Duncan Penwarden

 ( 1880 Births ) 

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. New York, Naturalization Records, 1882-1944 for William Duncan Penwarden (Rolls 0375-0408), dated July 27, 1927.

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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)

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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)

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Death He died, aged 50, at his home in Jackson Heights, Queens from pneumonia, in 1930, several weeks after surgery.Staff. "DUNCAN PENWARDEN, BROADWAY ACTOR, DIES; Succumbs to Pneumonia Attack Following an Operation in Denver Two Weeks Ago", The New York Times, September 14, 1930; accessed May 28, 2009.

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