Biography

Frances Buss was born on June 3, 1917 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was a director and producer, known for Classified Column (1949), King's Party Line (1946) and It's a Gift (1946). She was married to William Buch. She died on January 19, 2010 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA.

She is survived by her great-nephew, Mark Spencer, and sister, Mary Buss Keating of Hilton Head, South Carolina.

She was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and in Dallas, Texas. She attended Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and performed in local theater before moving to New York City.

She was the first woman to become a full-time director at the CBS Network.

I was a camera director, primarily, I moved people around so cameras could show off what needed to be seen to best advantage.

In a 2007 interview with the Paley Center for Media on CBS reporting the Pearl Harbor Attack on December 7, 1941: We didn't have a decent map of the Hawaiian Islands and the Pacific Basin...Those of us who could helped draw crude maps and letter place names so that Richard Hubbell our newscaster, could go on the air.

In a 2005 interview for the Archive of American Television: I was put on the air almost right away...I was capable on my feet, my voice was audible -- and I had good legs.