Duncan Penwarden


Duncan Penwarden 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

Broadway roles

  • Broken Dishes
  • Now-a-Days
  • Gentlemen of [the Press (play)|Gentlemen of the Press]
  • The Clutching Claw
  • Scalawag
  • The Scarlet Lily
  • ''Is Zat So?''

Death

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