Francis Borden Mace, (July 23, 1920 – November 21, 2014)[1] in Beaufort, North Carolina, was an American film producer.
Mace produced hundreds of films, many of them for the military, in a career spanning decades.
During the post World War II period he worked on numerous projects with his mentor, producer Louis de Rochemont, notably on Alfred L. Werker's quasi-biographical Lost Boundaries, which was one of the first U.S. films to feature black actors in professional positions, and which was banned in Atlanta and Memphis.
His last Hollywood project was John Ehle's The Journey of August King.
[3] Following his success with NCSSM, Mace was asked, in 1983, to advise in the founding of a similar school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois,[4] serving 1986–1987 as interim director.