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name: "Carleton Eastlake"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carleton-eastlake"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "23 December 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T17:06:00.666988+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Carleton Eastlake

Writer. Born 23 December 1947 in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 23 December 1947, New York City
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247613/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216937

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Farscape*](https://film.one/tv/farscape.md) (82)

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## Biography

Carleton Eastlake is a television writer and producer. He began his career in public policy and consumer protection law after graduating from UCLA and Harvard Law School, before entering television writing in the 1980s.

Eastlake wrote episodes for numerous series, including *V* (1985), *Murder, She Wrote* (1985), *The Equalizer* (1985–1987), *Airwolf* (1985), *seaQuest DSV* (1993–1996), *The Outer Limits* (1995–2002), *Earth: Final Conflict* (1997–1999), *Star Trek: Voyager* (2000) and *Farscape* (2001–2003). He also served as a producer or showrunner on several of these programmes and as an executive consultant on *Farscape*.

He has received shared Edgar and Saturn awards for his work on *The Equalizer* and *Farscape* respectively. Eastlake is a former board member of the Writers Guild of America West and past president of PEN Center USA. He is married to the novelist and screenwriter Loraine Despres.

*Sources: imdb.com, carletoneastlake.com, memory-alpha.fandom.com, go.authorsguild.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Farscape* (1999), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/farscape.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Farscape* (1999), series, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/farscape.md)
- *Earth: Final Conflict* (1997), series, Producer, Story
- *The Burning Zone* (1996), series, Writer, Producer
- *The Outer Limits* (1995), series, Writer
- *Star Trek: Voyager* (1995), series, Writer
- *seaQuest DSV* (1993), series, Writer
- *Irresistible Force* (1993), Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Street Justice* (1991), series, Writer
- *The Exile* (1991), series, Producer
- *Booker* (1989), series, Writer
- *A Man Called Hawk* (1989), series, Writer
- *The Equalizer* (1985), series, Writer
- *V* (1984), series, Writer
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, Writer
- *Airwolf* (1984), series, Story, Writer

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