Lew Cody
Acting
Born 1884-02-22
Died 1934-05-31
Waterville, Maine, USA
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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.
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Acting
59 credits
Show People
Dishonored
Three Girls Lost
Hello, 'Frisco
The Demon
The Big Parade of Comedy
Souls for Sale
Private Scandal
Sweepstakes
The Sign on the Door
Playthings
So This Is Marriage?
Three Women
Sporting Blood
The Common Law
1925 Studio Tour
Shoot the Works
A Slave of Fashion
70,000 Witnesses
Under-Cover Man
The Demi-Bride
I Love That Man
Within the Law
Time, the Comedian
A Branded Soul
Exchange of Wives
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
A Woman of Experience
The Unwritten Law
The Baby Cyclone
Beyond Victory
The Broken Butterfly
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
The Tenderfoot
Don't Change Your Husband
What a Widow!
Mickey
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
The Gay Deceiver
Three Rogues
A Parisian Romance
Revelation
Divorce Among Friends
Man and Maid
Husbands and Lovers
The Sporting Venus
The Butterfly Man
Rupert of Hentzau
The Woman on the Jury
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
The Crusader
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
File 113
Secrets of Paris
For Husbands Only
By Appointment Only
The Life Line
Lawful Larceny
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