Stephen Weaver Collins is an American actor, writer, director, and musician, perhaps best known for playing Eric Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven. He is also known for the roles of Captain Will Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more recently...
Faye Grant (m. 1985), Marjorie Weinman (m. 1970–1978)
Children
Kate Collins
Parents
Cyrus Collins, Madeleine Robertson
Nicknames
Stephen Weaver Collins
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Parental Unit
Movies
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Because I Said So, The First Wives Club, All the President's Men, The Three Stooges, Drive Me Crazy, Blood Diamond, Jumpin' Jack Flash, A Woman Named Jackie, Brewster's Millions, A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story, The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, My New Gun, Choke Can...
TV Shows
Revolution, No Ordinary Family, 7th Heaven, Sisters, Tattingers, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Working It Out, The Rhinemann Exchange, The Michele Lee Show
Best known by the public (and by many sci-fi fans) for his role as Commander Willard Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
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While attending Amherst College, he was an active member of their (mainly a cappella) choral group, the Zumbyes (Class of 1969). In 1968, on a yearly LP released by the group, he was the featured singer (as Steve Collins) on "California Dreamin'". Also in the group at that time, singing bass, was David Eisenhower (Class of 1970). Eisenhower was the grandson of the former President, and soon-to-be son-in-law to the next President, Richard Nixon, who had been Vice-President to his grandfather.
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Is an accomplished guitarist and songwriter.
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Attended and graduated from Hastings High School in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. In 2003, he was the guest speaker at the high school graduation.
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Is the author of two novels: "Eye Contact" and "Double Exposure".
Said in an interview that he felt very much like an outsider during the filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), where he played Commander Willard Decker, a feeling that he actually tried to capitalize on in his characterization of Decker.
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Is a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation.
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Reverend Eric Camden, Collins's character on 7th Heaven (1996), was ranked #11 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [June 20, 2004 issue].
His full name is Stephen Weaver Collins. His middle name, Weaver, is a family name on his mother's side. His great-great grandfather was General James B. Weaver, the 1880 Greenback party candidate and the 1892 Populist party candidate for President of the United States. In 1892, General Weaver won 22 electorial votes.
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He and wife Faye Grant have one daughter: Kate Collins (born 1989).
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Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1991" in John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 31.