Major Frank Pease (September 22, 1879 - January 12, 1959) was president of the Hollywood Technical Directors Institute, an anti-communist activist organization during the 1920s and 1930s.

On December 13, 1907, he married Belle de Mille Norris, 26, in Chicago while he was an art student studying sculpture.

He received a medical discharge in 1905 at the Presidio in San Francisco after serving at Cotabato, Philippines, where his right leg was amputated.

In Chicago, he briefly joined the Spirit Fruit Society commune, which eschewed materialism and advocated ending private property ownership.

He embraced for a short period the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a radical union, agitated against marital laws, supported prison reform and women's suffrage and welcomed unorthodox religions and cults.

[3] Living a transient life for several years, he worked as a Red Cross field director in Fort Worden Point, Townsend, WA, during World War I.

Pease characterized the film as "filthy" because it undermined the beliefs in the army and its chief source of inspiration originated from the Soviet Union.

[2] Shortly after his attacks on the Milestone film, Pease turned his attention to Sergei Eisenstein, the Russian Jewish filmmaker best known for "Ten Days that Shook the World" and "Battleship Potemkin."

Paramount Studios invited Eisenstein to make pictures, and gave him a $100,000 contract and wide latitude to pursue film projects.

He had no organized following and was often dismissed as a crank, but he also knew how to rattle studio bosses who were more concerned with accusations of being un-American than his anti-Semitic attacks.

A combination of Eisenstein's cinematic vision, which clashed with Paramount's, and the negative publicity led to the director's departure.

According to an International News Service dispatch to a Boston newspaper in July 1932, he and Mabelle were deported by the British government on charges of "activities against the public interest.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency tracked Pease's activities throughout the 1930s, documenting his work as a fascist and anti-Semitic pamphleteer.

(1936), which alleged that Richard Hauptmann was framed for the Lindbergh kidnapping, and "Technicians and Revolution: An Expose of Communist Tactics For Overthrowing The State" (1939)' [2] Pease died in Dade County, FL, in 1959 and buried at Arlington National Cemetery.