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