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