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OverviewAI-generated
Stephen Collins, born Stephen Weaver Collins on 1 October 1947 in Des Moines, is an American film actor, stage actor, television actor and novelist. He was educated at Amherst College, and his career ran from 1974 to 2014. He is married to Faye Grant and has one child. Open Library credits him with 39 works, including Cosgrave Legacy, and MusicBrainz associates his work with the genres adult contemporary, AOR, art pop and easy listening.
Synthesized by Vinony from 30 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 39
Top works
- Cosgrave Legacy
- Three decades of change in an unmanaged Connecticut woodland /
- Leḳsiḳon ha-musiḳah ha-ḳlasit
- Implications of Mlm Marketing
- Effect of Blogging on Online Business
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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"…
Known for
- Hollywood Demons — Self (archive footage)2025
- Devious Maids — Philippe Delatour2013
- The Three Stooges — Mr. Harter2012
- Revolution — Gene Porter2012
- Scandal — Reed Wallace2012
- No Ordinary Family — Dr. Dayton King2010
- Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self2009
- Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth — Dancing Alien2008
- Every Second Counts — Joe Preston2008
- Hole in the Paper Sky — Mr. Benson2008
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1947
Discography
- Stephen Collins2003
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,062
- Total plays
- 10,787
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Collins">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,862x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 41,121x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,426x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,552x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,138x
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Key facts
- Born
- Stephen Weaver Collins , ( 1947-10-01 ) October 1, 1947 (age 78) , Des Moines, Iowa , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Amherst College
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1971–2014
- Spouses
- Marjorie Weinman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1978 ) Faye Grant ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2015 ) Jenny Nagel ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2019 )
- Relatives
- Max Collins (nephew)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stephen
- Family name
- Collins
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Des Moines
- Spouse
- Faye Grant
- Occupation
- novelist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.stephencollins.com
- Image
- Stephen Collins 2014.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Stephen Collins
- date of birth
- 1947-10-01
- birth name
- Stephen Weaver Collins
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
- social media followers
- 24988
- writing language
- English language
- end of work period
- 2014-00-00
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Stephen Weaver Collins (born October 1, 1947) is an American former actor. He is known for playing Eric Camden on the WB/CW television series 7th Heaven from 1996 to 2007. Afterwards, Collins played the roles of Dayton King on the ABC television series No Ordinary Family and Gene Porter in the NBC television series Revolution, father of Elizabeth Mitchell's character, Rachel Matheson. Before 7th Heaven, Collins was known for his roles as Commander Willard Decker in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture and pilot Jake Cutter in the ABC television series Tales of the Gold Monkey. In 2014, his career came to an end after he confessed to sexual abuse against multiple minors.
Early life
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