Lew Cody

Acting · 0.5 popularity

Age

142

Movies

Born: February 22, 1884 – May 31, 1934
From: Waterville, Maine, USA

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.

Works

88 films

Show People

19287.2

Dishonored

19316.9

Hello, 'Frisco

19247.5

Three Girls Lost

19318.0

The Demon

1918

So This Is Marriage?

19247.0

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

Souls for Sale

19236.3

I Love That Man

193310.0

Sweepstakes

19315.7

Playthings

1918

Within the Law

19235.6

Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

19238.0

A Slave of Fashion

19256.0

Private Scandal

19347.0

The Common Law

19315.4

Shoot the Works

19346.7

The Sign on the Door

19219.0

A Branded Soul

1917

The Demi-Bride

19278.0

Time, the Comedian

19253.0

Sporting Blood

19315.4

Beyond Victory

19319.0

1925 Studio Tour

19256.3

Three Women

19244.3

Exchange of Wives

19258.0

The Gay Deceiver

19277.0

70,000 Witnesses

19325.7

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

A Woman of Experience

19316.2

Don't Change Your Husband

19196.8

Sitting Pretty

19338.0

A Parisian Romance

19324.6

What a Widow!

19307.3

The Sporting Venus

19256.7

Three Rogues

193110.0

Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model

19249.0

His Secretary

19257.0

Rupert of Hentzau

19239.0

The Butterfly Man

19209.0

The Tenderfoot

19327.5

The Woman on the Jury

19249.0

The Unwritten Law

19328.0

Husbands and Lovers

19247.0

Painted Lips

19188.5

The Broken Butterfly

19196.2

The Bride's Awakening

1918

Mickey

19186.5

Madison Square Garden

19326.8

For Husbands Only

1918

Borrowed Clothes

1918

The Crusader

19327.3

The Life Line

19197.0

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands

19317.3

A Single Man

19299.0

Wickedness Preferred

19284.5

The Baby Cyclone

19288.0

Wine, Women and Song

19337.0

By Appointment Only

19336.5

File 113

19337.0

A Game of Wits

1917

Hollywood on Parade No. A-6

19334.5

Revelation

19249.0

Under-Cover Man

19326.3

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

19249.0

Divorce Among Friends

19305.0

Meet the Wife

19317.0

Reno

19239.0

The Tower of Lies

192510.0

As the Sun Went Down

1919

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

1930

Secrets of Paris

19229.0

Man and Maid

19258.0

On Ze Boulevard

192710.0

The Valley of Silent Men

19226.3

Beans

1918

Should a Wife Forgive?

1915

Monte Carlo

19267.0

The Voice of Hollywood No. 5

1930

Defying the Law

19247.0

X Marks the Spot

19316.5

Lawful Larceny

19237.0

Occasionally Yours

19208.0

Adam and Evil

192710.0

Beau Broadway

19287.0

Men, Women, and Money

19199.0

Tea For Three

19279.0

Our Better Selves

19199.0