025) as Power Plant Worker #1
- Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel (2018) as Cross
- Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four (2015) as Himself
- No Greater Love (2010) as Dave
- Where There's a Will (2006) as Jimmy Ray
- Annie's Point (2005) as Policeman
- Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) as Policeman Tom
- Miracles (2003) as Mayor Frank Letherton
- 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003) as Mr. Entertainment
- First Monday (2002)
- Road to Redemption (2001) as Alan Fischer
- Dancing in September (2001) as Michael Daniels
- The Legend of the Candy Cane (2001) as Chester (voice)
- The Girls' Room (2000) as Shepp
- The West Wing (1999) as Christopher Wick
- Valerie Flake (1999) as Tim Darnell
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence (1999) as Ernest Hemingway
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues (1999) as Ernest Hemingway
- Fatal Affair (1999) as Ezra Tyler
- And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story (1999) as Sonny Bono
- Dead Dogs (1999) as Derek
- V.I.P. (1998) as Adam Elliot
- V.I.P. (1998) as Adam Elliott
- Possums (1998) as John Clark
- Afterglow (1997) as Donald Duncan
- The Nurse (1997) as John Beecher
- Millennium (1996) as Michael Slattery
- The Lord Protector (1996) as Priamus
- Star Command (1996) as Kenneth 'Ken' Oort
- Star Trek: Voyager (1995) as Mortimer Harren
- Sleepstalker (1995) as Griffin Davis
- A Reason to Believe (1995) as Jim Curran
- ER (1994) as Mr. Burke
- The Fantastic Four (1994) as Johnny Storm
- Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994) as Jack Montgomery
- Stalked (1994) as Daryl Gleeson
- The Raffle (1994) as Wilson Lowe
- The X-Files (1993) as Jeb Dukes
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992) as Ernest Hemingway
- Still Not Quite Human (1992) as Chip Carson
- Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (1992) as Kyle Lawrence
- Son of Darkness: To Die For II (1991) as Danny
- The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) as Club Guy Bob (uncredited)
- Blind Faith (1990) as Chris Marshall
- The Gumshoe Kid (1990) as Jeff Sherman
- Uncle Buck (1989) as Bug
- Not Quite Human II (1989) as Chip Carson
- Superboy (1988) as Mike Walker (Kryptonite Kid)
- Promised Land (1988) as Circle K Clerk
- The Invisible Kid (1988) as Grover Dunn
- Dare to Say No! (1988)
- 21 Jump Street (1987) as Rob Daniels
- J.J. Starbuck (1987)
- A Year in the Life (1987) as Gus
- The Day My Kid Went Punk (1987) as Terry
- Not Quite Human (1987) as Chip Carson
- The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) as Eric
- Desert Bloom (1986) as Robin
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Will Rafferty
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Spencer