Lew Cody
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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.
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Movies (88)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Self (archive footage)
Shoot the Works
1934 · Axel Hanratty
Private Scandal
1934 · Benjamin J. Somers
Sitting Pretty
1933 · Jules Clark
I Love That Man
1933 · Labels Castell
By Appointment Only
1933 · Dr. Michael Travers
Wine, Women and Song
1933 · Morgan Andrews
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
1933 · Self
File 113
1933 · M. Gaston Le Coq
Under-Cover Man
1932 · Kenneth Mason
The Unwritten Law
1932 · Roger Morgan
Madison Square Garden
1932 · Rourke
The Crusader
1932 · Jimmie Dale
A Parisian Romance
1932 · Baron
70,000 Witnesses
1932 · Slip Buchanan
The Tenderfoot
1932 · Joe Lehman
X Marks the Spot
1931 · George Howard
Sporting Blood
1931 · Tip Scanlon
The Common Law
1931 · Dick Carmedon
Sweepstakes
1931 · Wally Weber
A Woman of Experience
1931 · Otto von Lichstein
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931 · The Villain
Three Girls Lost
1931 · William (Jack) Marriott
Meet the Wife
1931 · Philip Lord
Dishonored
1931 · Colonel Kovrin
Beyond Victory
1931 · Lew Cavanaugh
Three Rogues
1931 · Ace Beaudry
Divorce Among Friends
1930 · Paul Wilcox
What a Widow!
1930 · Victor
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
1930 · Self
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
1930 · Self
A Single Man
1929 · Robin Worthington
Show People
1928 · Lew Cody (uncredited)
The Baby Cyclone
1928 · Joe Meadows
Beau Broadway
1928 · Jim Lambert
Wickedness Preferred
1928 · Anthony Dare
Tea For Three
1927 · Carter Langford
Adam and Evil
1927
On Ze Boulevard
1927 · Gaston Pasqual
The Gay Deceiver
1927 · Toto, Antoine di Tillois
The Demi-Bride
1927 · Philippe Levaux
Monte Carlo
1926 · Tony Townsend
His Secretary
1925 · David Colman
Time, the Comedian
1925 · Larry Brundage
The Tower of Lies
1925
Exchange of Wives
1925 · John Rathburn
A Slave of Fashion
1925 · Nicholas Wentworth
Man and Maid
1925 · Sir Nicholas Thormonde
The Sporting Venus
1925 · Prince Carlos
1925 Studio Tour
1925 · Self
So This Is Marriage?
1924 · Daniel Rankin
Husbands and Lovers
1924 · Rex Phillips
Hello, 'Frisco
1924 · Lew Cody
Three Women
1924 · Edmund Lamont
Revelation
1924 · Count Adrian de Roche
Defying the Law
1924 · Pietro Savori
The Woman on the Jury
1924 · George Montgomery / George Wayne
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
1924 · Walter Peck
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
1924 · Dangerous Dan McGrew
Reno
1923 · Roy Tappan
Lawful Larceny
1923 · Guy Tarlow
Rupert of Hentzau
1923 · Rupert of Hentzau
Within the Law
1923 · Joe Garson
Souls for Sale
1923 · Owen Scudder
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
1923 · Raoul Radon
Secrets of Paris
1922 · King Rudolph
The Valley of Silent Men
1922
The Sign on the Door
1921 · Frank Devereaux
Occasionally Yours
1920 · Bruce Sands
The Butterfly Man
1920 · Sedgewick Blynn
The Broken Butterfly
1919 · Darrell Thorne
The Life Line
1919 · Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
Our Better Selves
1919 · Willard Standish
Men, Women, and Money
1919 · Cleveland Buchanan
As the Sun Went Down
1919 · Faro Bill
Don't Change Your Husband
1919 · Schuyler Van Sutphen
Borrowed Clothes
1918 · Stuart Furth
Beans
1918 · Kirk
For Husbands Only
1918 · Rolin Van D'Arcy
Playthings
1918 · John Hayward
Mickey
1918 · Reggie Drake
The Demon
1918 · Jim Lassells
Painted Lips
1918 · Jim Douglass
The Bride's Awakening
1918
A Branded Soul
1917 · John Rannie
A Game of Wits
1917 · Larry Caldwell
Should a Wife Forgive?
1915
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