A graduate of California State-Long Beach, Carter worked as journalist for many years, writing mainly for surfing magazines. In 1985, he turned to screenwriting, working on several series for Walt Disney Studios and producing the second season of the NBC "dramedy" Rags to Riches.
In 1993, Carter created the television series The X-Files, and has served as executive producer for the past four seasons of the show. Under his leadership, the series has won numerous awards, including the Golden Globe for best drama, and now ranks as one of the highest-rated shows on the Fox Network.
Carter also did a cameo on his own series as an FBI supervisor in the episodes "Anasazi" and "The Blessing Way".
So far, Carter has written three episodes for millennium, including the Pilot.
Carter has a younger brother Craig
Carter took up surfing at the age of 12 and his passion for it led him to write for and eventually spend five years editing 'surfing magazine'.
Carter has a major in journalism
Carter began dating his wife, Dori Pierson, four years after leaving college
Carter met the president of NBC Entertainment, Brandon Tartikoff, at a pickup softball game in Brentwood
Carter did a couple of pilot shows for NBC including: 'Cameo by night' and 'Brand new life'
Although it were good scripts, NBC didn't need family series at that time.
Carter's writing impressed Peter Roth, the president of Stephen J. Channell productions....he stated: "I love his feel for dialogue"
Roth moved to Twentieth century fox where he became president of TV production....shortly after that, Carter met Roth for lunch at the 20th century Fox commissary, they talked about what was not 'on the air' and the fact that giving the audience a good scare was a genre that had been absent from television for some time.
And so the X-FILES was born, based on 'The night stalker', a show were Carl Kolchak, an unlucky newspaper reporter kept stumbling upon vampires; werewolves and zombies.
The initial meetings with the network and studio executives went pretty awkward.....Carter: "I pitched it once and they said: 'No thank you'. I pitched it again and they finally said, Okey we'll buy it, leave us alone"
Carter: "When G. Anderson came into the room for casting purposes, I just knew she was Scully, she had an intensity about her; intensity always translates across the screen".
Carter's ten thirteen production were named for the producers birthday.
Who says: 'I made this' at the end of the Ten Thirteen logo ?.....Nathan Couturier, son of supervising sound editor Thierry Couturier.
More trivia to come....