Duncan Penwarden

Duncan Penwarden (born William Duncan Penwarden; February 9, 1880 – September 13, 1930) was a Nova Scotia-born Canadian 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. He and his wife, Gertrude, had two sons. Several years before his death, Penwarden applied to become a United States citizen, although it is unclear is he was ever sworn in as a naturalized U.S. citizen.[1]

Filmography

Broadway roles

Death

He died, aged 50, at his home in Jackson Heights, Queens from pneumonia, in 1930, several weeks after surgery.[2]

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