I was very sad to find out over the weekend that Harvey Frand had died.

Who, you might ask? Harvey Frand.

Never heard of him? Well, after this, you not only will know him, but I think you will be giving him a posthumous thank you.

I only met Mr. Frand once. Back in 2007, I was one of the reporters invited up to Vancouver, British Columbia to tour different sets and do press conferences for what was then called the SciFi Channel. I had a blast, and still is one of my most memorable experiences in the 11 years I've run Airlock Alpha.

My favorite trip, of course, was to the "Battlestar Galactica" set. After a very fascinating tour of everything there, we did a press conference on the set that served as the hangar bay. We had a bunch of big names there: Michael Hogan, Grace Park, Jamie Bamber, Tahmoh Penikett, Aaron Douglas. We even had some of the brass of the SciFi Channel like Bonnie Hammer and Mark Stern.

But there was one quiet guy on the end of the group. He was introduced as Harvey Frand, a line producer for "Battlestar Galactica."

Through the entire hour interview, he just sat there quietly, and responded with smiles to all the great answers and stories that everyone else was sharing. But yet, he never said anything. No one asked him anything. I mean, many of us had never heard of him, and a few of us didn't even know what a line producer did.

I thought about asking him a question at one point, because I'm the kind of person that don't like to have people show up for an event and not be involved. But before I had a chance to ask some additional questions from my initial volley, the conference was over.

Mr. Frand didn't get upset that we had nothing to ask him. Instead, he was smiling and laughing, and was having a great time being a part of something phenomenal.

That is something that is so rare in Hollywood (or even in Hollywood North as we like to call it) where it's all about attention and fame. Mr. Frand wasn't like that at all. He showed up for the conference in case anyone had something to ask of him, and if they didn't, he was OK with it, because at least he was available. That is a very selfless act, and says a lot about someone. A whole lot.

So who is Harvey Frand? To be honest, I still don't know. I was looking through his profile on Internet Movie Database, and while there is a long listing of his career, there is no biography. Nothing about him.

IMDb says he started out as a producer for the 1979 television series "California Fever" and went on to work on the 1980s version of "The Twilight Zone" for 34 episodes between 1985 and 1987.

He worked on some television movies before moving over to the short-lived "The Lazarus Man" in 1996. After that, he would spend 18 episodes on "The Pretender" before picking up a couple of projects and then finally landing at "Battlestar Galactica" in 2003, where he would remain for the show's entire run.

In fact, he never worked on any other projects once he signed on to "Battlestar." He made that show his life.

Mr. Frand was only nominated for an Emmy twice in his life. The first time was in 1988 when he shared the nomination for Outstanding Drama Series "Beauty and the Beast." His second one would come 20 years later, and would actually be chalked up for a win, when he shared in Outstanding Special Class -- Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Programs" for the series of flashback Webisodes used for the "Battlestar Galactica" telemovie "Razor."

Mr. Frand was honored by many of the actors and crew of "Battlestar Galactica" during Bear McCreary's Friday concert at the House of Blues in San Diego. I had attended the Thursday night event, and word of Mr. Frand's death had not circulated quite yet. But Friday night, it had, and there were a lot of devastated people on the stage.

Yet, if you search the Net, there isn't very much about Mr. Frand or even his death out there that even caught notice. You do find a smattering of talk, including one from writer Mark Verheiden who said on his block that "Harvey kept the production train on the tracks and was hugely responsible for physically making the show. He was also a gentleman, and a gentle man ... truly one of a kind. He will be missed."

I don't think it can be said any better than that.

Godspeed, Harvey Frand. And thank you for everything that you've done.