Lew Cody

Acting

Born Feb 22, 1884

From Waterville, Maine, USA

Died May 31, 1934

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.

Lew Cody

Known For

Show People

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The Common Law

The Big Parade of Comedy

Three Women

Reno

70,000 Witnesses

Three Rogues

I Love That Man

The Tenderfoot

Filmography — Acting

Show People

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The Common Law

The Big Parade of Comedy

Three Women

Reno

70,000 Witnesses

Three Rogues

I Love That Man

The Tenderfoot

Dishonored

Shoot the Works

Adam and Evil

What a Widow!

Don't Change Your Husband

Sporting Blood

A Slave of Fashion

Beau Broadway

1925 Studio Tour

Souls for Sale

The Valley of Silent Men

Madison Square Garden

Under-Cover Man

The Unwritten Law

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands

Within the Law

Mickey

Revelation

The Baby Cyclone

The Woman on the Jury

The Tower of Lies

Sweepstakes

So This Is Marriage?

A Single Man

The Demi-Bride

A Woman of Experience

Lawful Larceny

The Sporting Venus

Beans

X Marks the Spot

A Parisian Romance

Husbands and Lovers

A Branded Soul

Monte Carlo

Divorce Among Friends

Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model

The Bride's Awakening

Sitting Pretty

The Broken Butterfly

Hello, 'Frisco

Secrets of Paris

The Life Line

Should a Wife Forgive?

Meet the Wife

Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

The Crusader

Playthings

Exchange of Wives

Man and Maid

Rupert of Hentzau

By Appointment Only

On Ze Boulevard

His Secretary

Private Scandal

Three Girls Lost

As the Sun Went Down

Wine, Women and Song