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