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