Biography
Stephen Weaver Collins (born October 1, 1947) is an American former actor and writer. He's best known for his roles as Eric Camden on the WB/CW television series 7th Heaven (1996-2007), Dayton King on the ABC series No Ordinary Family, Gene Porter in the NBC series Revolution, and Commander Willard Decker in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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Complete Filmography

The Three Stooges
2012
as Mr. Harter
Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry, Curly and...
Hole in the Paper Sky
2008
as Mr. Benson
A brilliant, misanthropic math genius is inexplicably drawn into an unusual friendship with a laboratory dog.

Every Second Counts
2008
as Joe Preston
Every Second Counts follows 17-year-old Brooke Preston, a gifted equestrian on the verge of becoming a world class champion. Brooke faces the biggest ...

Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth
2008
as Dancing Alien
Captain Eager is resurrected by the sprawling galactic corporation MacroSpace. His mission is to investigate the villainous Colonel Regamun, a maveric...

Because I Said So
2007
as Joe
In an effort to prevent family history from repeating itself, meddlesome mom Daphne Wilder attempts to set up her youngest daughter, Milly, with Mr. R...

Blood Diamond
2006
as Ambassador Walker
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missio...

The Commission
2003
as Joseph A. Ball
Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination o...

Jumping Ship
2001
as Gardner
Michael has big plans to show his cousin Tommy a good time aboard a luxury yacht until he discovers that the yacht he's chartered is actually an old r...

As Time Runs Out
1999
as Dan Carlin
A wealthy man races against time to save his kidnapped son whose abductor left him with a bomb set to detonate.

Drive Me Crazy
1999
as Mr. Maris
Nicole and Chase live next door to each other but are worlds apart. However, they plot a scheme to date each other in order to attract the interest an...

An Unexpected Life
1998
as Sam Sadwich
A single woman has her idyllic life disrupted when she takes in orphans. But, soon she comes to depend on the sound of little feet and couldn't think ...

An Unexpected Family
1996
as Sam
When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to ...

The First Wives Club
1996
as Aaron Paradis
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the tr...
On Seventh Avenue
1996
as Tom Aiken
A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.

The Babysitter's Seduction
1996
as Bill Bartrand
The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take over looking after the children and is gradually "s...

For Love Alone: The Ivana Trump Story
1996
as Adam Graham
Follows the triumphs and tragedies of Katrinka Kovár, a young Czechoslovakian ski prodigy who discovers high-society splendor in the arms of a wealthy...

A Family Divided
1995
as Roger Billingsley
College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roge...

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994
as Dan Broderick
The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.

Remember
1993
as Clee Donovan
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her...

The Disappearance of Nora
1993
as Jack Fremont
A beautiful woman is found stranded in the desert with no recollection of who she is or how she got there, so a casino boss makes it his mission to he...

My New Gun
1992
as Gerald Bender
Debbie Bender is a New Jersey housewife whose life is turned upside down when her husband gives her a gun for self-protection. But his plans backfire ...

A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
1992
as Dan Broderick
After sixteen years of marriage and four children, Betty Broderick's high-powered attorney husband decides to leave her for a younger woman with whom ...

Stella
1990
as Stephen Dallas
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella ...

The Big Picture
1989
as Attorney
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Stu...

Weekend War
1988
as Capt. John Deason
A group of reservists ("weekend warriors") are sent to Honduras to build a runway. Shortly after arriving an engineering group is sent to a small vill...

Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
as Marty Phillips
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown s...

Choke Canyon
1986
as Dr. David Lowell
Pilgrim Corporation has leased Choke Canyon to research physicist David Lowell for 99 years. Lowell has built an impressive research laboratory there....

Brewster's Millions
1985
as Warren Cox
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anyt...

Threesome
1984
as Peter Hatten
A New York stockbroker introduces a girlfriend to his buddy from out of town, then regrets it.

Dark Mirror
1984
as Dr. Jim Eiseley
After attorney Frank Girard is murdered, Detective Al Church suspects that Ms. Leigh Cullen is the perpetrator, as she was supposedly last seen with t...

Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Karl Hanke
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...

Summer Solstice
1981
as Josh
An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.

Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
1981
as Larrabee
An adaptation of William Gillette's play about the great Detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Loving Couples
1980
as Greg
Walter is a successful doctor, and so is his wife Evelyn. Wealthy and good-looking, they should be a happily married couple, but they're not. Walter ...

The Henderson Monster
1980
as Pete Casimir
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creati...

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979
as Captain William Decker
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take ...

The Promise
1979
as Michael Hillyard
A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

Fedora
1978
as Young Barry
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

Between the Lines
1977
as Michael
The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of...

All the President's Men
1976
as Hugh Sloan
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...

Brinks: The Great Robbery
1976
as Agent Donald Nash
In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme polic...