Bartine Burkett
Bartine Burkett Zane (February 9, 1898 – May 20, 1994) was an American film actress. Burkett had a brother, Arthur. She gained acting experience in productions of the Shreveport Dramatic Club.
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Bartine Burkett

Exhibitors Herald (Aug. 1920) on the Internet Archive · Public domain
- Name
- Bartine Burkett Zane
- Born
- 9 February 1898
- Died
- 20 May 1994
- Place of death
- Burbank, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actress
- Spouse
- Ralph Zane (1928-1968; his death)
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Bartine Burkett Zane (February 9, 1898 – May 20, 1994) was an American film actress. Burkett had a brother, Arthur. She gained acting experience in productions of the Shreveport Dramatic Club.
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Bartine Burkett was an actress, of American nationality. The actress was born in Robeline and died in Burbank. Languages used include English.
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Burkett was engaged to be married, but her fiance, an American Expeditionary Forces officer, was killed in France in 1918. She progressed to feature roles by the end of that decade. She is best recalled for her silent comedies and her late-in-life appearances in sitcoms and TV commercials. She appeared in nearly sixty silent films before retiring upon her 1928 marriage to Ralph Leland Zane. Among her earliest co-stars and friends were Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Al St. John and Stan Laurel. In 1973, five years after her husband's death, she returned to acting, appearing in three films and a number of television programs and advertisements. She is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California.

Still with Ingram B. Pickett (1899 – 1963), Buster Keaton, and Bartine Burkett in the American film The High Sign (1921).
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Ad for the American comedy short film The Aero-Nut (1920) with Al St. John and Bartine Burkett, on pages 4726 and 4727 of the May 12, 1920 Motion Picture News.
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• Name — Bartine Burkett Zane • Born — 9 February 1898 • Died — 20 May 1994 • Place of death — Burbank, California, U.S. • Years Active — 1917–1983 • Occupation — Actress • Spouse — Ralph Zane (1928-1968; his death)
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• The Forest Nymph (1917) • The Girl and the Ring (1917) • The Magic Jazz-Bo (1917) • Mum's the Word (1918) • Clean Sweep (1918) • Hello Trouble (1918) • Hickory Hiram (1918) • Home, James (1918) • Hearts in Hock (1919) • The Aero-Nut (1920) • The Turning Point (1920) • The High Sign (1921) • Don't Write Letters (1922) • Cornered (1924) • He Who Gets Slapped (1924) • The Golden Bed (1925) • Seven Chances (1925) • Curses! (1925) • Bunco Boys and How to Beat Them (1973) • Galaxina (1980) • The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
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Robeline.
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- “Bartine Burkett”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Movie star's fiance is killed in France. Miami Daily Record-Herald. 1. November 11, 1918.
- 2.Dramatic: Club's Play on Friday. The Shreveport Journal. 5. March 1, 1915.
- 3.Wollstein, Hans J. Barttine Burkett. AllMovie.
- 4.Bartine Zane. 'The Buster Keaton That I Knew'. hollywoodtimemachine.com.
- 5.Bartine Zane, 96; Silent Film and TV Actress Dies. Los Angeles Times. May 25, 1994.
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