Bartine Burkett

{{short description|American actress}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2017}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Bartine Burkett Zane

| image = Bartine Burkett - Aug 1920 EH.jpg

| caption = Burkett, Aug. 21, 1920 Exhibitors Herald

| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|02|09}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|05|20|1898|02|09}}

| death_place = Burbank, California, U.S.

| yearsactive = 1917–1983

| occupation = Actress

| spouse = Ralph Zane (1928-1968; his death)

}}

Bartine Burkett Zane (February 9, 1898 – May 20, 1994) was an American film actress.

Burkett had a brother, Arthur.{{cite news |title=Movie star's fiance is killed in France |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89893165/bartine-burkett/ |access-date=December 2, 2021 |work=Miami Daily Record-Herald |date=November 11, 1918 |page=1|via = Newspapers.com}} She gained acting experience in productions of the Shreveport Dramatic Club.{{cite news |title=Dramatic: Club's Play on Friday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89893762/the-shreveport-journal/ |access-date=December 2, 2021 |work=The Shreveport Journal |date=March 1, 1915 |page=5|via = Newspapers.com}}

Burkett was engaged to be married, but her fiance, an American Expeditionary Forces officer, was killed in France in 1918.

As early as 1914, Burkett worked as an extra in Famous Players–Lasky films. She progressed to feature roles by the end of that decade.{{cite web |last1=Wollstein |first1=Hans J. |title=Barttine Burkett |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/bartine-burkett-p295730 |website=AllMovie |access-date=December 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814230803/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/bartine-burkett-p295730 |archive-date=August 14, 2021}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://hollywoodtimemachine.com/bartine/the-buster-keaton-that-i-knew-by-bartine-zane|title='The Buster Keaton That I Knew'|author=Bartine Zane|work=hollywoodtimemachine.com|access-date=January 25, 2014|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411152030/https://hollywoodtimemachine.com/bartine/the-buster-keaton-that-i-knew-by-bartine-zane/|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-25-me-61853-story.html|title=Bartine Zane, 96; Silent Film and TV Actress Dies|date=May 25, 1994|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=January 1, 2014}}

She died in Burbank, California at age 96. She is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}