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 became a United States citizen, although it is unclear is he was ever sworn in as a naturalized United States. citizen. 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)
He died, aged 50, at his home in Jackson Heights, Queens from pneumonia, in 1930, several weeks after surgery.
