Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Carl wrote his biography of the combat he faced in Viet Nam in a book titled 'The Blue Spaders' in 1992, a book that a retired film producer from the the Chicago Tribune thought would make a good movie. When the screenwriter commissioned to write it died suddenly, his friend urged him to write the screenplay. Carl turned to script writing, still authoring some books, and wrote a dozen features and many shorts. In Florida, Carl joined film-makers' groups like Florida Film Network & Sunscreen Film Society, where a friend urged him to become an actor. Since then, he has acted in short films, commercials, been a featured extra in at least three major movies, and continues to write books, articles, poems, short stories, and family sitcoms. His favorite genre is comedy.