Career
Binder, who hails from Ontario, has worked extensively in television since the mid-1980s. Binder’s 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 . [2] [3] The film became a worldwide box-office success and won two Academy Awards.
He then moved back to television, spending four seasons as writer–producer on the CBS period drama Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman , where he also directed three episodes. [1]
In 1998 Binder created and executive-produced Little Men , an hour-long family series adapted from Louisa May Alcott’s novel and shot in Ontario. [1]
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 . [4] More recently, he worked on Transporter: The Series , and Houdini and Doyle .
In 2018 he co-wrote two episodes of Unspeakable , an eight-part miniseries for CBC Television and SundanceTV that dramatised Canada’s tainted-blood scandal. [5] [6]
Trivia
In the Stargate Atlantis episode 5x16, a hall in a secret scientific facility was called "Carl Binder Memorial Theater".
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