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