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