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.
88 acting credits
Acting · 88
Show People
1928
Dishonored
1931
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Souls for Sale
1923
The Common Law
1931
Exchange of Wives
1925
Three Girls Lost
1931
I Love That Man
1933
Three Women
1924
Three Rogues
1931
The Tenderfoot
1932
File 113
1933
So This Is Marriage?
1924
Madison Square Garden
1932
Revelation
1924
1925 Studio Tour
1925
Sporting Blood
1931
A Woman of Experience
1931
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
The Valley of Silent Men
1922
Mickey
1918
The Unwritten Law
1932
Under-Cover Man
1932
On Ze Boulevard
1927
Monte Carlo
1926
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
1924
Reno
1923
Rupert of Hentzau
1923
Beans
1918
What a Widow!
1930
Playthings
1918
Adam and Evil
1927
Hello, 'Frisco
1924
Shoot the Works
1934
For Husbands Only
1918
Private Scandal
1934
Husbands and Lovers
1924
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
1930
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
1930
Within the Law
1923
The Broken Butterfly
1919
A Slave of Fashion
1925
Meet the Wife
1931
The Woman on the Jury
1924
The Sporting Venus
1925
His Secretary
1925
Don't Change Your Husband
1919
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931
Wine, Women and Song
1933
The Baby Cyclone
1928
Beau Broadway
1928
Divorce Among Friends
1930
Beyond Victory
1931
70,000 Witnesses
1932
Sweepstakes
1931
The Tower of Lies
1925
The Life Line
1919
Should a Wife Forgive?
1915
X Marks the Spot
1931
A Parisian Romance
1932
The Sign on the Door
1921
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
1933
Lawful Larceny
1923
Sitting Pretty
1933
Wickedness Preferred
1928
The Demi-Bride
1927
A Game of Wits
1917
Man and Maid
1925
Borrowed Clothes
1918
By Appointment Only
1933
A Single Man
1929
The Demon
1918
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
1924
The Bride's Awakening
1918
Our Better Selves
1919
Men, Women, and Money
1919
Occasionally Yours
1920
The Crusader
1932
The Gay Deceiver
1927
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
1923
Painted Lips
1918
Secrets of Paris
1922
A Branded Soul
1917
Tea For Three
1927
The Butterfly Man
1920
Defying the Law
1924
As the Sun Went Down
1919
Time, the Comedian
1925