Lew Cody
Known for Acting · 88 credits
- Born
- 1884-02-22
- Died
- 1934-05-31
- Place of birth
- Waterville, Maine, USA
- Also known as
- Louis Joseph Côté
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.
Known For
Show People
1928
as Lew Cody (uncredited)
File 113
1933
as M. Gaston Le Coq
Dishonored
1931
as Colonel Kovrin
Hello, 'Frisco
1924
as Lew Cody
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Revelation
1924
as Count Adrian de Roche
Movies (88)
Show People
1928
as Lew Cody (uncredited)
File 113
1933
as M. Gaston Le Coq
Dishonored
1931
as Colonel Kovrin
Hello, 'Frisco
1924
as Lew Cody
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Revelation
1924
as Count Adrian de Roche
Three Women
1924
as Edmund Lamont
The Common Law
1931
as Dick Carmedon
Monte Carlo
1926
as Tony Townsend
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
Three Girls Lost
1931
as William (Jack) Marriott
The Tenderfoot
1932
as Joe Lehman
Souls for Sale
1923
as Owen Scudder
By Appointment Only
1933
as Dr. Michael Travers
70,000 Witnesses
1932
as Slip Buchanan
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931
as The Villain
The Broken Butterfly
1919
as Darrell Thorne
Exchange of Wives
1925
as John Rathburn
1925 Studio Tour
1925
as Self
Painted Lips
1918
as Jim Douglass
Madison Square Garden
1932
as Rourke
Shoot the Works
1934
as Axel Hanratty
What a Widow!
1930
as Victor
Sporting Blood
1931
as Tip Scanlon
Playthings
1918
as John Hayward
Mickey
1918
as Reggie Drake
Sweepstakes
1931
as Wally Weber
Three Rogues
1931
as Ace Beaudry
Don't Change Your Husband
1919
as Schuyler Van Sutphen
Beans
1918
as Kirk
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
1930
as Self
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
1930
as Self
A Woman of Experience
1931
as Otto von Lichstein
So This Is Marriage?
1924
as Daniel Rankin
Borrowed Clothes
1918
as Stuart Furth
Adam and Evil
1927
I Love That Man
1933
as Labels Castell
X Marks the Spot
1931
as George Howard
The Demon
1918
as Jim Lassells
Beyond Victory
1931
as Lew Cavanaugh
Secrets of Paris
1922
as King Rudolph
Occasionally Yours
1920
as Bruce Sands
A Parisian Romance
1932
as Baron
On Ze Boulevard
1927
as Gaston Pasqual
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
1924
as Walter Peck
Under-Cover Man
1932
as Kenneth Mason
Private Scandal
1934
as Benjamin J. Somers
The Baby Cyclone
1928
as Joe Meadows
Man and Maid
1925
as Sir Nicholas Thormonde
As the Sun Went Down
1919
as Faro Bill
The Valley of Silent Men
1922
Wine, Women and Song
1933
as Morgan Andrews
Reno
1923
as Roy Tappan
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
1924
as Dangerous Dan McGrew
A Slave of Fashion
1925
as Nicholas Wentworth
Rupert of Hentzau
1923
as Rupert of Hentzau
Lawful Larceny
1923
as Guy Tarlow
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
1933
as Self
The Unwritten Law
1932
as Roger Morgan
The Crusader
1932
as Jimmie Dale
His Secretary
1925
as David Colman
The Life Line
1919
as Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)
Defying the Law
1924
as Pietro Savori
The Tower of Lies
1925
Husbands and Lovers
1924
as Rex Phillips
The Demi-Bride
1927
as Philippe Levaux
For Husbands Only
1918
as Rolin Van D'Arcy
Sitting Pretty
1933
as Jules Clark
Meet the Wife
1931
as Philip Lord
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
1923
as Raoul Radon
Men, Women, and Money
1919
as Cleveland Buchanan
The Sporting Venus
1925
as Prince Carlos
Within the Law
1923
as Joe Garson
Should a Wife Forgive?
1915
Divorce Among Friends
1930
as Paul Wilcox
The Butterfly Man
1920
as Sedgewick Blynn
The Bride's Awakening
1918
The Woman on the Jury
1924
as George Montgomery / George Wayne
Wickedness Preferred
1928
as Anthony Dare
Tea For Three
1927
as Carter Langford
Beau Broadway
1928
as Jim Lambert
The Sign on the Door
1921
as Frank Devereaux
Our Better Selves
1919
as Willard Standish
A Single Man
1929
as Robin Worthington
The Gay Deceiver
1927
as Toto, Antoine di Tillois
A Branded Soul
1917
as John Rannie
A Game of Wits
1917
as Larry Caldwell
Time, the Comedian
1925
as Larry Brundage
About Lew Cody
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 late… With 88 credits spanning from 1915 to 1964, Lew Cody has appeared in 88 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Show People (1928) — as Lew Cody (uncredited)
- File 113 (1933) — as M. Gaston Le Coq
- Dishonored (1931) — as Colonel Kovrin
- Hello, 'Frisco (1924) — as Lew Cody
- The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) — as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
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