Lew Cody
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 22 February 1884 · Waterville, Maine, USA
- Died
- 31 May 1934
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
Acting 88
- 1964The Big Parade of Comedy as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
- 1942Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)
- 1934Shoot the Works as Axel Hanratty
- 1934Private Scandal as Benjamin J. Somers
- 1933Sitting Pretty as Jules Clark
- 1933I Love That Man as Labels Castell
- 1933By Appointment Only as Dr. Michael Travers
- 1933Wine, Women and Song as Morgan Andrews
- 1933Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 as Self
- 1933File 113 as M. Gaston Le Coq
- 1932Under-Cover Man as Kenneth Mason
- 1932The Unwritten Law as Roger Morgan
- 1932Madison Square Garden as Rourke
- 1932The Crusader as Jimmie Dale
- 1932A Parisian Romance as Baron
- 193270,000 Witnesses as Slip Buchanan
- 1932The Tenderfoot as Joe Lehman
- 1931X Marks the Spot as George Howard
- 1931Sporting Blood as Tip Scanlon
- 1931The Common Law as Dick Carmedon
- 1931Sweepstakes as Wally Weber
- 1931A Woman of Experience as Otto von Lichstein
- 1931Stout Hearts and Willing Hands as The Villain
- 1931Three Girls Lost as William (Jack) Marriott
- 1931Meet the Wife as Philip Lord
- 1931Dishonored as Colonel Kovrin
- 1931Beyond Victory as Lew Cavanaugh
- 1931Three Rogues as Ace Beaudry
- 1930Divorce Among Friends as Paul Wilcox
- 1930What a Widow! as Victor
- 1930Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self
- 1930The Voice of Hollywood No. 5 as Self
- 1929A Single Man as Robin Worthington
- 1928Show People as Lew Cody (uncredited)
- 1928The Baby Cyclone as Joe Meadows
- 1928Beau Broadway as Jim Lambert
- 1928Wickedness Preferred as Anthony Dare
- 1927Tea For Three as Carter Langford
- 1927Adam and Evil
- 1927On Ze Boulevard as Gaston Pasqual
- 1927The Gay Deceiver as Toto, Antoine di Tillois
- 1927The Demi-Bride as Philippe Levaux
- 1926Monte Carlo as Tony Townsend
- 1925His Secretary as David Colman
- 1925Time, the Comedian as Larry Brundage
- 1925The Tower of Lies
- 1925Exchange of Wives as John Rathburn
- 1925A Slave of Fashion as Nicholas Wentworth
- 1925Man and Maid as Sir Nicholas Thormonde
- 1925The Sporting Venus as Prince Carlos
- 19251925 Studio Tour as Self
- 1924So This Is Marriage? as Daniel Rankin
- 1924Husbands and Lovers as Rex Phillips
- 1924Hello, 'Frisco as Lew Cody
- 1924Three Women as Edmund Lamont
- 1924Revelation as Count Adrian de Roche
- 1924Defying the Law as Pietro Savori
- 1924The Woman on the Jury as George Montgomery / George Wayne
- 1924Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model as Walter Peck
- 1924The Shooting of Dan McGrew as Dangerous Dan McGrew
- 1923Reno as Roy Tappan
- 1923Lawful Larceny as Guy Tarlow
- 1923Rupert of Hentzau as Rupert of Hentzau
- 1923Within the Law as Joe Garson
- 1923Souls for Sale as Owen Scudder
- 1923Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers as Raoul Radon
- 1922Secrets of Paris as King Rudolph
- 1922The Valley of Silent Men
- 1921The Sign on the Door as Frank Devereaux
- 1920Occasionally Yours as Bruce Sands
- 1920The Butterfly Man as Sedgewick Blynn
- 1919The Broken Butterfly as Darrell Thorne
- 1919The Life Line as Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
- 1919Our Better Selves as Willard Standish
- 1919Men, Women, and Money as Cleveland Buchanan
- 1919As the Sun Went Down as Faro Bill
- 1919Don't Change Your Husband as Schuyler Van Sutphen
- 1918Borrowed Clothes as Stuart Furth
- 1918Beans as Kirk
- 1918For Husbands Only as Rolin Van D'Arcy
- 1918Playthings as John Hayward
- 1918Mickey as Reggie Drake
- 1918The Demon as Jim Lassells
- 1918Painted Lips as Jim Douglass
- 1918The Bride's Awakening
- 1917A Branded Soul as John Rannie
- 1917A Game of Wits as Larry Caldwell
- 1915Should a Wife Forgive?