Lew Cody
Age: 50 | From: Waterville, Maine, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1884-02-22 22:15:57
Death: 1934-05-31 22:15:57
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Waterville, Maine, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 47
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Dishonored
(1931) Colonel Kovrin
1925 Studio Tour
(1925) Self
Hollywood My Home Town
(1965) Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Without Make-Up
(1963) Self (archive footage)
Three Women
(1924) Edmund Lamont
The Common Law
(1931) Dick Carmedon
By Appointment Only
(1933) Dr. Michael Travers
The Life Line
(1919) Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1964 | (archive footage) | |
| 1963 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1942 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1934 | Axel Hanratty | |
| 1933 | Jules Clark | |
| Labels Castell | ||
| Dr. Michael Travers | ||
| Morgan Andrews | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1932 | Kenneth Mason | |
| Roger Morgan | ||
| Rourke | ||
| Jimmie Dale | ||
| Baron | ||
| Slip Buchanan | ||
| Joe Lehman | ||
| 1931 | George Howard | |
| Tip Scanlon | ||
| Dick Carmedon | ||
| Wally Weber | ||
| Otto von Lichstein | ||
| N/A | ||
| William (Jack) Marriott | ||
| Philip Lord | ||
| Colonel Kovrin | ||
| Lew Cavanaugh | ||
| Ace Beaudry | ||
| 1930 | Paul Wilcox | |
| Victor | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1929 | Robin Worthington | |
| 1928 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Joe Meadows | ||
| 1927 | N/A | |
| Gaston Pasqual | ||
| Toto, Antoine di Tillois | ||
| Philippe Levaux | ||
| 1926 | Tony Townsend | |
| 1925 | David Colman | |
| John Rathburn | ||
| Nicholas Wentworth | ||
| Sir Nicholas Thormonde | ||
| Prince Carlos | ||
| Self | ||
| 1924 | Daniel Rankin | |
| Rex Phillips | ||
| Edmund Lamont | ||
| Lew Cody | ||
| Count Adrian de Roche | ||
| Pietro Savori | ||
| George Montgomery / George Wayne | ||
| Walter Peck | ||
| 1923 | Roy Tappan | |
| Guy Tarlow | ||
| Rupert of Hentzau | ||
| Joe Garson | ||
| Owen Scudder | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1922 | King Rudolph | |
| N/A | ||
| 1921 | Frank Devereaux | |
| 1920 | Sedgewick Blynn | |
| 1919 | Darrell Thorne | |
| Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody) | ||
| Willard Standish | ||
| Schuyler Van Sutphen | ||
| 1918 | Stuart Furth | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Reggie Drake | ||
| Jim Douglass | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1917 | John Rannie | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
