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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.
Birth Name
Louis Joseph Côté
Born
Friday, 22 February 1884
Died
Thursday, 31 May 1934
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
The Big Parade of Comedy | Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' / (archive footage) | 1964 |
Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Himself | 1963 |
Movie Memories #2 | Self | 1934 |
Shoot the Works | Axel Hanratty | 1934 |
Private Scandal | Benjamin J. Somers | 1934 |
Sitting Pretty | Jules Clark | 1933 |
I Love That Man | Labels Castell | 1933 |
By Appointment Only | Dr. Michael Travers | 1933 |
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 | Self | 1933 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
The Big Parade of Comedy | Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' / (archive footage) | 1964 |
Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Himself | 1963 |
Movie Memories #2 | Self | 1934 |
Shoot the Works | Axel Hanratty | 1934 |
Private Scandal | Benjamin J. Somers | 1934 |
Sitting Pretty | Jules Clark | 1933 |
I Love That Man | Labels Castell | 1933 |
By Appointment Only | Dr. Michael Travers | 1933 |
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 | Self | 1933 |
Under-Cover Man | Kenneth Mason | 1932 |
The Unwritten Law | Roger Morgan | 1932 |
Madison Square Garden | Rourke | 1932 |
The Crusader | Jimmie Dale | 1932 |
A Parisian Romance | Baron | 1932 |
70, 000 Witnesses | Slip Buchanan | 1932 |
The Tenderfoot | Joe Lehman | 1932 |
File 113 | M. Gaston Le Coq | 1932 |
X Marks the Spot | George Howard | 1931 |
Sporting Blood | Tip Scanlon | 1931 |
A Woman of Experience | Captain Otto von Lichstein / Otto von Lichstein | 1931 |
The Common Law | Dick Carmedon | 1931 |
Sweepstakes | Wally Weber | 1931 |
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands | The Villain | 1931 |
Three Girls Lost | William (Jack) Marriott | 1931 |
Meet the Wife | Philip Lord | 1931 |
Beyond Victory | Lew Cavanaugh | 1931 |
Dishonored | Colonel Kovrin | 1931 |
Not Exactly Gentlemen | Ace Beaudry | 1931 |
Divorce Among Friends | Paul Wilcox | 1930 |
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5 | Self | 1930 |
Show People | Lew Cody | 1928 |
The Baby Cyclone | Joe Meadows | 1928 |
Beau Broadway | Jim Lambert | 1928 |
Adam and Evil | Adam Trevelyan / Allan Trevelyan | 1927 |
On Ze Boulevard | Gaston Pasqual | 1927 |
The Demi-Bride | Philippe Levaux | 1927 |
The Gay Deceiver | Toto / Antoine di Tillois | 1926 |
Time, the Comedian | Larry Brundage | 1925 |
The Tower of Lies | Undetermined Role | 1925 |
Exchange of Wives | John Rathburn | 1925 |
Man and Maid | Sir Nicholas Thormonde | 1925 |
The Sporting Venus | Prince Carlos | 1925 |
1925 Studio Tour | Self | 1925 |
Three Women | Edmund Lamont | 1924 |
Hello, 'Frisco | Self - Lew Cody / Lew Cody | 1924 |
The Woman on the Jury | George Montgomery / George Wayne | 1924 |
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model | Walter Peck | 1924 |
Rupert of Hentzau | Rupert of Hentzau | 1923 |
Within the Law | Joe Garson | 1923 |
Souls for Sables | Owen Scudder | 1923 |
Souls for Sale | Owen Scudder | 1923 |
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers | Raoul Radon | 1923 |
Secrets of Paris | King Rudolph | 1922 |
The Valley of Silent Men | Cpl. James Kent | 1922 |
Occasionally Yours | Bruce Sands | 1920 |
The Butterfly Man | Sedgewick Blynn | 1920 |
The Beloved Cheater | Bruce Sands | 1919 |
The Broken Butterfly | Daniel Thorn / Darrell Thorne | 1919 |
Are You Legally Married? | John Stark | 1919 |
Our Better Selves | Willard Standish | 1919 |
Men, Women, and Money | Cleveland Buchanan | 1919 |
Don't Change Your Husband | Schuyler Van Sutphen | 1919 |
Borrowed Clothes | Stuart Furth | 1918 |
Beans | Kirk | 1918 |
For Husbands Only | Rolin Van D'Arcy | 1918 |
Playthings | John Hayward | 1918 |
Mickey | Reggie Drake | 1918 |
The Bride's Awakening | Richard Earle | 1918 |
The Treasure of the Sea | Jim Hardwick | 1918 |
Daddy's Girl | John Standlaw | 1918 |
A Branded Soul | John Rannie | 1917 |
A Game of Wits | Larry Caldwell | 1917 |
The Bride's Silence | Paul Wagner | 1917 |
Should a Wife Forgive? | Alfred Bedford | 1915 |
Comrade John | Prophet Stein | 1915 |
The Mating | 'Bullet Dick' Ames | 1915 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Beloved Cheater | 1919 |