James Van Der Beek

James Van Der Beek

1977-03-08 Cheshire, Connecticut, USA 39 Credits

Biography

James Van Der Beek (born March 8, 1977) is an American actor, known for Dawson's Creek.

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Sidelined: The QB and Me

Sidelined: The QB and Me

2025

as Leroy Lahey

6.1
Acting

Dallas, a burdened but headstrong dancer, is determined to get into the best dance school in the country—her late mother’s alma mater. However, that d...

The Real Full Monty

The Real Full Monty

2024

as Self

5.5
Acting

A group of male celebrities strip down to raise awareness for prostate, testicular, and colorectal cancer testing and research in this daring two-hour...

Bad Hair

Bad Hair

2021

as Grant Madison

5.8
Acting

In 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career ma...

All-Time Favorite NFL Players Named by Celebrities, Players, and Coaches

All-Time Favorite NFL Players Named by Celebrities, Players, and Coaches

2020

as Himself

2.0
Acting

Celebrities, Players, and Coaches all name their favorite NFL players and share stories from their youths and adult lives that made these players thei...

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU

2020

as Self

9.7
Acting

Go back to the beginning of television's longest-running primetime drama with behind-the-scenes footage, memorable scenes and exclusive interviews wit...

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

2019

as James Van Der Beek

5.7
Acting

Jay and Silent Bob embark on a cross-country mission to stop Hollywood from rebooting a film based on their comic book characters Bluntman and Chronic...

Downsizing

Downsizing

2017

as Anesthesiologist

5.4
Acting

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...

Labor Day

Labor Day

2013

as Officer Treadwell

7.0
Acting

Two two strangers are drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a...

The Magic Bracelet

2013

as Joe

5.0
Acting

'The Magic Bracelet' mysteriously links best friends Angela, Ashley and a cheese obsessed dog. When Ashley inherits a totem bracelet from a friend who...

Backwards

Backwards

2012

as Geoff

5.7
Acting

When a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles t...

Salem Falls

Salem Falls

2011

as Jack St. Bride

5.4
Acting

A man with a troubled past tries to settle down in a small town, finds love and then ends up being the target of a witch hunt.

The Big Bang

The Big Bang

2011

as Adam Nova

5.3
Acting

A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets o...

DILF Khakis

DILF Khakis

2011

as Self

6.0
Acting

James Van Der Beek got new pants.

Van Der Week: Behind the Scenes

Van Der Week: Behind the Scenes

2011

as Self

6.0
Acting

A look behind the scenes of how Van Der Week has been made.

Vandermemes

Vandermemes

2011

as Self

6.0
Acting

James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek) is here to bring you the "Dawson Crying GIF" and many more internet faces as part of VanDerWeek, a celebration of ...

Asshole for Hire

Asshole for Hire

2011

as Self

6.0
Acting

James Van Der Beek is playing himself as an asshole for hire.

Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis

Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis

2010

as Sean Bateman

7.0
Acting

Commissioned by Random House and Bret Easton Ellis.

Formosa Betrayed

Formosa Betrayed

2010

as Jake Kelly

6.0
Acting

In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web o...

Mrs. Miracle

Mrs. Miracle

2009

as Seth Webster

6.0
Acting

Overwhelmed widower Seth Webster is searching for a housekeeper to help him with his unruly six year old twin sons. "Mrs. Miracle" mysteriously appear...

Taken in Broad Daylight

Taken in Broad Daylight

2009

as Tony Zappa

5.0
Acting

Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring surviva...

Stolen

Stolen

2009

as Diploma / Roggiani

5.9
Acting

A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.

Eye of the Beast

Eye of the Beast

2007

as Dan Leland

5.0
Acting

This menacing monster yarn stars James Van Der Beek as government scientist Dan Leland, who's sent to investigate reported sightings of a giant squidl...

Final Draft

Final Draft

2007

as Paul Twist

3.5
Acting

A screenwriter suffering from writers block decides to lock himself in his apartment for 18 days in order to meet a career-making deadline. His script...

Robot Chicken: Star Wars

Robot Chicken: Star Wars

2007

as Bush's Aide (voice) (archive sound)

7.2
Acting

A series of 30 sketches, following the hilarious antics of various characters from a galaxy, far, far away.

The Plague

The Plague

2006

as Tom Russell

4.8
Acting

Ten years have passed since the world's children fell into a coma. Tonight they're waking up and all hell is breaking loose. An unholy battle between ...

Danny Roane: First Time Director

Danny Roane: First Time Director

2006

as Self

4.1
Acting

A television actor drinks too much and gets blackballed from the industry, and then he decides to break back in by directing his own movie. Eventually...

Standing Still

Standing Still

2005

as Simon

5.5
Acting

A chain reaction of confrontations and romantic encounters occurs when college friends reunite for one's wedding.

Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party

Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party

2004

as Self

6.1
Acting

Directed by the wife of 'That Kevin Smith', Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, a feature length documentary looking at the behind the scenes making of JAY AND...

Dawson's Creek - The Series Finale (Extended Cut)

Dawson's Creek - The Series Finale (Extended Cut)

2003

as Dawson Leery

Acting

With its series-finale episode, Dawson's Creek summed up its six-year run on the WB Network with a sweet and sad tale of reunion and farewell for old ...

The Rules of Attraction

The Rules of Attraction

2002

as Sean Bateman

6.2
Acting

The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a...

Texas Rangers

Texas Rangers

2001

as Lincoln Rogers Dunnison

6.0
Acting

Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexi...

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

2001

as James Van Der Beek (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that l...

Scary Movie

Scary Movie

2000

as Dawson Leary (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up...

Harvest

1999

as James Peterson

3.0
Acting

A DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply...

Varsity Blues

Varsity Blues

1999

as Jonathan 'Mox' Moxon

6.2
Acting

In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday ...

I Love You, I Love You Not

I Love You, I Love You Not

1996

as Tony

5.1
Acting

A school student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.

Angus

Angus

1995

as Rick Sandford

6.6
Acting

Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only one girl, Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks ...

Rocking the Boat

N/A

Acting

The pic is a female-driven comedy inspired by the hilarious real-life phenomenon of boy bands such as Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block throwi...

Sidelined 2: Intercepted

N/A

as Leroy Lahey

Acting

Freshman star quarterback Drayton struggles with the weight of expectations after a devastating setback, while dancer Dallas begins to question the fu...