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.

Filmography

• 1964The Big Parade of Comedy — Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
• 1934Private Scandal — Benjamin J. Somers
• 1934Shoot the Works — Axel Hanratty
• 1933By Appointment Only — Dr. Michael Travers
• 1933File 113 — M. Gaston Le Coq
• 1933I Love That Man — Labels Castell
• 1933Sitting Pretty — Jules Clark
• 1933Wine, Women and Song — Morgan Andrews
• 193270,000 Witnesses — Slip Buchanan
• 1932A Parisian Romance — Baron
• 1932Madison Square Garden — Rourke
• 1932The Crusader — Jimmie Dale
• 1932The Tenderfoot — Joe Lehman
• 1932The Unwritten Law — Roger Morgan
• 1932Under-Cover Man — Kenneth Mason
• 1931A Woman of Experience — Otto von Lichstein
• 1931Beyond Victory — Lew Cavanaugh
• 1931Dishonored — Colonel Kovrin
• 1931Meet the Wife — Philip Lord
• 1931Sporting Blood — Tip Scanlon
• 1931Stout Hearts and Willing Hands — The Villain
• 1931Sweepstakes — Wally Weber
• 1931The Common Law — Dick Carmedon
• 1931Three Girls Lost — William (Jack) Marriott
• 1931Three Rogues — Ace Beaudry
• 1931X Marks the Spot — George Howard
• 1930Divorce Among Friends — Paul Wilcox
• 1930What a Widow! — Victor
• 1929A Single Man — Robin Worthington
• 1928Beau Broadway — Jim Lambert
• 1928Show People — Lew Cody (uncredited)
• 1928The Baby Cyclone — Joe Meadows
• 1928Wickedness Preferred — Anthony Dare
• 1927Adam and Evil
• 1927On Ze Boulevard — Gaston Pasqual
• 1927Tea For Three — Carter Langford
• 1927The Demi-Bride — Philippe Levaux
• 1927The Gay Deceiver — Toto, Antoine di Tillois
• 1926Monte Carlo — Tony Townsend
• 1925A Slave of Fashion — Nicholas Wentworth
• 1925Exchange of Wives — John Rathburn
• 1925His Secretary — David Colman
• 1925Man and Maid — Sir Nicholas Thormonde
• 1925The Sporting Venus — Prince Carlos
• 1925The Tower of Lies
• 1925Time, the Comedian — Larry Brundage
• 1924Defying the Law — Pietro Savori
• 1924Hello, 'Frisco — Lew Cody
• 1924Husbands and Lovers — Rex Phillips
• 1924Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model — Walter Peck
• 1924Revelation — Count Adrian de Roche
• 1924So This Is Marriage? — Daniel Rankin
• 1924The Shooting of Dan McGrew — Dangerous Dan McGrew
• 1924The Woman on the Jury — George Montgomery / George Wayne
• 1924Three Women — Edmund Lamont
• 1923Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers — Raoul Radon
• 1923Lawful Larceny — Guy Tarlow
• 1923Reno — Roy Tappan
• 1923Rupert of Hentzau — Rupert of Hentzau
• 1923Souls for Sale — Owen Scudder
• 1923Within the Law — Joe Garson
• 1922Secrets of Paris — King Rudolph
• 1922The Valley of Silent Men
• 1921The Sign on the Door — Frank Devereaux
• 1920Occasionally Yours — Bruce Sands
• 1920The Butterfly Man — Sedgewick Blynn
• 1919As the Sun Went Down — Faro Bill
• 1919Don't Change Your Husband — Schuyler Van Sutphen
• 1919Men, Women, and Money — Cleveland Buchanan
• 1919Our Better Selves — Willard Standish
• 1919The Broken Butterfly — Darrell Thorne
• 1919The Life Line — Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
• 1918Beans — Kirk
• 1918Borrowed Clothes — Stuart Furth
• 1918For Husbands Only — Rolin Van D'Arcy
• 1918Mickey — Reggie Drake
• 1918Painted Lips — Jim Douglass
• 1918Playthings — John Hayward
• 1918The Bride's Awakening
• 1918The Demon — Jim Lassells
• 1917A Branded Soul — John Rannie
• 1917A Game of Wits — Larry Caldwell
• 1915Should a Wife Forgive?

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 1942Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) — Self (archive footage)
• 1933Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 — Self
• 1930Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 — Self
• 1930The Voice of Hollywood No. 5 — Self
• 19251925 Studio Tour — Self