James Hays Eckhouse is an American actor known for playing Jim Walsh

Characters of Beverly Hills, 90210

The following is a list of characters from the first series of the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise.-Main cast:*Jennie Garth portrays Kelly Taylor, the gradual main character who appears throughout the entirety of the series , maturing from "spoiled teen vixen to grounded 25-year-old." Kelly endured...

 on Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that originally aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox and was produced by Spelling Television in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise...

from 1990 to 1995. He also directed three episodes of the show. In reality, Eckhouse was only 14 years older than the actor portraying his television son, Jason Priestley

Jason Priestley

Jason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-American actor and director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to recognition in the early 1990s....

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Before his part on Beverly Hills, 90210, Eckhouse played an extra in such films as Trading Places

Trading Places

Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film, of the satire genre, directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of an upper class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet...

(as Eddie Murphy's prison guard) and he had bit roles in the films Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American thriller blended with horror, directed by Adrian Lyne and stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer. The film centers around a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end, resulting in emotional blackmail, stalking...

and Cocktail. He was a series regular on Beverly Hills, 90210 from the pilot episode in 1990 until the end of the fifth season in 1995.

As of November 2009, and still being broadcast as of January 2011, Eckhouse appears in a commercial for V8

V8 (beverage)

V8 Vegetable Juice is a trademark name for beverage products sold worldwide and made from either seven vegetables plus tomatoes or a mixture of vegetables, tomatoes, and other fruits...

 vegetable juice.

Personal life

James studied briefly at MIT before beginning his acting career. Eckhouse is Jewish. Eckhouse lives and works in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Sheila Keliher Walsh, have two sons, James Gabriel Eckhouse (Gabe) and John Alexander Eckhouse (Zander). Gabe is a former student at Deep Springs College

Deep Springs College

Deep Springs is a private, all-male , alternative college in Deep Springs, California, in the United States. A two-year college, the institution currently aims for a student body size of 26, though the number is occasionally lower...

 and currently attends UC Berkeley. Zander is studying film at NYU

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

 and currently has a starring role on ABC Family

ABC Family

ABC Family, stylized as abc family, is an American television network, owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company...

's series Huge

Huge (TV series)

Huge is a short lived American drama series that aired on the ABC Family television network. The series is based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Sasha Paley. The hour-long drama series revolves around eight teens sent to a summer weight-loss camp called Camp Victory...

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