Carl Binder (born August 10, 1960) is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer. He is most noted for his contributions to the Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis series as well as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Little Men.
Binder currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Binder was born in Windsor, Ontario, on 10 August 1960. He relocated to California in his early twenties and entered the entertainment industry as a production assistant before receiving his first produced credit on the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster, scripting the 1985 episode âÂÂChristmas Shoplifting.âÂÂ
Binder, who hails from Ontario, has worked extensively in television since the mid-1980s. BinderâÂÂs breakthrough in feature writing came when Walt Disney Feature Animation hired him, together with Susannah Grant and Philip LaZebnik, to write the screenplay for Pocahontas. The film became a worldwide box-office success and won two Academy Awards.
He then moved back to television, spending four seasons as writerâÂÂproducer on the CBS period drama Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, where he also directed three episodes.
In 1998 Binder created and executive-produced Little Men, an hour-long family series adapted from Louisa May AlcottâÂÂs novel and shot in Ontario.
Binder was set to co-write the third Stargate SG-1 movie with Brad Wright and served as an executive producer for the Stargate series Stargate Universe. More recently, he worked on ', and Houdini and Doyle.
In 2018 he co-wrote two episodes of Unspeakable, an eight-part miniseries for CBC Television and SundanceTV that dramatised CanadaâÂÂs tainted-blood scandal.
In the Stargate Atlantis episode 5x16, a hall in a secret scientific facility was called "Carl Binder Memorial Theater".