Borden Mace
Film producer
1920 –
Who is Borden Mace?
Francis Borden Mace, born July 23, 1920 in Beaufort, North Carolina is an American movie 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. He was also involved in the production and story development of the 1954 Joy Batchelor and John Halas animated adaptation of Animal Farm. His last Hollywood project was John Ehle's The Journey of August King.
Mace, along with his friend Ehle, was instrumental in the founding in 1980, of The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, serving as the school's first principal and deputy director. The school's library is named after Mace.
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, serving 1986–1987 as interim director.
In 1991, Mace again came out of retirement to advise on the establishment of the School of Filmmaking at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
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- Born
- Jul 23, 1920
Beaufort - Also known as
- Francis Borden Mace
- Spouses
- Grace Breslin Wingerter
( - 2001)
- Grace Breslin Wingerter
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- North Carolina
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on July 23, 2013
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