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Aliases: Louis Joseph Côté

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Waterville, Maine, USA

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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
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7

Dishonored

(1931) Colonel Kovrin
1925 Studio Tour
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6

1925 Studio Tour

(1925) Self
Hollywood My Home Town
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5

Hollywood My Home Town

(1965) Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Without Make-Up
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6

Hollywood Without Make-Up

(1963) Self (archive footage)
Three Women
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4

Three Women

(1924) Edmund Lamont
By Appointment Only
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6

By Appointment Only

(1933) Dr. Michael Travers
The Common Law
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6

The Common Law

(1931) Dick Carmedon
The Life Line
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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

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