Russell Owen was born on 8 January 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for With Byrd at the South Pole (1930). He was married to Ethel J McGregor. He died on 3 April 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
A reporter for the New York Times, in 1930 Russell Owen won a Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches telling the story of the Byrd expedition to the Antarctic.