Biography
James Hays Eckhouse (born February 14, 1955) is an American actor, best known for playing Jim Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210. He also directed three episodes of the show.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Happy Camper
2023
as Alexander Michaels
When Dillon's love life falls apart she returns to her grandfather's farm in Colorado, where she works with Jordan, a handsome hardware store owner, t...

Saving Paradise
2021
as Cameron Wannemaker
A ruthless corporate raider is forced to return to his small town roots where he suddenly inherits his father's nearly bankrupt pencil factory, which ...

A Simple Wedding
2018
as Steven Talbot
Cultures clash and families collide when an Iranian woman finds love with an eccentric bisexual artist.

Dear Chickens
2018
as Doctor Friedman
When a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an unexpected friendship forms over their hatred of fake chee...

The Boy on the Train
2017
as Roger
An American film director screening his new film in Budapest meets one of the subjects of that film. What begins as a simple chat over coffee turns in...

High and Mighty
2017
as Knotts
After surviving a shooting totally unscathed, a lovable lush discovers he has superhuman powers… but only when he’s high or drunk.

Married by Christmas
2016
as Mark Tate
Due to an antiquated clause in her grandmother’s will, an ambitious young executive may lose her place at the family company unless she can get marrie...

Dead Awake
2016
as Mr. Bowman
Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who, after the sudden death of her twin sister, is investigating the mysterious deaths of ot...

Murder of a President
2016
as Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss
The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassination.

The Good Mother
2013
as Dr. Cullen
After her best friend dies, a teen discovers that the girl's mother deliberately made her sick.

Second Chances
2013
as Dr. Coleman
Jenny McLean is a single mom working at a 911-call center struggling to make ends meet and raise her two kids, Elsie and Luke. Although still reeling ...

Shotgun Wedding
2013
as Philip 'Flip' Milton
After Robert, a marrying-up groom, 'accidentally' shoots his fiance's Maid of Honor in the face during a drunken skeet-shooting session, his meddling ...

The Avengers
2012
as Senator Boynton
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I...

Love's Everlasting Courage
2011
as Mr. Harris
Clark Davis struggles to maintain his land and support his family during a long drought. With a bank loan to repay, his wife, Ellen, takes a job in to...

The Purple Hat
2010
as The Man
It is a rainy night in 1938 in the New Orleans French Quarter. A man wanders into a bar and tells a grisly tale of a woman he has seen murdered over a...

Weak Species
2009
as George's Dad
Classmates Steve and George are part of a frightening food chain. For Steve, high school is a game. Seducing his classmates gives him his sense of pur...

Wake
2009
as Mr. Williams
When things get tough for offbeat Carys Reitman, she does what any emotionally isolated, modern girl would do - she goes to strangers' funerals...

Love at First Hiccup
2009
as Christian
Victor, a bumbling and gullible high school freshman, has caught a serious case of Anya-itis—an acute, incurable crush on hot senior Anya. Too bad she...

Extreme Movie
2008
as Jessica's Dad
A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.

Half-Life
2008
as Richard Parker
As troubling signs of global cataclysms accelerate, a brother and sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's...

Jimmy and Judy
2006
as Jimmy's Dad
Two misunderstood suburban kids challenge society and run from the police while documenting all of their deeds with a digital camera.

A Cinderella Story
2004
as Mr. Farrell
Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the sc...
The Sure Hand of God
2004
as Benny Ballard
A struggling widow vows to save her teenage daughter from a life of hardship by snaring her a wealthy husband.

Joseph: King of Dreams
2002
as Potiphar (voice)
In this animated retelling of the story from the Bible's Book of Genesis, Joseph's gift of dream interpretation and his brilliantly colored coat inspi...

The Learning Curve
2001
as Mr. Stevens
Paul and Georgia are lovers, soul mates...and partners in crime. But when this duplicitous duo tries to dupe the wrong man, they are ensnared in a wor...

Judgment Day
1999
as Colonel Thomas 'Tom' Keller
This sci-fi thriller finds the world in imminent danger when a collision in outer space sends huge pieces of interstellar debris on a path headed stra...

Jingle Bells
1999
as Dad (voice)
A family with very little money worries about not being able to buy presents for each other, until they receive a little inspiration from a Christmas ...

One True Thing
1998
as District Attorney
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Intimate Betrayal
1996
as Paul
Two old friends reunite before a wedding to put the sins of their past behind them. What starts out as an evening of reconciliation turns into a night...
Spring Fling!
1995
as George

Junior
1994
as Ned Sneller
A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out...

Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?
1993
as Sergeant Jack Powell
After a young prostitute is murdered and left in a rubbish heap, her mother does everything to track down the killer.

Leaving Normal
1992
as Rich
Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the wa...

Defending Your Life
1991
as Jeep Owner
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way stat...

In the Best Interest of the Child
1990
as Chilton
Jennifer's daughter is having nightmares and acting violently. It dawns on her that the child may be being sexually abused by her father. What is she ...

Fat Man and Little Boy
1989
as Robert Harper
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan...

The Christmas Wife
1988
as Jim Tanner
An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We ma...

Cocktail
1988
as Tourist
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine ar...

Big
1988
as Supervisor
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grow...

Shakedown
1988
as Steve Rosen
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investiga...

Fatal Attraction
1987
as Man in Japanese Restaurant
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

84 Charing Cross Road
1987
as Joey, the Dentist
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order...

Roanoak
1986
The story chronicles the first recorded meeting in the late 16th Century between British explorers-settlers and Native Americans in what is now North ...

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
1986
as Steven
A young boy is ridiculed by his school mates for his eccentric behavior and assertions that he can fly. Little do they know..... All parts are perform...
Blue Heaven
1985
as Tony Sabella
Carol's husband Tony becomes increasingly more violent, yet nothing is done to stop his behavior.

Trading Places
1983
as Guard
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
as Harold Clurman
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

Plea
N/A
as Judge Bannerman
A public defender has minutes to save her 16-year-old client from a life sentence for murder by convincing him to take a plea deal for a crime he only...