Lew Cody
Lew Cody is known for Dishonored (1931), Show People (1928), Souls for Sale (1923).
Biography
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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.
Questions about Lew Cody
How many Lew Cody films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 33 films with Lew Cody, from 1918 to 1964.
What was the first Lew Cody film?
The first Lew Cody film in the catalogue is Show People, from 1928.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
Trivia
- Also works as
- screenwriter · film producer · film screenwriter
- Studied at
- McGill University
- Spouse
- Dorothy Dalton · Mabel Normand
Trivia from Wikidata, licensed CC0.
Full filmography
88 films — 33 in the catalogue
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7.2 The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Self (archive footage)
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6.7 Shoot the Works
1934 · Axel Hanratty
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7.0 Private Scandal
1934 · Benjamin J. Somers
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8.0 Sonhos de Glória
1933 · Jules Clark
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10.0 I Love That Man
1933 · Labels Castell
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6.5 By Appointment Only
1933 · Dr. Michael Travers
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7.0 Wine, Women and Song
1933 · Morgan Andrews
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4.5 Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
1933 · Self
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7.0 File 113
1933 · M. Gaston Le Coq
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6.2 Under-Cover Man
1932 · Kenneth Mason
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8.0 The Unwritten Law
1932 · Roger Morgan
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6.8 Madison Square Garden
1932 · Rourke
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7.3
The Crusader
1932 · Jimmie Dale
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4.6
A Parisian Romance
1932 · Baron
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5.7 70,000 Witnesses
1932 · Slip Buchanan
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7.5 The Tenderfoot
1932 · Joe Lehman
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6.5 X Marks the Spot
1931 · George Howard
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5.4 Sporting Blood
1931 · Tip Scanlon
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5.4 The Common Law
1931 · Dick Carmedon
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5.7 Sweepstakes
1931 · Wally Weber
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6.2 A Woman of Experience
1931 · Otto von Lichstein
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7.3 Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931 · The Villain
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8.0 Three Girls Lost
1931 · William (Jack) Marriott
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7.0
Meet the Wife
1931 · Philip Lord
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6.9 Dishonored
1931 · Colonel Kovrin
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9.0 Beyond Victory
1931 · Lew Cavanaugh
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10.0 Three Rogues
1931 · Ace Beaudry
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5.0 Divorce Among Friends
1930 · Paul Wilcox
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7.3 What a Widow!
1930 · Victor
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
1930 · Self
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
1930 · Self
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9.0 A Single Man
1929 · Robin Worthington
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7.1 Show People
1928 · Lew Cody (uncredited)
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8.0 The Baby Cyclone
1928 · Joe Meadows
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7.0
Beau Broadway
1928 · Jim Lambert
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4.5 Wickedness Preferred
1928 · Anthony Dare
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9.0 Tea For Three
1927 · Carter Langford
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10.0
Adam and Evil
1927
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10.0
On Ze Boulevard
1927 · Gaston Pasqual
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7.0 The Gay Deceiver
1927 · Toto, Antoine di Tillois
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8.0 The Demi-Bride
1927 · Philippe Levaux
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7.0 Monte Carlo
1926 · Tony Townsend
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7.0 His Secretary
1925 · David Colman
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3.0 Time, the Comedian
1925 · Larry Brundage
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10.0 The Tower of Lies
1925
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8.0
Exchange of Wives
1925 · John Rathburn
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6.0 A Slave of Fashion
1925 · Nicholas Wentworth
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8.0
Man and Maid
1925 · Sir Nicholas Thormonde
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6.7
The Sporting Venus
1925 · Prince Carlos
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6.3 1925 Studio Tour
1925 · Self
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7.0 So This Is Marriage?
1924 · Daniel Rankin
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7.0 Husbands and Lovers
1924 · Rex Phillips
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7.5
Hello, 'Frisco
1924 · Lew Cody
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4.2 Three Women
1924 · Edmund Lamont
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9.0 Revelation
1924 · Count Adrian de Roche
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7.0 Defying the Law
1924 · Pietro Savori
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9.0 The Woman on the Jury
1924 · George Montgomery / George Wayne
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9.0 Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
1924 · Walter Peck
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9.0 The Shooting of Dan McGrew
1924 · Dangerous Dan McGrew
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9.0 Reno
1923 · Roy Tappan
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7.0 Lawful Larceny
1923 · Guy Tarlow
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9.0 Rupert of Hentzau
1923 · Rupert of Hentzau
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5.6 Within the Law
1923 · Joe Garson
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6.3 Souls for Sale
1923 · Owen Scudder
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8.0 Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
1923 · Raoul Radon
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9.0 Secrets of Paris
1922 · King Rudolph
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6.3 The Valley of Silent Men
1922
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9.0 The Sign on the Door
1921 · Frank Devereaux
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8.0 Occasionally Yours
1920 · Bruce Sands
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9.0 The Butterfly Man
1920 · Sedgewick Blynn
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6.1 The Broken Butterfly
1919 · Darrell Thorne
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7.0 The Life Line
1919 · Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
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9.0 Our Better Selves
1919 · Willard Standish
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9.0 Men, Women, and Money
1919 · Cleveland Buchanan
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As the Sun Went Down
1919 · Faro Bill
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6.8 Don't Change Your Husband
1919 · Schuyler Van Sutphen
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Borrowed Clothes
1918 · Stuart Furth
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Beans
1918 · Kirk
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For Husbands Only
1918 · Rolin Van D'Arcy
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Playthings
1918 · John Hayward
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6.5 Mickey
1918 · Reggie Drake
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The Demon
1918 · Jim Lassells
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8.5 Painted Lips
1918 · Jim Douglass
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The Bride's Awakening
1918
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A Branded Soul
1917 · John Rannie
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A Game of Wits
1917 · Larry Caldwell
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Should a Wife Forgive?
1915
People data: TMDb.
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