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