Duncan Penwarden

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

William Duncan Penwarden was born in Mabou, British Nova Scotia, the eldest of seven 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. A few years before his death Penwarden applied to became a US citizen.^[1][2]

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, due to pneumonia, in 1930.^[3]

References

External links

• IBDb profile
• Duncan Penwarden at the Internet Movie Database