Lew Cody

Known for ActingBorn 1884-02-22Died 1934-05-31Waterville, Maine, USA

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.Read more

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I Love That Man

Three Rogues

Adam and Evil

On Ze Boulevard

The Tower of Lies

Beyond Victory

A Single Man

Tea For Three

Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

Revelation

The Woman on the Jury

Rupert of Hentzau

Reno

Secrets of Paris

The Sign on the Door

The Butterfly Man

Our Better Selves

Men, Women, and Money

Painted Lips

Sitting Pretty

The Unwritten Law

Three Girls Lost

The Baby Cyclone

The Demi-Bride

Exchange of Wives

Man and Maid

Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

Occasionally Yours

The Tenderfoot

The Big Parade of Comedy

Hello, 'Frisco

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands

What a Widow!

The Crusader

Show People

Private Scandal

Wine, Women and Song

File 113

Meet the Wife

Beau Broadway

The Gay Deceiver

Monte Carlo

His Secretary

Husbands and Lovers

Defying the Law

So This Is Marriage?

Lawful Larceny