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.
Acted in 71
1960s
- 1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
1930s
- 1934
Shoot the Works
Axel Hanratty
Private Scandal
Benjamin J. Somers
- 1933
Sitting Pretty
Jules Clark
I Love That Man
Labels Castell
By Appointment Only
Dr. Michael Travers
Wine, Women and Song
Morgan Andrews
File 113
M. Gaston Le Coq
- 1932
Under-Cover Man
Kenneth Mason
The Unwritten Law
Roger Morgan
Madison Square Garden
Rourke
70,000 Witnesses
Slip Buchanan
The Tenderfoot
Joe Lehman
- 1931
X Marks the Spot
George Howard
Sporting Blood
Tip Scanlon
The Common Law
Dick Carmedon
Sweepstakes
Wally Weber
A Woman of Experience
Otto von Lichstein
Three Girls Lost
William (Jack) Marriott
Beyond Victory
Lew Cavanaugh
Three Rogues
Ace Beaudry
- 1930
Divorce Among Friends
Paul Wilcox
What a Widow!
Victor
1920s
- 1929
A Single Man
Robin Worthington
- 1928
The Baby Cyclone
Joe Meadows
Wickedness Preferred
Anthony Dare
- 1927
Tea For Three
Carter Langford
The Gay Deceiver
Toto, Antoine di Tillois
The Demi-Bride
Philippe Levaux
- 1926
Monte Carlo
Tony Townsend
- 1925
His Secretary
David Colman
Time, the Comedian
Larry Brundage
The Tower of Lies
Movie
A Slave of Fashion
Nicholas Wentworth
- 1924
So This Is Marriage?
Daniel Rankin
Husbands and Lovers
Rex Phillips
Three Women
Edmund Lamont
Revelation
Count Adrian de Roche
Defying the Law
Pietro Savori
The Woman on the Jury
George Montgomery / George Wayne
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Walter Peck
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Dangerous Dan McGrew
- 1923
Reno
Roy Tappan
Lawful Larceny
Guy Tarlow
Rupert of Hentzau
Rupert of Hentzau
Within the Law
Joe Garson
Souls for Sale
Owen Scudder
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Raoul Radon
- 1922
Secrets of Paris
King Rudolph
The Valley of Silent Men
Movie
- 1921
The Sign on the Door
Frank Devereaux
- 1920
Occasionally Yours
Bruce Sands
The Butterfly Man
Sedgewick Blynn
1910s
- 1919
The Broken Butterfly
Darrell Thorne
The Life Line
Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
Men, Women, and Money
Cleveland Buchanan
As the Sun Went Down
Faro Bill
Don't Change Your Husband
Schuyler Van Sutphen
- 1918
Borrowed Clothes
Stuart Furth
Beans
Kirk
For Husbands Only
Rolin Van D'Arcy
Playthings
John Hayward
Mickey
Reggie Drake
The Demon
Jim Lassells
Painted Lips
Jim Douglass
The Bride's Awakening
Movie
- 1917
A Branded Soul
John Rannie
- 1915
Should a Wife Forgive?
Movie
Appearances4
1940s
- 1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
1930s
- 1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Self
- 1930
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Self
1920s
- 1925
1925 Studio Tour
Self