American actor and director

Stephen Collins

Stephen Weaver Collins 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.

Born

1947

October 1

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1940s

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1947 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-331 Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
366 Pope Damasus I is consecrated.
959 Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to Eadwig.
965 Pope John XIII is consecrated.

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The world in 1947

When Stephen arrived

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
april 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
april 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Jimmy Carter 1924–2024 American politician, 39th President of the United States (born 1924) Bonnie Parker 1910–1934 American criminal (born 1910) Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg 1910–2012 Polish-Israeli rabbi and author (born 1910) Dave Arneson 1947–2009 American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (born 1947) Donny Hathaway 1945–1979 American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1945) Duncan Edwards 1936–1958 English footballer (born 1936) Emilio Botín 1934–2014 Spanish banker and businessman (died 2014) Jeff Reardon 1955– American baseball player Marcus Stephen 1969– Nauruan weightlifter and politician, 27th President of Nauru

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Same-year contemporaries

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Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947– Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California Alain Bashung 1947– French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009) Albert Brooks 1947– American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Andrea Martin 1947– American-Canadian actress, singer, and screenwriter Ángel Nieto 1947– Spanish motorcycle racer (died 2017) Angry Anderson 1947– Australian singer and actor Anton Mosimann 1947– Swiss chef and author Assata Shakur 1947– American-Cuban criminal and activist (died 2025) Barry Melton 1947– American singer-songwriter and guitarist

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