Lew Cody
Acting
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.
The Big Parade of Comedy
Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
Shoot the Works
Axel Hanratty
Private Scandal
Benjamin J. Somers
Sitting Pretty
Jules Clark
I Love That Man
Labels Castell
By Appointment Only
Dr. Michael Travers
Wine, Women and Song
Morgan Andrews
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
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File 113
M. Gaston Le Coq
Under-Cover Man
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The Unwritten Law
Roger Morgan
Madison Square Garden
Rourke
The Crusader
Jimmie Dale
A Parisian Romance
Baron
70,000 Witnesses
Slip Buchanan
The Tenderfoot
Joe Lehman
X Marks the Spot
George Howard
Sporting Blood
Tip Scanlon
The Common Law
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Sweepstakes
Wally Weber
A Woman of Experience
Otto von Lichstein
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Three Girls Lost
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Meet the Wife
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Dishonored
Colonel Kovrin
Beyond Victory
Lew Cavanaugh
Three Rogues
Ace Beaudry
Divorce Among Friends
Paul Wilcox
What a Widow!
Victor
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
Self
A Single Man
Robin Worthington
Show People
Lew Cody (uncredited)
The Baby Cyclone
Joe Meadows
Beau Broadway
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Wickedness Preferred
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Tea For Three
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Adam and Evil
On Ze Boulevard
Gaston Pasqual
The Gay Deceiver
Toto, Antoine di Tillois
The Demi-Bride
Philippe Levaux
Monte Carlo
Tony Townsend
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The Tower of Lies
Exchange of Wives
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A Slave of Fashion
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Sir Nicholas Thormonde
The Sporting Venus
Prince Carlos
1925 Studio Tour
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So This Is Marriage?
Daniel Rankin
Husbands and Lovers
Rex Phillips
Hello, 'Frisco
Lew Cody
Three Women
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Revelation
Count Adrian de Roche
Defying the Law
Pietro Savori
The Woman on the Jury
George Montgomery / George Wayne
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Walter Peck
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Dangerous Dan McGrew
Reno
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Lawful Larceny
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Rupert of Hentzau
Rupert of Hentzau
Within the Law
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Souls for Sale
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The Sign on the Door
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The Butterfly Man
Sedgewick Blynn
The Broken Butterfly
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The Life Line
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Don't Change Your Husband
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For Husbands Only
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Playthings
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Mickey
Reggie Drake
The Demon
Jim Lassells
Painted Lips
Jim Douglass
The Bride's Awakening
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John Rannie
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Larry Caldwell
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