Lew Cody
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lew Cody (February 22, 1884 – May 31, 1934) was an American stage and film actor whose career spanned the silent film and early sound film age. He gained notoriety in the late 1910s for playing "male vamps" in films such as Don't Change Your Husband. Early life and career Cody was born Louis Joseph Côté to Joseph Côté and Elizabeth Côté, née Gifford. His father was French Canadian and his mother was a native of Maine. Cody and his younger brothers and sisters were born in Waterville, Maine. The family later moved to Berlin, New Hampshire where Cody's father owned a drug store. In his youth, Cody worked at his father's drug store as a soda jerk. He later enrolled at McGill University in Montreal where he intended to study medicine but abandoned the idea of setting up in practice and joined a theatre stock company in North Carolina. He made his debut on the stage in New York in Pierre of the Plains. Cody later moved to Los Angeles and began a film career with Thomas Ince. Cody had at least 99 film credits during a twenty-year period between 1914 and 1934. Personal life Cody was married three times. His first two marriages were to actress Dorothy Dalton. They first married in 1910 and divorced in 1911. They remarried in 1913 and were divorced a second time in 1914. Cody married Mabel Normand in 1926. They remained married until Normand's death from tuberculosis in February 1930. Death On May 31, 1934, Cody died of heart attack in his sleep at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He is buried in St. Peter's Cemetery, Lewiston, Maine in the family plot.
Known For
Robin Worthington
A Single Man
Self
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Raoul Radon
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Philippe Levaux
The Demi-Bride
Roger Morgan
The Unwritten Law
Reggie Drake
Mickey
Colonel Kovrin
Dishonored
Morgan Andrews
Wine, Women and Song
Willard Standish
Our Better Selves
Rupert of Hentzau
Rupert of Hentzau
Dick Carmedon
The Common Law
George Howard
X Marks the Spot
Joe Lehman
The Tenderfoot
Dr. Michael Travers
By Appointment Only
Jules Clark
Sitting Pretty
Joe Garson
Within the Law
Wally Weber
Sweepstakes
Baron
A Parisian Romance
Guy Tarlow
Lawful Larceny
Jimmie Dale
The Crusader
Tip Scanlon
Sporting Blood
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Edmund Lamont
Three Women
Rourke
Madison Square Garden
Ace Beaudry
Three Rogues
Walter Peck
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Otto von Lichstein
A Woman of Experience
Philip Lord
Meet the Wife
Owen Scudder
Souls for Sale
Roy Tappan
Reno
Dangerous Dan McGrew
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Tony Townsend
Monte Carlo
Toto, Antoine di Tillois
The Gay Deceiver
Kenneth Mason
Under-Cover Man
Labels Castell
I Love That Man
Prince Carlos
The Sporting Venus
Lew Cavanaugh
Beyond Victory
Paul Wilcox
Divorce Among Friends
Frank Devereaux
The Sign on the Door
Self (uncredited)
Show People
Victor
What a Widow!
Schuyler Van Sutphen
Don't Change Your Husband
Nicholas Wentworth
A Slave of Fashion
Lew Cody
Hello, 'Frisco
Slip Buchanan
70,000 Witnesses
Joe Meadows
The Baby Cyclone
Rex Phillips
Husbands and Lovers
Kirk
Beans
M. Gaston Le Coq
File 113
The Bride's Awakening
Self
1925 Studio Tour
Rolin Van D'Arcy
For Husbands Only
Count Adrian de Roche
Revelation
Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
The Life Line
The Valley of Silent Men
Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Stuart Furth
Borrowed Clothes
Darrell Thorne
The Broken Butterfly
David Colman
His Secretary
Adam and Evil
King Rudolph
Secrets of Paris
Jim Douglass
Painted Lips
Axel Hanratty
Shoot the Works
Sedgewick Blynn
The Butterfly Man
Pietro Savori
Defying the Law
John Rathburn
Exchange of Wives
Sir Nicholas Thormonde
Man and Maid
Gaston Pasqual
On Ze Boulevard
Daniel Rankin
So This Is Marriage?
George Montgomery / George Wayne
The Woman on the Jury
William (Jack) Marriott
Three Girls Lost
Self
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
John Rannie
A Branded Soul
Anthony Dare
Wickedness Preferred
John Hayward
Playthings
Should a Wife Forgive?
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
77
Gender
Male
Birthday
1884-02-22
Place of Birth
Waterville, Maine, USA
Also Known As
Louis Joseph Côté