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'',

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in ''The Sonny and Cher Story'', Bug in '' Uncle Buck,'' and Ernest Hemingway in ''

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''. He also portrayed the

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in the 1994 unreleased film ''

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''.

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''. Subsequently, Underwood appeared in the feature film '' No Greater Love'', released in 2010. Underwood worked for Calvary Bible Church in

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pastor A pastor (abbreviated to "Ps","Pr", "Pstr.", "Ptr." or "Psa" (both singular), or "Ps" (plural)) is the leader of a Christianity, Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutherani ...

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.

Partial filmography

* 1986 '' Desert Bloom'' as Robin * 1986 '' The Boy Who Could Fly'' as Eric * 1987 '' Not Quite Human'' (TV movie) as Chip Carson * 1987 ''

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'' as Circle K Clerk * 1988 '' The Invisible Kid'' as Grover Dunn * 1989 '' Uncle Buck'' as 'Bug' * 1989 '' Not Quite Human II'' (TV Movie) as Chip Carson * 1989 ''

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'' (TV Series) as Rob Daniels * 1990 ''

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'' (TV Mini-Series) as Chris Marshall * 1990 ''The Gumshoe Kid'' as Jeff Sherman * 1990 ''

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'' as Club Guy Bob (uncredited) * 1991 ''Son of Darkness: To Die for II'' as Danny * 1992 '' Still Not Quite Human'' (TV Movie) as Chip Carson * 1993 ''

'' (TV Series) as

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* 1994 '' The Fantastic Four'' as Johnny Storm * 1994 ''Stalked'' as Daryl Gleeson * 1994 ''The Raffle'' as Wilson Lowe * 1995 '' Sleepstalker'' as Griffin Davis * 1995 '' A Reason to Believe'' as Jim Curran * 1996 '' Star Command'' (TV Movie) as Ensign Ken Oort * 1996 ''The Lord Protector'' as Priamus * 1997 ''The Nurse'' as John Beecher * 1997 ''

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'' as Donald Duncan * 1998 ''

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'' as John Clark * 1998 ''Fatal Affair'' as Ezra Tyler * 1999 '' Valerie Flake'' as Tim Darnell * 1999 ''The Beat Goes On: The Sonny & Cher Story'' (TV movie) as

* 1999 ''Dead Dogs'' as Derek * 2000 '' Dancing in September'' as Michael Daniels * 2000 '' The Girls' Room'' as Shepp * 2000 '' Star Trek: Voyager'' (Episode: "

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") as Mortimer Harren * 2001 '' Road to Redemption'' as Alan Fischer * 2001 ''

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'' (Episode: ''

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'') as Jeb Dukes * 2001 ''Legend of the Candy Cane'' (TV movie) as Chester (voice) * 2004 ''

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! ''Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!'' is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Victor Levin and starring Kate Bosworth, Topher Grace, Josh Duhamel, Gary Cole, Ginnifer Goodwin, Sean Hayes and Nathan Lane. T ...

'' as Police Officer Tom * 2005 ''Annie's Point'' (TV movie) as Police Officer * 2006 ''Where There's a Will'' (TV movie) as Jimmy Ray * 2010 '' No Greater Love'' as Dave * 2016 ''Drift'' (Short) as Dad * 2016 ''Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel'' as Cross * 2019 ''Surge of Dawn'' as Cross

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