Lew Cody
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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Movies (50)
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
1964
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
Shoot the Works
as Axel Hanratty
1934
Private Scandal
as Benjamin J. Somers
1934
Sitting Pretty
as Jules Clark
1933
I Love That Man
as Labels Castell
1933
By Appointment Only
as Dr. Michael Travers
1933
Wine, Women and Song
as Morgan Andrews
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as Self
1933
File 113
as M. Gaston Le Coq
1933
Under-Cover Man
as Kenneth Mason
1932
The Unwritten Law
as Roger Morgan
1932
Madison Square Garden
as Rourke
1932
The Crusader
as Jimmie Dale
1932
A Parisian Romance
as Baron
1932
70,000 Witnesses
as Slip Buchanan
1932
The Tenderfoot
as Joe Lehman
1932
X Marks the Spot
as George Howard
1931
Sporting Blood
as Tip Scanlon
1931
The Common Law
as Dick Carmedon
1931
Sweepstakes
as Wally Weber
1931
A Woman of Experience
as Otto von Lichstein
1931
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931
Three Girls Lost
as William (Jack) Marriott
1931
Meet the Wife
as Philip Lord
1931
Dishonored
as Colonel Kovrin
1931
Beyond Victory
as Lew Cavanaugh
1931
Three Rogues
as Ace Beaudry
1931
Divorce Among Friends
as Paul Wilcox
1930
What a Widow!
as Victor
1930
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
as Self
1930
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
as Self
1930
A Single Man
as Robin Worthington
1929
Show People
as Self (uncredited)
1928
The Baby Cyclone
as Joe Meadows
1928
Beau Broadway
as Jim Lambert
1928
Wickedness Preferred
as Anthony Dare
1928
Tea For Three
as Carter Langford
1927
Adam and Evil
1927
On Ze Boulevard
as Gaston Pasqual
1927
The Gay Deceiver
as Toto, Antoine di Tillois
1927
The Demi-Bride
as Philippe Levaux
1927
Monte Carlo
as Tony Townsend
1926
His Secretary
as David Colman
1925
The Tower of Lies
1925
Exchange of Wives
as John Rathburn
1925
A Slave of Fashion
as Nicholas Wentworth
1925
Man and Maid
as Sir Nicholas Thormonde
1925
The Sporting Venus
as Prince Carlos
1925
1925 Studio Tour
as Self
1925