Six degrees game: Samuel L. Jackson to James Van Der Beek?

Question

It's like the six degrees of kevin bacon, except you just pick to random actors' names and try to link them through films or shows that they've done. The links don't have to have a scene together, they just have to be credited as actors in the same film. (Ex: ann was in movie x with mark, mark was in movie y with joe, so forth) They have to be linked in under six films. Whoever does it in the least amount wins. And the two actors you start with can't have appeared in a movie together.

Answer 1

James Van Der Beek was in VARSITY BLUES with Jon Voigt who was in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE with Ving Rhames who was in PULP FICTION with Samuel L. Jackson.

Answer 2

3 steps - here's how:

Samuel L. Jackson is in Home of the Brave with Chad Michael Murray, who played Charlie Todd on Dawson's Creek, which starred James Van der Beek.

Man, I can't stand the Beek.

Answer 3

Here we go. James Van Der Beek starred in Dawson's Creek with:
Katie Holmes, who starred in Batman Begins with:
Michael Caine who starred in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with:
Ian McDiarmid, who starred in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones with:
Samuel L. Jackson.

There you go.