Paul Collins


Biography

If one were to see the English actor Paul Collins as a gruff old congressman in "Evan Almighty," in which Morgan Freeman's God makes Steve Carell a modern-day Moses, or as one of Max Minghella's professors in the live-action graphic-novel movie "Art School Confidential," one probably would not immediately associate him with an eight-year-old boy with a top hat, glasses, black umbrella, a...

Biography

If one were to see the English actor Paul Collins as a gruff old congressman in "Evan Almighty," in which Morgan Freeman's God makes Steve Carell a modern-day Moses, or as one of Max Minghella's professors in the live-action graphic-novel movie "Art School Confidential," one probably would not immediately associate him with an eight-year-old boy with a top hat, glasses, black umbrella, and ability to fly. As an adolescent, Collins provided the voice to Wendy's bespectacled brother John in Disney's animated classic "Peter Pan." But this movie is but one credit in the actor's long career, which, at that point, had already lasted for almost a decade. In one of his earliest films, "Challenge to Lassie," the young actor managed to work with both a canine and Edmund Gwynn. After his voice changed, he found a wealth of work on TV in shows ranging from "The Jack Benny Program" to "Hawaii Five-O." He took a decade-long break from the screen that encompassed all of the 1970s, but he came back to work in films like the mystery "Without a Trace" and the McCarthy-era drama "Guilty by Suspicion," starring Robert De Niro. In the made-for-TV "George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation," Collins played John Adams and in "JAG," a military-themed courtroom drama, he was secretary of the navy for a bevy of episodes.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Evan Almighty (2007)
xXx: State of the Union (2005)
When Billie Beat Bobby (2001)
Boardmember
Instinct (1999)
A Season for Miracles (1999)
Captured (1999)
Executive Decision (1996)
Mother (1996)
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993)
Dave (1993)
For Richer, For Poorer (1992)
Secrets (1992)
Guilty By Suspicion (1991)
The Chase (1991)
Defenseless (1991)
The Marrying Man (1991)
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
So Proudly We Hail (1990)
Funny About Love (1990)
The Operation (1990)
Things That Go Bump in the Night (1989)
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (1983)
Without A Trace (1983)
Midnight Lace (1960)
Kevin
Peter Pan (1953)
Voice of John Darling
Kim (1951)
English student
Lorna Doone (1951)
Charleworth Doone, as a child
Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
Arthur
The Secret Garden (1949)
Peter
Challenge to Lassie (1949)
Child

Music (Feature Film)

Caddyshack (1980)
Song

Cast (Special)

Intimate Portrait: Bo Derek (2003)
Bo Derek: The E! True Hollywood Story (1999)
The First Gentleman (1994)
Camp California (1989)

Editing (Special)

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
On-Line Editor
Tibor Rudas Presents Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti With Levine -- The Three Tenors Live in Concert -- Paris 1998 (1998)
Editor
Singing Positive (1995)
On-Line Editor

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Joe and Max (2002)
The Breed (2001)
Dad, the Angel & Me (1995)
Long Shadows (1994)
Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage (1993)
Bloodlines: Murder in the Family (1993)
Sinatra (1992)
Westbrook Pegler (Part 1)
Family of Spies (1990)
The Neon Empire (1989)
George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986)

Film Production - Main (TV Mini-Series)

Moby Dick (1998)
Production Assistant

Life Events

Bibliography