Lew Cody
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 22, 1884
- Died
- May 31, 1934 (aged 50)
- Birthplace
- Waterville, Maine, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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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Filmography
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie · as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Shoot the Works
Movie · as Axel Hanratty
Private Scandal
Movie · as Benjamin J. Somers
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Movie · as Self
Wine, Women and Song
Movie · as Morgan Andrews
By Appointment Only
Movie · as Dr. Michael Travers
Sitting Pretty
Movie · as Jules Clark
I Love That Man
Movie · as Labels Castell
File 113
Movie · as M. Gaston Le Coq
The Unwritten Law
Movie · as Roger Morgan
The Tenderfoot
Movie · as Joe Lehman
A Parisian Romance
Movie · as Baron
The Crusader
Movie · as Jimmie Dale
Madison Square Garden
Movie · as Rourke
Under-Cover Man
Movie · as Kenneth Mason
70,000 Witnesses
Movie · as Slip Buchanan
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Movie · as The Villain
Dishonored
Movie · as Colonel Kovrin
The Common Law
Movie · as Dick Carmedon
X Marks the Spot
Movie · as George Howard
Sweepstakes
Movie · as Wally Weber
Sporting Blood
Movie · as Tip Scanlon
Three Rogues
Movie · as Ace Beaudry
A Woman of Experience
Movie · as Otto von Lichstein
Meet the Wife
Movie · as Philip Lord
Beyond Victory
Movie · as Lew Cavanaugh
Three Girls Lost
Movie · as William (Jack) Marriott
Divorce Among Friends
Movie · as Paul Wilcox
What a Widow!
Movie · as Victor
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
Movie · as Self
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Movie · as Self
A Single Man
Movie · as Robin Worthington
Show People
Movie · as Lew Cody (uncredited)
The Baby Cyclone
Movie · as Joe Meadows
Wickedness Preferred
Movie · as Anthony Dare
Beau Broadway
Movie · as Jim Lambert
The Demi-Bride
Movie · as Philippe Levaux
The Gay Deceiver
Movie · as Toto, Antoine di Tillois
Adam and Evil
Movie
On Ze Boulevard
Movie · as Gaston Pasqual
Tea For Three
Movie · as Carter Langford
Monte Carlo
Movie · as Tony Townsend
The Sporting Venus
Movie · as Prince Carlos
A Slave of Fashion
Movie · as Nicholas Wentworth
1925 Studio Tour
Movie · as Self
His Secretary
Movie · as David Colman
Exchange of Wives
Movie · as John Rathburn
Man and Maid
Movie · as Sir Nicholas Thormonde
The Tower of Lies
Movie
Time, the Comedian
Movie · as Larry Brundage
Three Women
Movie · as Edmund Lamont
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Movie · as Walter Peck
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Movie · as Dangerous Dan McGrew
Hello, 'Frisco
Movie · as Lew Cody
Husbands and Lovers
Movie · as Rex Phillips
Revelation
Movie · as Count Adrian de Roche
Defying the Law
Movie · as Pietro Savori
So This Is Marriage?
Movie · as Daniel Rankin
The Woman on the Jury
Movie · as George Montgomery / George Wayne
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Movie · as Raoul Radon
Rupert of Hentzau
Movie · as Rupert of Hentzau
Within the Law
Movie · as Joe Garson
Lawful Larceny
Movie · as Guy Tarlow
Souls for Sale
Movie · as Owen Scudder
Reno
Movie · as Roy Tappan
The Valley of Silent Men
Movie
Secrets of Paris
Movie · as King Rudolph
The Sign on the Door
Movie · as Frank Devereaux
The Butterfly Man
Movie · as Sedgewick Blynn
Occasionally Yours
Movie · as Bruce Sands
Our Better Selves
Movie · as Willard Standish
Don't Change Your Husband
Movie · as Schuyler Van Sutphen
The Life Line
Movie · as Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
The Broken Butterfly
Movie · as Darrell Thorne
Men, Women, and Money
Movie · as Cleveland Buchanan
As the Sun Went Down
Movie · as Faro Bill
Mickey
Movie · as Reggie Drake
Beans
Movie · as Kirk
The Bride's Awakening
Movie
For Husbands Only
Movie · as Rolin Van D'Arcy
Borrowed Clothes
Movie · as Stuart Furth
Painted Lips
Movie · as Jim Douglass
Playthings
Movie · as John Hayward
The Demon
Movie · as Jim Lassells
A Branded Soul
Movie · as John Rannie
A Game of Wits
Movie · as Larry Caldwell
Should a Wife Forgive?
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