1884-02-22 Waterville, Maine, USA
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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The Big Parade of Comedy | Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited) | 1964-09-02 |
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage) | 1942-01-01 |
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Shoot the Works | Axel Hanratty | 1934-07-18 |
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Private Scandal | Benjamin J. Somers | 1934-05-11 |
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Wine, Women and Song | Morgan Andrews | 1933-03-27 |
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File 113 | M. Gaston Le Coq | 1933-01-05 |
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I Love That Man | Labels Castell | 1933-07-07 |
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Sitting Pretty | Jules Clark | 1933-11-23 |
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By Appointment Only | Dr. Michael Travers | 1933-07-06 |
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 | Self | 1933-01-12 |
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A Parisian Romance | Baron | 1932-10-01 |
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Under-Cover Man | Kenneth Mason | 1932-12-02 |
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70,000 Witnesses | Slip Buchanan | 1932-09-09 |
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The Crusader | Jimmie Dale | 1932-10-04 |
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Madison Square Garden | Rourke | 1932-11-04 |
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The Tenderfoot | Joe Lehman | 1932-05-23 |
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The Unwritten Law | Roger Morgan | 1932-11-26 |
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Dishonored | Colonel Kovrin | 1931-04-04 |
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Three Rogues | Ace Beaudry | 1931-03-08 |
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X Marks the Spot | George Howard | 1931-12-13 |
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A Woman of Experience | Otto von Lichstein | 1931-07-08 |
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Sweepstakes | Wally Weber | 1931-07-10 |
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands | The Villain | 1931-06-15 |
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The Common Law | Dick Carmedon | 1931-07-17 |
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Three Girls Lost | William (Jack) Marriott | 1931-04-19 |
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Beyond Victory | Lew Cavanaugh | 1931-04-03 |
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Sporting Blood | Tip Scanlon | 1931-08-08 |
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Meet the Wife | Philip Lord | 1931-04-16 |
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What a Widow! | Victor | 1930-09-12 |
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Divorce Among Friends | Paul Wilcox | 1930-12-13 |
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 5 | Self | 1930-02-01 |
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 | Self | 1930-09-01 |
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A Single Man | Robin Worthington | 1929-01-12 |
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The Baby Cyclone | Joe Meadows | 1928-09-26 |
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Show People | Lew Cody (uncredited) | 1928-11-20 |
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Wickedness Preferred | Anthony Dare | 1928-01-28 |
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Beau Broadway | Jim Lambert | 1928-08-15 |
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Adam and Evil | 1927-08-27 | |
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The Demi-Bride | Philippe Levaux | 1927-02-19 |
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On Ze Boulevard | Gaston Pasqual | 1927-06-25 |
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Tea For Three | Carter Langford | 1927-10-29 |
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The Gay Deceiver | Toto, Antoine di Tillois | 1927-04-04 |
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Monte Carlo | Tony Townsend | 1926-03-01 |
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Time, the Comedian | Larry Brundage | 1925-11-08 |
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1925 Studio Tour | Self | 1925-04-09 |
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His Secretary | David Colman | 1925-12-06 |
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The Tower of Lies | 1925-10-10 | |
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Exchange of Wives | John Rathburn | 1925-10-04 |
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Man and Maid | Sir Nicholas Thormonde | 1925-04-20 |
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A Slave of Fashion | Nicholas Wentworth | 1925-08-23 |
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The Sporting Venus | Prince Carlos | 1925-04-12 |
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Hello, 'Frisco | Lew Cody | 1924-09-28 |
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Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model | Walter Peck | 1924-04-16 |
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The Woman on the Jury | George Montgomery / George Wayne | 1924-04-20 |
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So This Is Marriage? | Daniel Rankin | 1924-11-26 |
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Defying the Law | Pietro Savori | 1924-06-03 |
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The Shooting of Dan McGrew | Dangerous Dan McGrew | 1924-03-31 |
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Three Women | Edmund Lamont | 1924-08-18 |
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Revelation | Count Adrian de Roche | 1924-06-23 |
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Husbands and Lovers | Rex Phillips | 1924-11-02 |
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Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers | Raoul Radon | 1923-03-19 |
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Rupert of Hentzau | Rupert of Hentzau | 1923-07-15 |
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Within the Law | Joe Garson | 1923-04-28 |
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Lawful Larceny | Guy Tarlow | 1923-07-22 |
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Souls for Sale | Owen Scudder | 1923-04-22 |
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Reno | Roy Tappan | 1923-12-09 |
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Secrets of Paris | King Rudolph | 1922-10-01 |
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The Valley of Silent Men | 1922-09-10 | |
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The Sign on the Door | Frank Devereaux | 1921-05-01 |
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Occasionally Yours | Bruce Sands | 1920-09-19 |
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The Butterfly Man | Sedgewick Blynn | 1920-04-18 |
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As the Sun Went Down | Faro Bill | 1919-02-10 |
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Don't Change Your Husband | Schuyler Van Sutphen | 1919-01-26 |
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The Life Line | Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody) | 1919-10-05 |
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Men, Women, and Money | Cleveland Buchanan | 1919-06-15 |
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Our Better Selves | Willard Standish | 1919-07-27 |
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The Broken Butterfly | Darrell Thorne | 1919-11-01 |
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The Demon | Jim Lassells | 1918-07-22 |
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Mickey | Reggie Drake | 1918-08-01 |
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For Husbands Only | Rolin Van D'Arcy | 1918-09-01 |
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The Bride's Awakening | 1918-01-01 | |
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Borrowed Clothes | Stuart Furth | 1918-11-04 |
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Painted Lips | Jim Douglass | 1918-02-04 |
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Playthings | John Hayward | 1918-08-12 |
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Beans | Kirk | 1918-09-16 |
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A Branded Soul | John Rannie | 1917-11-25 |
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A Game of Wits | Larry Caldwell | 1917-11-05 |
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Should a Wife Forgive? | 1915-11-08 |
