Cause of death Heart attack Occupation Actor Role Film actor Resting place St. Peter's Cemetery | Nationality American Name Lew Cody Alma mater McGill University | |
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Full Name Louis Joseph Cote Born February 22, 1884 ( 1884-02-22 ) Waterville, Maine, U.S. Died May 31, 1934, Beverly Hills, California, United States Spouse Mabel Normand (m. 1926–1930), Dorothy Dalton (m. 1913–1914), Dorothy Dalton (m. 1910–1911) Movies Three Girls Lost, Dishonored, Souls for Sale, By Appointment Only, The Common Law Similar People Mabel Normand, Marshall Neilan, Lois Weber, Herbert Brenon, John M Stahl | ||
1920s Hollywood Actor Lew Cody Stock Footage
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 1910's for playing "male vamps" in films such as Don't Change Your Husband.
Contents
- 1920s Hollywood Actor Lew Cody Stock Footage
- Early life and career
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
- References
Early life and career
Cody was born Louis Joseph Cote to Joseph Cote and Elizabeth Cote, nee 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 in Lewiston, Maine in the family plot.
Filmography
Actor
1934
Shoot the Works as
Axel Hanratty
1934
Private Scandal as
Benjamin J. Somers
1933
Sitting Pretty as
Jules Clark
1933
I Love That Man as
Labels Castell
1933
By Appointment Only as
Dr. Michael Travers
1933
Wine, Women and Song as
Morgan Andrews
1932
Under-Cover Man as
Kenneth Mason
1932
The Unwritten Law as
Roger Morgan
1932
Madison Square Garden as
Rourke
1932
The Crusader as
Jimmie Dale
1932
A Parisian Romance as
Baron
1932
70,000 Witnesses as
Slip Buchanan
1932
The Tenderfoot as
Joe Lehman
1932
Beautiful and Dumb (Short)
1932
File 113 as
M. Gaston Le Coq
1931
X Marks the Spot as
George Howard
1931
Sporting Blood as
Tip Scanlon
1931
The Common Law as
Dick Carmedon
1931
A Woman of Experience as
Captain Otto von Lichstein
1931
Sweepstakes as
Wally Weber
1931
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (Short) as
The Villain
1931
Meet the Wife as
Philip Lord
1931
Three Girls Lost as
William (Jack) Marriott
1931
Beyond Victory as
Lew Cavanaugh
1931
Not Exactly Gentlemen as
Ace Beaudry
1931
Dishonored as
Colonel Kovrin
1930
Divorce Among Friends as
Paul Wilcox
1930
What a Widow! as
Victor
1929
A Single Man as
Robin Worthington
1928
Show People as
Lew Cody (uncredited)
1928
The Baby Cyclone as
Joe Meadows
1928
Beau Broadway as
Jim Lambert
1928
Wickedness Preferred as
Anthony Dare
1927
Tea for Three as
Carter Langford
1927
Adam and Evil as
Adam Trevelyan / Allan Trevelyan
1927
On Ze Boulevard as
Gaston Pasqual
1927
The Demi-Bride as
Philippe Levaux
1926
The Gay Deceiver as
Toto / Antoine di Tillois
1926
Monte Carlo as
Tony Townsend
1925
Mrs. Beverly Hills (Short)
1925
His Secretary as
David Colman
1925
Time, the Comedian as
Larry Brundage
1925
The Tower of Lies as
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1925
Exchange of Wives as
John Rathburn
1925
A Slave of Fashion as
Nicholas Wentworth
1925
The Sporting Venus as
Prince Carlos
1925
Man and Maid as
Sir Nicholas Thormonde
1924
So This Is Marriage? as
Daniel Rankin
1924
Husbands and Lovers as
Rex Phillips
1924
Three Women as
Edmund Lamont
1924
Revelation as
Count Adrian de Roche
1924
Defying the Law as
Pietro Savori
1924
The Woman on the Jury as
George Montgomery / George Wayne
1924
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model as
Walter Peck
1924
The Shooting of Dan McGrew as
Dangerous Dan McGrew
1923
Reno as
Roy Tappan
1923
Lawful Larceny as
Guy Tarlow
1923
Rupert of Hentzau as
Rupert of Hentzau
1923
Within the Law as
Joe Garson
1923
Souls for Sale as
Owen Scudder
1923
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers as
Raoul Radon
1922
Dangerous Pastime as
Barry Adams
1922
