Stephen Collins
Stephen Collins
Stephen Weaver Collinsis an American actor, writer, director, and musician, 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 as Dr. Dayton King on the short-lived ABC TV series No Ordinary Family. He also appeared in a supporting role in the TV series Revolution as Dr. Gene Porter, father of Elizabeth Mitchell's character Rachel Matheson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth1 October 1947
CityDes Moines, IA
CountryUnited States of America
You have to draw on different sides of yourself. So I think if people watch a lot of any actor's work, they can sort of get to know them.
In a million years, I never thought I would play some sort of iconic image of fatherhood. I'm tremendously grateful for it.
Boone County is a much tougher game for us because it's a rivalry game. Unfortunately, we've been talking about playing a full 80 minutes all year and we always seen to take five or ten minutes off. When you do that, anything can happen.
My brother Mike is a great father, truly one of the best people I know. He also is a guy who keeps his sense of humor around his family.
We haven't beaten them in at least four years and that could've had something to do with it. We came out sluggish in the first 20 minutes and were lucky it was only a 1-0 game. They had quite a few quality shots and many more shots than we did.
I'd be happy to do Star Trek again, if the writing was right.
She is really a full-blown, beautiful young woman and a nice person. She's very busy on the big screen now.
Most of the things at home, when people are angry, when I can remember to have a sense of humor about it, it almost always goes better.
Much of this season is about her growing up, because she was 6 when we started. I don't think this season is going to differ much, though, and that's what has kept us going. We're not a high concept show that has found an audience by stunts or weird guest stars.
The rector of the church I attend is somebody I see almost every Sunday and he gives me wonderful feedback, he was someone I called on very early.
The next day, we all met in Aaron Spelling's office and read the script out loud. It was pretty magical - as if we'd known each other all our lives.
It was a gift to be able to work on a show that gave so many people pure joy.
I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.
The WB really had no profile then. (Producer) Aaron Spelling hadn't done a show like this in a long time.