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