Lew Cody
Born
February 22, 1884
Died
May 31, 1934 (50 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Waterville, Maine, USA
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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.
The Big Parade of Comedy
Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
1964
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
1942
Shoot the Works
Axel Hanratty
1934
Private Scandal
Benjamin J. Somers
1934
Sitting Pretty
Jules Clark
1933
I Love That Man
Labels Castell
1933
By Appointment Only
Dr. Michael Travers
1933
Wine, Women and Song
Morgan Andrews
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Self
1933
File 113
M. Gaston Le Coq
1933
Under-Cover Man
Kenneth Mason
1932
The Unwritten Law
Roger Morgan
1932
Madison Square Garden
Rourke
1932
The Crusader
Jimmie Dale
1932
A Parisian Romance
Baron
1932
70,000 Witnesses
Slip Buchanan
1932
The Tenderfoot
Joe Lehman
1932
X Marks the Spot
George Howard
1931
Sporting Blood
Tip Scanlon
1931
The Common Law
Dick Carmedon
1931
Sweepstakes
Wally Weber
1931
A Woman of Experience
Otto von Lichstein
1931
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931
Three Girls Lost
William (Jack) Marriott
1931
Meet the Wife
Philip Lord
1931
Dishonored
Colonel Kovrin
1931
Beyond Victory
Lew Cavanaugh
1931
Three Rogues
Ace Beaudry
1931
Divorce Among Friends
Paul Wilcox
1930
What a Widow!
Victor
1930
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Self
1930
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
Self
1930
A Single Man
Robin Worthington
1929
Show People
Self (uncredited)
1928
The Baby Cyclone
Joe Meadows
1928
Wickedness Preferred
Anthony Dare
1928
Adam and Evil
1927
On Ze Boulevard
Gaston Pasqual
1927
The Gay Deceiver
Toto, Antoine di Tillois
1927
The Demi-Bride
Philippe Levaux
1927
Monte Carlo
Tony Townsend
1926
His Secretary
David Colman
1925
Exchange of Wives
John Rathburn
1925
A Slave of Fashion
Nicholas Wentworth
1925
Man and Maid
Sir Nicholas Thormonde
1925
The Sporting Venus
Prince Carlos
1925
1925 Studio Tour
Self
1925
So This Is Marriage?
Daniel Rankin
1924
Husbands and Lovers
Rex Phillips
1924
Hello, 'Frisco
Lew Cody
1924
Three Women
Edmund Lamont
1924
Revelation
Count Adrian de Roche
1924
Defying the Law
Pietro Savori
1924
The Woman on the Jury
George Montgomery / George Wayne
1924
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Walter Peck
1924
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Dangerous Dan McGrew
1924
Reno
Roy Tappan
1923
Lawful Larceny
Guy Tarlow
1923
Rupert of Hentzau
Rupert of Hentzau
1923
Within the Law
Joe Garson
1923
Souls for Sale
Owen Scudder
1923
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Raoul Radon
1923
Secrets of Paris
King Rudolph
1922
The Valley of Silent Men
1922
The Sign on the Door
Frank Devereaux
1921
Occasionally Yours
Bruce Sands
1920
The Butterfly Man
Sedgewick Blynn
1920
The Broken Butterfly
Darrell Thorne
1919
The Life Line
Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
1919
Our Better Selves
Willard Standish
1919
Men, Women, and Money
Cleveland Buchanan
1919
Don't Change Your Husband
Schuyler Van Sutphen
1919
Borrowed Clothes
Stuart Furth
1918
Beans
Kirk
1918
For Husbands Only
Rolin Van D'Arcy
1918
Playthings
John Hayward
1918
Mickey
Reggie Drake
1918
Painted Lips
Jim Douglass
1918
The Bride's Awakening
1918
A Branded Soul
John Rannie
1917
Should a Wife Forgive?
1915