Lew Cody
Known For
Acting
Born
1884-02-22 in Waterville, Maine, USA
Died
1934-05-31
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Hello, 'Frisco
as Lew Cody
Playthings
as John Hayward
Dishonored
as Colonel Kovrin
Show People
as Lew Cody (uncredited)
Sweepstakes
as Wally Weber
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Raoul Radon
Man and Maid
as Sir Nicholas Thormonde
Private Scandal
as Benjamin J. Somers
Souls for Sale
as Owen Scudder
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
70,000 Witnesses
as Slip Buchanan
What a Widow!
as Victor
Three Women
as Edmund Lamont
Rupert of Hentzau
as Rupert of Hentzau
The Tower of Lies
Beyond Victory
as Lew Cavanaugh
Under-Cover Man
as Kenneth Mason
The Common Law
as Dick Carmedon
The Tenderfoot
as Joe Lehman
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)