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.

He died in 1930, and was survived by his Michigan-born wife, Gertrude, and their two sons.

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