COLONEL EDMUND PACE
CREATED BY:
Robert Ludlum
PORTRAYED BY:
Larry Hagman
AS SEEN IN:
'The Rhinemann Exchange'
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time
From Wikipedia:
Ed Pace [is] the man who recruited [David Spaulding] to the intelligence
services.
I like my TV characters to have shades of gray to them; all good or all bad
- boring!
Ed Pace was basically a decent man, considering the business he was in.
And he protested using David Spaulding to be the agent who would oversee the
exchange of the industrial diamonds for the gyroscopes made by the Germans. He
especially didn't like that David would not be told the truth about the deal -
Spaulding would go into the meetings thinking that the exchange would be for
money, not the diamonds (which were needed for production in Germany's war
efforts.)
Voicing that concern is probably what marked Ed Pace for assassination.
After he was killed, it was mentioned that he did have a wife, but it is unknown
if he had any children by her.
Toobworld Central, however, has a theory - Ed Pace had three sons, but none of them with Mrs. Pace.
Ed Pace liked to tom-cat around.......
Edmund Pace was born in 1897, making him 46 when we first met him. I don't
know if he was married in his early thirties, say, in 1930, but I think he had
affairs with three different women. And each of his mistresses gave birth to a
son who would grow up to look like him.
ANTHONY NELSON - Actually, I think in this case we can argue that Anthony
Nelson was Ed Pace's legitimate son, but from Pace's first marriage. This is
what the first Mrs. Pace looked like by the 1960's:
Although as you can see by this next photo, she went on a strict diet
regimen, got a face-lift and her hair dyed. The man sitting with her at the
wedding of Anthony to Jeannie is her second husband. Mr. Nelson adopted Tony
and raised him as if he was his own son.
While Pace was married to Anthony's mother, they were in Canada when the
contractions set in, so they had no choice but to hunker down in Fowler's
Corners, Ontario, to await his birth.
At that time, the Paces lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and after her second marriage, Mrs. Nelson lived there until the end of her days.
Instead, Edmund Pace - a career soldier in the military as an intelligence
officer - would have been sent wherever he was needed in the country, and even
overseas. In fact, living in Bridgeport, Connecticut, might have been the
perfect cover to keep him out of scrutiny.
Later, during the war, Colonel Pace could have used a visit back to Bridgeport to visit his son as a cover story when he first approached David Spaulding to become an operative. And years later, Tony Nelson would follow in his birth father's footsteps by also joining the military. His service in the Air Force would lead to him becoming an astronaut.
J.R. EWING - Pace's work would also have taken him to Dallas, and there he must have
romanced Miss Ellie Ewing while her husband Jock was all too often away on
business of his own. This would help to splain why J.R. doesn't look very much
like his brother Bobby, who would be the natural son of Jock Ewing......
LUTHER CHARBONNET - And then there was that trip to New Orleans, probably during Mardi Gras, which led to a drunken liaison with the mistress of the Charbonnet family. Nine
months later, little Luther was born, who would grow up to be a powerful and
very shady judge on the 'Orleans' circuit.
This idea that three characters who all looked suspiciously like an actor
named Larry Hagman were half-brothers is not new for Toobworld Central. Only the
first time it was presented, the guilty party was Jock Ewing from the Southfork
ranch outside Dallas. But although Jock might have had reason to travel to New
Orleans on business, what could have been the reason to go to Bridgeport,
Connecticut?
Anyway, if there is to be such a strong resemblance between these three men for this theory of relateeveety, shouldn't their pappy also carry that basic tele-genetic code?
BCnU!
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