Duncan Penwarden

Duncan Penwarden (born William Duncan Penwarden; February 9, 1880 – September 13, 1930) was a Canadian-American film and stage actor.

Penwarden was born in Mabou, British Nova Scotia, the eldest of seven siblings raised by English immigrants, Robert and Eva Penwarden. His father worked as a caretaker at a local newspaper office in Winnipeg where Duncan Pendwarden was raised before coming to America in his early twenties. Several years before his death, Penwarden applied to become a United States citizen, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1927. He died in 1930, and was survived by his Michigan-born wife, Gertrude, and their two sons.

Filmography Laughter (1930) The Lady Lies (1929) Gentlemen of the Press (1929) The Bishop's Candlesticks (1929) The Woman God Sent (1920) The Imp (1919)

Broadway roles Broken Dishes (November 5, 1929 – April 1930) Now-a-Days (August 5, 1929 – August 1929) Gentlemen of the Press (August 27, 1928 – December 1928) The Clutching Claw (February 14, 1928 – March 1928) Scalawag (March 29, 1927 – April 1927) The Scarlet Lily (January 29, 1927 – March 1927) Is Zat So? (January 5, 1925 – July 1926)

Death He died, aged 50, at his home in Jackson Heights, Queens from pneumonia, in 1930, several weeks after surgery.