Secrets of Paris as
King Rudolph
1922
The Valley of Silent Men as
Cpl. James Kent
1921
The Sign on the Door as
Frank Devereaux
1920
Occasionally Yours as
Bruce Sands
1920
The Butterfly Man as
Sedgewick Blynn
1919
The Beloved Cheater as
Bruce Sands
1919
The Broken Butterfly as
Daniel Thorn
1919
Are You Legally Married? as
John Stark
1919
The Life Line as
Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
1919
Our Better Selves as
Willard Standish
1919
Men, Women, and Money as
Cleveland Buchanan
1919
As the Sun Went Down as
Faro Bill (as Lewis J. Cody)
1919
Don't Change Your Husband as
Schuyler Van Sutphen
1918
Borrowed Clothes as
Stuart Furth
1918
Beans as
Kirk
1918
For Husbands Only as
Rolin Van D'Arcy (as Lewis J. Cody)
1918
Mickey as
Reggie Drake (as Lewis J. Cody)
1918
Playthings as
John Hayward
1918
The Demon as
Jim Lassells (as Lewis Cody)
1918
The Bride's Awakening as
Richard Earle
1918
The Treasure of the Sea as
Jim Hardwick
1918
Daddy's Girl as
John Standlaw
1918
Painted Lips as
Jim Douglass
1917
A Branded Soul as
John Rannie (as Lewis J. Cody)
1917
A Game of Wits as
Larry Caldwell
1917
Southern Pride as
Robert Orme
1917
The Bride's Silence as
Paul Wagner (as Lewis J. Cody)
1917
A Noble Fraud (Short)(as Lewis J. Cody)
1916
The Oath of Hate (Short)
1916
The Cycle of Fate as
Sid Aldrich (as Lewis Cody)
1916
The Grinning Skull (Short) as
Donald Harvey
1916
The Crime of Circumstance (Short)
1916
The Buried Treasure of Cobre (Short) as
Professor Peabody (as Louis Cody)
1915
Should a Wife Forgive? as
Alfred Bedford
1915
Comrade John as
Prophet Stein (as Lewis J. Cody)
1915
The Promoter (Short) as
Jim Howard (as Lewis J. Cody)
1915
The Mating as
'Bullet Dick' Ames (as Lewis J. Cody)
1915
His Mother's Portrait (Short) as
Darrell Blackley
1915
The Floating Death (Short) as
Bruce Graham
1915
The Tip-Off (Short) as
Arthur Clarke
1914
Harp of Tara (Short) as
Jim Macy
Writer
1919
The Beloved Cheater (writer)
Producer
1919
The Beloved Cheater (producer)
Self
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (Short) as
Self (uncredited)
1932
Screen Snapshots (Documentary short) as
Self
1930
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 (Short) as
Self
1930
The Voice of Hollywood (Short) as
Self
1930
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5 (Short) as
Self (uncredited)
1927
John Miljan: Vitaphone Trailer Announcement - 'the Jazz Singer' (Documentary short) as
Self
1926
Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 16 (Documentary short) as
Self
1925
Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 2 (Documentary short) as
Self
1925
1925 Studio Tour (Documentary short) as
Self
1925
Screen Snapshots, Series 5, No. 14 (Documentary short) as
Self
1924
Hello, 'Frisco (Short) as
Self - Lew Cody
1923
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 23 (Documentary short) as
Self
Archive Footage
2020
Mickey: The Forgotten Blockbuster (Documentary short)
1965
Hollywood My Home Town (Documentary) as
Self
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy (Documentary) as
Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (uncredited)
1963
Hollywood Without Make-Up (Documentary) as
Self
1942
Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (Short) as
Self
1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (Documentary short) as
Self
1938
Personality Parade (Documentary short) as
Self (uncredited)
1937
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (Documentary short) as
Self
1937
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (Documentary short) as
Self
1935
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 4 (Documentary short) as
Self
1934
Movie Memories #2 (Documentary short) as
Self
References
Lew Cody Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA