Name
Lew Cody
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1884-02-22
Deathday
1934-05-31 (50 years old)
Place of Birth
Waterville, Maine, USA
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
6.8
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians....
7.2
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great ...
6.318
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star....
5.385
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's ...
5.4
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes throu...
6.333
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies ther...
6.227
A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for ins...
6.8
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions a...
- 1929 A Single Man as Robin Worthington
- 1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 as Self
- 1923 Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers as Raoul Radon
- 1931 Stout Hearts and Willing Hands as The Villain
- 1927 The Demi-Bride as Philippe Levaux
- 1932 The Unwritten Law as Roger Morgan
- 1918 Mickey as Reggie Drake
- 1931 Dishonored as Colonel Kovrin
- 1933 Wine, Women and Song as Morgan Andrews
- 1919 Our Better Selves as Willard Standish
- 1923 Rupert of Hentzau as Rupert of Hentzau
- 1931 The Common Law as Dick Carmedon
- 1931 X Marks the Spot as George Howard
- 1932 The Tenderfoot as Joe Lehman
- 1933 By Appointment Only as Dr. Michael Travers
- 1933 Sitting Pretty as Jules Clark
- 1923 Within the Law as Joe Garson
- 1931 Sweepstakes as Wally Weber
- 1932 A Parisian Romance as Baron
- 1923 Lawful Larceny as Guy Tarlow
- 1932 The Crusader as Jimmie Dale
- 1931 Sporting Blood as Tip Scanlon
- 1942 Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)
- 1924 Three Women as Edmund Lamont
- 1932 Madison Square Garden as Rourke
- 1931 Three Rogues as Ace Beaudry
- 1924 Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model as Walter Peck
- 1931 A Woman of Experience as Otto von Lichstein
- 1931 Meet the Wife as Philip Lord
- 1923 Souls for Sale as Owen Scudder
- 1923 Reno as Roy Tappan
- 1924 The Shooting of Dan McGrew as Dangerous Dan McGrew
- 1926 Monte Carlo as Tony Townsend
- 1927 The Gay Deceiver as Toto, Antoine di Tillois
- 1932 Under-Cover Man as Kenneth Mason
- 1933 I Love That Man as Labels Castell
- 1925 The Sporting Venus as Prince Carlos
- 1931 Beyond Victory as Lew Cavanaugh
- 1930 Divorce Among Friends as Paul Wilcox
- 1921 The Sign on the Door as Frank Devereaux
- 1928 Show People as Lew Cody (uncredited)
- 1930 What a Widow! as Victor
- 1919 Don't Change Your Husband as Schuyler Van Sutphen
- 1925 A Slave of Fashion as Nicholas Wentworth
- 1924 Hello, 'Frisco as Lew Cody
- 1932 70,000 Witnesses as Slip Buchanan
- 1928 The Baby Cyclone as Joe Meadows
- 1924 Husbands and Lovers as Rex Phillips
- 1918 Beans as Kirk
- 1933 File 113 as M. Gaston Le Coq
- 1918 The Bride's Awakening
- 1925 1925 Studio Tour as Self
- 1918 For Husbands Only as Rolin Van D'Arcy
- 1924 Revelation as Count Adrian de Roche
- 1919 The Life Line as Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
- 1922 The Valley of Silent Men
- 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
- 1918 Borrowed Clothes as Stuart Furth
- 1919 The Broken Butterfly as Darrell Thorne
- 1925 His Secretary as David Colman
- 1927 Adam and Evil
- 1922 Secrets of Paris as King Rudolph
- 1918 Painted Lips as Jim Douglass
- 1934 Shoot the Works as Axel Hanratty
- 1920 The Butterfly Man as Sedgewick Blynn
- 1924 Defying the Law as Pietro Savori
- 1925 Exchange of Wives as John Rathburn
- 1925 Man and Maid as Sir Nicholas Thormonde
- 1927 On Ze Boulevard as Gaston Pasqual
- 1924 So This Is Marriage? as Daniel Rankin
- 1924 The Woman on the Jury as George Montgomery / George Wayne
- 1931 Three Girls Lost as William (Jack) Marriott
- 1930 The Voice of Hollywood No. 5 as Self
- 1917 A Branded Soul as John Rannie
- 1928 Wickedness Preferred as Anthony Dare
- 1918 Playthings as John Hayward
- 1915 Should a Wife Forgive?
- 1920 Occasionally Yours as Bruce Sands
- 1930 Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self
- 1934 Private Scandal as Benjamin J. Somers
- 1919 Men, Women, and Money as Cleveland Buchanan
- 1919 As the Sun Went Down as Faro Bill
- 1927 Tea For Three as Carter Langford
- 1928 Beau Broadway as Jim Lambert
- 1917 A Game of Wits as Larry Caldwell
- 1925 The Tower of Lies
- 1918 The Demon as Jim Lassells
- 1925 Time, the Comedian as Larry Brundage
