Zane Buzby

Zane Buzby is an American film and television director, actress, and philanthropist.

She directed the Married... with Children episode "Whose Room Is It Anyway".

Biography

Zane Buzby grew up in New York and graduated with honors from Hofstra University with degrees in performance and dramatic literature. She began her show business career as an assistant film editor working for The Beatles' Apple Films on The Concert for Bangladesh, and The Holy Mountain by filmmaker Alexjandro Jodorowsky. Her first major acting credit was in the Carl Reiner film Oh, God! (1977). She appeared in films such as Up in Smoke (1978), Americathon (1979) (opposite John Ritter), National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982), and This Is Spinal Tap (1984). She also co-starred in and directed the feature film comedy, Last Resort (1986), starring Charles Grodin.

She later became a television director mentored by James Burrows and producer Edgar J. Scherick. Buzby went on to amass over 200 directing credits in episodic television, directing episodes of The Golden Girls, Newhart, Head of the Class, My Two Dads, The Van Dyke Show, Charles in Charge, Blossom, and Sister, Sister. She also directed the pilot of Paramount's Sister, Sister and the pilot of HBO's comedy concert "Women of the Night". Buzby executive produced and co-produced several pilots including The Rock starring Joy Behar. as he had a television production/development deal at Paramount working with her partner Conan Berkeley.

Buzby has devoted herself to philanthropy, assisting Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe. She is the founder of The Survivor Mitzvah Project, an urgent humanitarian effort bringing emergency aid to the last survivors of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. She is also the founder of SMP's Holocaust Educational Archive, a growing repository of thousands of letters from survivors and hundreds of hours of videotape shot in five countries in Eastern Europe, depicting never before recorded testimony and locations illustrating the "Holocaust in the East."