Lew Cody
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1884-02-22
Day of Death
1934-05-31 (50 years old)
Place of Birth
Waterville, Maine, USA
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.
Known For
Acting
(1964)
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
(1942)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
(1934)
Private Scandal
as Benjamin J. Somers
(1934)
Shoot the Works
as Axel Hanratty
(1933)
I Love That Man
as Labels Castell
(1933)
Sitting Pretty
as Jules Clark
(1933)
By Appointment Only
as Dr. Michael Travers
(1933)
Wine, Women and Song
as Morgan Andrews
(1933)
File 113
as M. Gaston Le Coq
(1933)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as Self
(1932)
A Parisian Romance
as Baron
(1932)
The Unwritten Law
as Roger Morgan
(1932)
Madison Square Garden
as Rourke
(1932)
70,000 Witnesses
as Slip Buchanan
(1932)
The Crusader
as Jimmie Dale
(1932)
Under-Cover Man
as Kenneth Mason
(1932)
The Tenderfoot
as Joe Lehman
(1931)
Dishonored
as Colonel Kovrin
(1931)
The Common Law
as Dick Carmedon
(1931)
Sporting Blood
as Tip Scanlon
(1931)
Three Rogues
as Ace Beaudry
(1931)
A Woman of Experience
as Otto von Lichstein
(1931)
X Marks the Spot
as George Howard
(1931)
Three Girls Lost
as William (Jack) Marriott
(1931)
Sweepstakes
as Wally Weber
(1931)
Beyond Victory
as Lew Cavanaugh
(1931)
Meet the Wife
as Philip Lord
(1931)
(1930)
Divorce Among Friends
as Paul Wilcox
(1930)
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
as Self
(1930)
What a Widow!
as Victor
(1930)
(1929)
A Single Man
as Robin Worthington
(1928)
Show People
as Self (uncredited)
(1928)
The Baby Cyclone
as Joe Meadows
(1928)
Wickedness Preferred
as Anthony Dare
(1927)
(1927)
The Gay Deceiver
as Toto, Antoine di Tillois
(1927)
The Demi-Bride
as Philippe Levaux
(1927)
On Ze Boulevard
as Gaston Pasqual
(1926)
Monte Carlo
as Tony Townsend
(1925)
Exchange of Wives
as John Rathburn
(1925)
The Sporting Venus
as Prince Carlos
(1925)
1925 Studio Tour
as Self
(1925)
A Slave of Fashion
as Nicholas Wentworth
(1925)
Man and Maid
as Sir Nicholas Thormonde
(1925)
His Secretary
as David Colman
(1924)
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
as Walter Peck
(1924)
Husbands and Lovers
as Rex Phillips
(1924)
The Woman on the Jury
as George Montgomery / George Wayne
(1924)
So This Is Marriage?
as Daniel Rankin
(1924)
Defying the Law
as Pietro Savori
(1924)
Three Women
as Edmund Lamont
(1924)
Revelation
as Count Adrian de Roche
(1924)
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
as Dangerous Dan McGrew
(1924)
Hello, 'Frisco
as Lew Cody
(1923)
Reno
as Roy Tappan
(1923)
Souls for Sale
as Owen Scudder
(1923)
Rupert of Hentzau
as Rupert of Hentzau
(1923)
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Raoul Radon
(1923)
Lawful Larceny
as Guy Tarlow
(1923)
Within the Law
as Joe Garson
(1922)
Secrets of Paris
as King Rudolph
(1922)
(1921)
The Sign on the Door
as Frank Devereaux
(1920)
The Butterfly Man
as Sedgewick Blynn
(1920)
Occasionally Yours
as Bruce Sands
(1919)
The Broken Butterfly
as Darrell Thorne
(1919)
Our Better Selves
as Willard Standish
(1919)
The Life Line
as Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
(1919)
As the Sun Went Down
as Faro Bill
(1919)
Don't Change Your Husband
as Schuyler Van Sutphen
(1919)
Men, Women, and Money
as Cleveland Buchanan
(1918)
Painted Lips
as Jim Douglass
(1918)
Mickey
as Reggie Drake
(1918)
Beans
as Kirk
(1918)
Playthings
as John Hayward
(1918)
(1918)
Borrowed Clothes
as Stuart Furth
(1918)
For Husbands Only
as Rolin Van D'Arcy
(1917)
A Branded Soul
as John Rannie
(1915)