Television producer Harvey Frand died 23 July 2009 of respiratory problems. Born 3 October 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he shared a 2008 Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class—Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Programs for Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks with Ronald D. Moore and David Eick. He also shared two AFI Awards and a Peabody for BSG.
In addition to his work on Battlestar Galactica, his other genre productions include Bionic Woman (2007), Painkiller Jane (2005), Up, Up, and Away! (2000), Strange World (1999), The Pretender (1996-97), The Lazarus Man (1996), New Eden (1994), Into the Badlands (1991), and The Twilight Zone (1985-87).
He also produced more than a score of television pilots and movies of the week, and was a producer of the 1975 Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth.
Frand studied political science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a master’s degree, before beginning his tv career working at NBC News. He was later an executive for Warner Bros. He is survived by his domestic partner, Bill Bowersock, with whom he had lived since 1977.