Frank Pace (TV producer)

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Frank Pace (born February 14, 1950) is an American television producer and writer.

Pace was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Rose and Dominick Pace. Frank has two brothers, Bruce and Douglas. Pace graduated from Valhalla High School and went on to attain a BS degree in business from Jacksonville University, where he served on the University Board of Trustees (2006–2016).^[1] Pace lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife Karen (Huggins). They have one daughter, Erin.

Pace has more than 700 episodes of network television to his credit. He has produced 16 television pilots, of which 12 were ordered as series and five were sold into syndication. His Warner Brother TV credits include

Pace spent eight years as Vice President of The Phillips Organisation, Ltd, a San Diego–based marketing and public relations firm. At TPO, Pace supervised a young Armen Keteyian, who today is Chief Investigative Reporter for CBS News. Their collaboration on a variety of projects has continued for more than 30 years. At TPO, Pace and Keteyian were credited with creating the blueprint for short-course triathlon racing on behalf of Carl Thomas, their client at Speedo SportsWear.^[2] Their 1.5 kilometer swim, 40 km bike and 10 km run event is now a full-fledged Olympic Sport. A meeting in the spring of 1979 with Bill Rasmussen, founder of ESPN prior to that network's launching, set in motion Pace's transition from advertising to television.

Pace began his career in the now-defunct

Pace and Billy O’Connor have written three books, all published by Acclaim Press: If These Lips Could Talk, Lamar’s Gamble- A Tale of the AFL/NFL Merger and Combustible. In 2012, Pace Co-Authored Rod Carew's Hit To Win with Rod Carew and Armen Keteyian.[6] He had previously co-authored^[7] Rod Carew's Art and Science of Hitting along with Keteyian and Carew in 1986. He has also been published in Sports Illustrated, Emmy Magazine, The Florida Times Union, The Los Angeles Times, Soccer Journal^[8] and Hall of Fame Magazine.^[9]

Pace was the credited writer (and producer) on eight segments of Inside the NFL (the George Lopez segments) and an episode of George Lopez entitled The Unnatural.