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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Private Scandal | Benjamin J. Somers | 1934-05-11 |
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Shoot the Works | Axel Hanratty | 1934-07-18 |
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By Appointment Only | Dr. Michael Travers | 1933-07-06 |
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File 113 | M. Gaston Le Coq | 1933-01-05 |
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Wine, Women and Song | Morgan Andrews | 1933-03-27 |
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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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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 | Self | 1933-01-12 |
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The Unwritten Law | Roger Morgan | 1932-11-26 |
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The Crusader | Jimmie Dale | 1932-10-04 |
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70,000 Witnesses | Slip Buchanan | 1932-09-09 |
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Madison Square Garden | Rourke | 1932-11-04 |
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Under-Cover Man | Kenneth Mason | 1932-12-02 |
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A Parisian Romance | Baron | 1932-10-01 |
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The Tenderfoot | Joe Lehman | 1932-05-23 |
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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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Beyond Victory | Lew Cavanaugh | 1931-04-03 |
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A Woman of Experience | Otto von Lichstein | 1931-07-08 |
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The Common Law | Dick Carmedon | 1931-07-17 |
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Sporting Blood | Tip Scanlon | 1931-08-08 |
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Sweepstakes | Wally Weber | 1931-07-10 |
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Meet the Wife | Philip Lord | 1931-04-16 |
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Three Girls Lost | William (Jack) Marriott | 1931-04-19 |
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X Marks the Spot | George Howard | 1931-12-13 |
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands | 1931-06-15 | |
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 | Self | 1930-09-01 |
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 5 | Self | 1930-02-01 |
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Divorce Among Friends | Paul Wilcox | 1930-12-13 |
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What a Widow! | Victor | 1930-09-12 |
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Tea For Three | Carter Langford | 1929-02-25 |
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A Single Man | Robin Worthington | 1929-01-12 |
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Wickedness Preferred | Anthony Dare | 1928-01-28 |
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The Baby Cyclone | Joe Meadows | 1928-09-26 |
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Beau Broadway | Jim Lambert | 1928-08-15 |
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Show People | Self (uncredited) | 1928-11-20 |
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The Gay Deceiver | Toto, Antoine di Tillois | 1927-04-04 |
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Adam and Evil | 1927-08-27 | |
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On Ze Boulevard | Gaston Pasqual | 1927-06-25 |
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The Demi-Bride | Philippe Levaux | 1927-02-19 |
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Monte Carlo | Tony Townsend | 1926-03-01 |
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The Sporting Venus | Prince Carlos | 1925-04-12 |
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Exchange of Wives | John Rathburn | 1925-10-04 |
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1925 Studio Tour | Self | 1925-04-09 |
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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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His Secretary | David Colman | 1925-12-06 |
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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 Woman on the Jury | George Montgomery / George Wayne | 1924-04-20 |
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Revelation | Count Adrian de Roche | 1924-06-23 |
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Hello, 'Frisco | Lew Cody | 1924-09-28 |
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Three Women | Edmund Lamont | 1924-08-18 |
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Husbands and Lovers | Rex Phillips | 1924-11-02 |
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The Shooting of Dan McGrew | Dangerous Dan McGrew | 1924-03-31 |
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Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model | Walter Peck | 1924-04-16 |
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Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers | Raoul Radon | 1923-03-19 |
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Reno | Roy Tappan | 1923-12-09 |
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Souls for Sale | Owen Scudder | 1923-04-22 |
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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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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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The Butterfly Man | Sedgewick Blynn | 1920-04-18 |
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Occasionally Yours | Bruce Sands | 1920-09-19 |
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The Life Line | Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody) | 1919-10-05 |
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Our Better Selves | Willard Standish | 1919-07-27 |
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As the Sun Went Down | Faro Bill | 1919-02-10 |
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Men, Women, and Money | Cleveland Buchanan | 1919-06-15 |
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The Broken Butterfly | Darrell Thorne | 1919-11-01 |
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Don't Change Your Husband | Schuyler Van Sutphen | 1919-01-26 |
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Borrowed Clothes | Stuart Furth | 1918-11-04 |
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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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Beans | Kirk | 1918-09-16 |
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Painted Lips | Jim Douglass | 1918-02-04 |
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Mickey | Reggie Drake | 1918-08-01 |
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Playthings | John Hayward | 1918-08-12 |
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A Branded Soul | John Rannie | 1917-11-25 |
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Should a Wife Forgive? | 1915-11-08 |
