Stephen Collins

ActorDirector Oct 1 (age 78) Des Moines, Iowa, USA 1971–2025 (54 year career)

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Biography

Stephen Collins is an American former actor born on October 1, 1947, in Des Moines, Iowa. He is best known for his role as Eric Camden, the family patriarch on the television series "7th Heaven," which aired from 1996 to 2007. Collins also played notable roles such as Commander Willard Decker in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979) and had television roles in series like "No Ordinary Family" and "Revolution." He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and graduated cum laude from Amherst Col…

Known For

Film

Blood Diamond

Ambassador Walker

Film

All the President's Men

Hugh Sloan

Film

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Captain William Decker

Film

The First Wives Club

Aaron Paradis

Film

Brewster's Millions

Warren Cox

Film

No Ordinary Family

Dr. Dayton King

Film

Revolution

Gene Porter

Film

Drive Me Crazy

Mr. Maris

Filmography

Acting (75)

Movies (40)

The Three Stooges

2012

as Mr. Harter

5.8

Hole in the Paper Sky

2008

as Mr. Benson

Every Second Counts

2008

as Joe Preston

4.8

Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth

as Dancing Alien

Because I Said So

as Joe

Blood Diamond

as Ambassador Walker

The Commission

as Joseph A. Ball

Jumping Ship

as Gardner

Drive Me Crazy

as Mr. Maris

As Time Runs Out

as Dan Carlin

An Unexpected Life

as Sam Sadwich

The First Wives Club

as Aaron Paradis

The Babysitter's Seduction

as Bill Bartrand

An Unexpected Family

as Sam

On Seventh Avenue

as Tom Aiken

For Love Alone: The Ivana Trump Story

1996

as Adam Graham

A Family Divided

1995

as Roger Billingsley

5.8

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

1994

as Dan Broderick

6.2

Remember

1993

as Clee Donovan

The Disappearance of Nora

as Jack Fremont

My New Gun

as Gerald Bender

A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story

as Dan Broderick

Stella

as Stephen Dallas

The Big Picture

as Attorney

Weekend War

as Capt. John Deason

Choke Canyon

as Dr. David Lowell

Jumpin' Jack Flash

as Marty Phillips

Brewster's Millions

as Warren Cox

Dark Mirror

as Dr. Jim Eiseley

Threesome

as Peter Hatten

Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner

1981

as Larrabee

Summer Solstice

as Josh

Loving Couples

as Greg

The Henderson Monster

1980

as Pete Casimir

4.0

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1979

as Captain William Decker

The Promise

as Michael Hillyard

Fedora

as Young Barry

Between the Lines

as Michael

All the President's Men

1976

as Hugh Sloan

7.7

Brinks: The Great Robbery

1976

as Agent Donald Nash

Television (35)

Hollywood Demons

2025

as Self (archive footage)

Devious Maids

as Philippe Delatour

Scandal

as Reed Wallace

Revolution

as Gene Porter

No Ordinary Family

as Dr. Dayton King

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2009

as Self

7.3

Private Practice

2007

as "The Captain" Montgomery

Brothers and Sisters

as Charlie

The Office

as Walter Bernard, Sr.

8.6

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

2005

as Bruce Mathis

8.3

On Air with Ryan Seacrest

as Self

The Tony Danza Show

as Self - Guest

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

as Self

Good Day Live

as Self

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Pierson Bartlett

7.9

Batman Beyond

1999

as Tony Maychek / Earthmover (voice)

The View

as Self

7th Heaven

as Eric Camden

Scarlett

as Ashley Wilkes

A Woman Named Jackie

as John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Working It Out

Tattingers

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

1987

as Billy Grenville Jr.

Hold the Dream

as Shane O'Neill

The Hitchhiker

as Todd Fields

Chiefs

as Billy Lee

Tales of the Gold Monkey

1982

as Jake Cutter

7.4

Inside the Third Reich

1982

as Karl Hanke

The Rhinemann Exchange

as David Spaulding

Charlie's Angels

as Steve Carmody

Battle of the Network Stars

Good Heavens

The Michele Lee Show

The Waltons

Great Performances

as Morton Fullerton

Crew (1)

Television (1)

7th Heaven

1996

Director

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