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Lew Cody (born Louis Joseph Côté; 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.[1]

Lew Cody
Cody, c. 1915
Born	Louis Joseph Côté (1884-02-22)February 22, 1884 Waterville, Maine, U.S.
Died	May 31, 1934(1934-05-31) (aged 50) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	St. Peter's Cemetery
Nationality	American
Alma mater	McGill University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1907-1934
Spouse(s)	Dorothy Dalton ​ ​ (m. 1910; div. 1911)​ ​ ​ (m. 1913; div. 1914)​ Mabel Normand ​ ​ (m. 1926; died 1930)​

Early life and career

Cody was born on February 22, 1884 (some sources say 1885)[2] to Louis Joseph Côté and Elizabeth Sarah Côté (née Herbert). His father was French Canadian, with his ancestral lineage dating back to France and Germany, and his mother was a native of Maine. Cody and his younger brothers and sisters were born in Waterville, Maine.[3][4][5][6] After Elizabeth's death, Louis remarried to Marie Lena Rose Toussaint, and they had a daughter named Cecile Côté.

The family 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.[4]

He made his debut on the stage in New York in Pierre of the Plains.[5] Cody moved to Los Angeles and began a minor film career at The Balboa Film Studios with Thomas Ince. [4] Cody had at least 99 film credits from 1914 to 1934.^{[citation needed]}

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.[7] Playing the debonnaire leading man, Cody enjoyed the later single life of "a man's man", which added to his acting persona. In what may have been started as a mutual lark, Cody married Mabel Normand in 1926.[8] Having pre-med schooling, Cody understood that Mabel had acute tuberculosis and they lived separately and attended all he possibly could to Mabel's comfort. They remained married until Normand's death from tuberculosis in February 1930.[8][9]

Death

After Mabel's passing, he successfully transitioned into talking pictures and to even better roles. On May 31, 1934, Cody died of a sudden heart attack in his sleep at his home in Beverly Hills, California.[3] He is buried in St. Peter's Cemetery, Lewiston, Maine, in the family plot.[6][10]

Partial filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1914	Harp of Tara		Short
1915	The Mating	'Bullet Dick' Ames	Credited as Lewis J. Cody
1917	A Branded Soul	John Rannie
1918	Mickey	Reggie Drake	Credited as Lewis Cody; co-starring Mabel Normand
1918	For Husbands Only	Rolin Van D'Arcy
1918	Treasure of the Sea	Jim Hardwick
1919	Don't Change Your Husband	Schuyler Van Sutphen	co-starring Gloria Swanson; directed by Cecil B. DeMille
1919	Are You Legally Married?	John Stark
1919	Our Better Selves	Willard Standish
1919	The Life Line	Philip Royston	co-starring Wallace Beery
1919	The Beloved Cheater	Bruce Sands
1919	As the Sun Went Down	Faro Bill
1920	The Butterfly Man	Sedgewick Blynn
1922	The Secrets of Paris	King Rudolph
1922	Dangerous Pastime	Barry Adams
1923	Rupert of Hentzau	Rupert of Hentzau	Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda
1923	Jacqueline	Raoul Radon
1923	Souls for Sale	Owen Scudder
1924	Defying the Law	Pietro Savori
1924	Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model	Walter Peck
1924	Three Women	Edmund Lamont
1925	Man and Maid	Sir Nicholas Thormonde
1925	The Sporting Venus	Prince Carlos	starring Blanche Sweet and Ronald Colman
1925	A Slave of Fashion	Nicholas Wentworth	co-starring Norma Shearer
1925	The Tower of Lies	Victor Seastrom	co-starring Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer[11]
1925	Exchange of Wives	John Rathburn
1925	His Secretary	David Colman	co-starring Norma Shearer
1926	Monte Carlo	Tony Townsend
1926	The Gay Deceiver	Toto/Antoine di Tillois	Lost film
1927	The Demi-Bride	Philippe Levaux	Lost film
1929	A Single Man	Robin Worthington
1930	What a Widow!	Victor	co-starring Gloria Swanson
1931	Three Girls Lost	William (Jack) Marriott	starring John Wayne and Loretta Young
1931	Beyond Victory	Lew Cavanaugh	co-starring ZaSu Pitts
1931	Stout Hearts and Willing Hands	The Villain	Short
1931	A Woman of Experience	Captain Otto von Lichstein
1931	The Common Law	Dick Carmedon	co-starring Constance Bennett and Hedda Hopper
1931	Meet the Wife	Philip Lord	co-starring Laura La Plante
1931	Sporting Blood	Tip Scanlon	co-starring Clark Gable
1931	X Marks the Spot	George Howe
1932	The Crusader	Jimmie Dale
1932	The Unwritten Law	Roger Morgan
1932	A Parisian Romance	Baron	co-starring Gilbert Roland
1933	By Appointment Only	Dr. Michael Travers
1933	File 113	Gaston Le Coq
1933	Sitting Pretty	Jules Clark	co-starring Ginger Rogers and Thelma Todd
1934	Private Scandal	Benjamin J. Somers	co-starring ZaSu Pitts
1934	Thank Your Stars	Axel Hanratty

References

External links

• Lew Cody at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lew Cody at IMDb
• Lew Cody at Find a Grave
• Photographs and literature on Lew Cody

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Lew Cody (22 de febrero de 1884 - 21 de mayo de 1934) fue un actor estadounidense cuya carrera abarcó desde el cine mudo hasta los primeros años del sonoro.

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