Lew Cody

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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.

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1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie Self (archive footage)
1934
Shoot the Works
Movie Axel Hanratty
1934
Private Scandal
Movie Benjamin J. Somers
1933
Sitting Pretty
Movie Jules Clark
1933
I Love That Man
Movie Labels Castell
1933
By Appointment Only
Movie Dr. Michael Travers
1933
Wine, Women and Song
Movie Morgan Andrews
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Movie Self
1933
File 113
Movie M. Gaston Le Coq
1932
Under-Cover Man
Movie Kenneth Mason
1932
The Unwritten Law
Movie Roger Morgan
1932
Madison Square Garden
Movie Rourke
1932
The Crusader
Movie Jimmie Dale
1932
A Parisian Romance
Movie Baron
1932
70,000 Witnesses
Movie Slip Buchanan