Actor

Jay Underwood

31 credited titles on WatchWise

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay Underwood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jay Underwood in one minute

Strongest genre

Comedy

$270M · 67% hit rate

Biggest hit

The Boy Who Could Fly

$7.2M

Standout efficiency

0.8x

The Boy Who Could Fly · gross ÷ budget

Commercial performance

Associated lifetime gross

$288M

Combined reported budget

$35M

Gross / budget

8.2x

Bankability Index

67 / 100

All figures are associated, not attributed — box-office numbers are sourced from TMDB and Wikipedia (reused under CC BY-SA), shown in US$, and weighted by billing prominence. Coverage varies by title; figures are estimates, not audited trade data.