Frances Buss Buch (June 3, 1917 – January 19, 2010) was the first female television director in the United States.
[2] In the early 1940s she relocated to New York City, where she had taken acting classes and appeared in some off-Broadway productions.
She transferred to the fledgling CBS Television two weeks after the Federal Communications Commission allowed commercial TV broadcasts in 1941.
When CBS live TV broadcasts were suspended in 1942, Buch began producing and directing U.S. Navy training films.
[3] Later that same week she began the job of producer-director for the first two color TV series to be broadcast, The World is Yours, and Modern Homemakers.