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