Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 22, 1884
Died
May 31, 1934
Place of Birth
Waterville, Maine, USA
Credits
88 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Big Parade of Comedy
Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
Shoot the Works
Axel Hanratty
Private Scandal
Benjamin J. Somers
Sitting Pretty
Jules Clark
I Love That Man
Labels Castell
By Appointment Only
Dr. Michael Travers
Wine, Women and Song
Morgan Andrews
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Self
File 113
M. Gaston Le Coq
Under-Cover Man
Kenneth Mason
The Unwritten Law
Roger Morgan
Madison Square Garden
Rourke
The Crusader
Jimmie Dale
A Parisian Romance
Baron
70,000 Witnesses
Slip Buchanan
The Tenderfoot
Joe Lehman
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
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
The Villain
Three Girls Lost
William (Jack) Marriott
Meet the Wife
Philip Lord
Dishonored
Colonel Kovrin
Beyond Victory
Lew Cavanaugh
Three Rogues
Ace Beaudry
Divorce Among Friends
Paul Wilcox
What a Widow!
Victor
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Self
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
Self
A Single Man
Robin Worthington
Show People
Lew Cody (uncredited)
The Baby Cyclone
Joe Meadows
Beau Broadway
Jim Lambert
Wickedness Preferred
Anthony Dare
Tea For Three
Carter Langford
Adam and Evil
On Ze Boulevard
Gaston Pasqual
The Gay Deceiver
Toto, Antoine di Tillois
The Demi-Bride
Philippe Levaux
Monte Carlo
Tony Townsend
His Secretary
David Colman
Time, the Comedian
Larry Brundage
The Tower of Lies
Exchange of Wives
John Rathburn
A Slave of Fashion
Nicholas Wentworth
Man and Maid
Sir Nicholas Thormonde
The Sporting Venus
Prince Carlos