Stephen Collins Stephen Weaver Collins from Des Moines , Iowa is the actor who portrayed Will Decker in the film . He is best known for his role as Reverend Eric Camden on the television series " 7th Heaven " , which concluded its eleven season run in May 2007 . Co - starring with him as his wife on this series was Catherine Hicks , the actress who played Gillian Taylor in ; the show also starred and guest star Christopher Michael . His father - in - law on the series was played by TNG guest actor Graham Jarvis . An alumnus of Amherst College , Collins made his film debut only three years before " Star Trek : The Motion Picture " was released , with a supporting role in the highly acclaimed drama " All the President ' s Men " . Co - starring in this film were fellow " Star Trek " alumni F . Murray Abraham , Gene Dynarski , Richard Herd , Nicholas Coster and Paul Lambert . He went on to co - star with Michael J . Pollard , Richard Cox , and Robert Costanzo in 1977 ' s " Between the Lines " , and , in the same year " Star Trek : The Motion Picture " was released , he co - starred with fellow " Star Trek " movie performers Bibi Besch and Laurence Luckinbill in " The Promise " . Other film credits include " Loving Couples " ( 1980 , with Sally Kellerman and John de Lancie ) , " Jumpin ' Jack Flash " ( 1986 , co - starring Whoopi Goldberg ) , and a cameo in " The Big Picture " ( 1989 , with Michael McKean and Teri Hatcher ) . More recent films include " The First Wives Club " ( 1996 ) , " Drive Me Crazy " ( 1999 ) , and 2003 ' s " The Commission " , in which he co - starred with the likes of Jim Beaver , Corbin Bernsen , Henry Gibson , and Glenn Morshower . Collins most recently appeared in the acclaimed 2006 thriller " Blood Diamond " and had a major supporting role in the 2007 romantic comedy " Because I Said So " . He had an Emmy - nominated role in the 1987 made - for - TV movie " The Two Mrs . Grenvilles " , co - starring Alan Oppenheimer and John Rubinstein . Other TV movies in which he starred include " The Henderson Monster " ( 1980 , with Nehemiah Persoff ) , " Sherlock Holmes " ( 1981 , with Frank Langella and Dwight Schultz ) , " A Woman Scorned : The Betty Broderick Story " ( 1992 , with Thomas Kopache , Stephen Root , and Susanna Thompson ) , " Remember " ( 1993 , with Gail Strickland ) , and " On Seventh Avenue " ( 1996 , with Anthony Zerbe and Josh Pais ) . He has also co - starred with fellow " Trek " performers on a number of TV miniseries : 1977 ' s " The Rhinemann Exchange " with Rene Auberjonois and John Hoyt ; 1982 ' s " The Blue and the Gray " , with Paul Winfield , Gregg Henry , William Lucking , Charles Napier , Duncan Regehr , and Noble Willingham ; 1983 ' s " Chiefs " , with Paul Sorvino and Leon Rippy ; 1991 ' s " A Woman Named Jackie " , with Bob Gunton and Tim Ransom ; and 1994 ' s " Scarlett " , with Colm Meaney and Paul Winfield . Collins has appeared in a recurring role as Bruce in " It ' s Always Sunny in Philadelphia " ( 2006 ) and as Dr . Dayton King in the science fiction drama series " No Ordinary Family " ( 2010 - 2011 , with Jimmy Bennett , Autumn Reeser , and Reggie Lee ) . One of his more recent television appearances has been as a doctor in the series " Revolution " , co - starring Steven Culp . Collins ' most recent lead role was as philandering murderous millionaire Phillipe Delatour on the Lifetime drama series " Devious Maids " co - starring Brett Cullen . On October 8 , 2014 , a recording was released in which Collins confessed to his then wife Faye Grant that he had molested several underage girls prior to 2012 . Following the audio ' s release , Collins was fired from production on Seth MacFarlane ' s " Ted 2 " . The Christian cable network Up responded to the scandal by pulling " 7th Heaven " from air . Reports that the actor had shot and killed himself later that night proved to be false . In December 2014 , he admitted that the allegations of sexual abuse were true .