Lew Cody
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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.
Acting
Movie
Dishonored
as Colonel Kovrin
1931
Movie
Show People
as Lew Cody (uncredited)
1928
Movie
Souls for Sale
as Owen Scudder
1923
Movie
Mickey
as Reggie Drake
1918
Movie
Don't Change Your Husband
as Schuyler Van Sutphen
1919
Movie
1925 Studio Tour
as Self
1925
Movie
The Common Law
as Dick Carmedon
1931
Movie
The Broken Butterfly
as Darrell Thorne
1919
Movie
Sporting Blood
as Tip Scanlon
1931
Movie
Within the Law
as Joe Garson
1923
Movie
Divorce Among Friends
as Paul Wilcox
1930
Movie
By Appointment Only
as Dr. Michael Travers
1933
Movie
70,000 Witnesses
as Slip Buchanan
1932
Movie
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
1964
Movie
Sitting Pretty
as Jules Clark
1933
Movie
A Parisian Romance
as Baron
1932
Movie
A Woman of Experience
as Otto von Lichstein
1931
Movie
X Marks the Spot
as George Howard
1931
Movie
The Crusader
as Jimmie Dale
1932
Movie
Three Women
as Edmund Lamont
1924
Movie
The Valley of Silent Men
1922
Movie
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
as The Villain
1931
Movie
Sweepstakes
as Wally Weber
1931
Movie
Madison Square Garden
as Rourke
1932