Lew Cody


Actor

About

Also Known As
Louis Joseph Cote, Lewis J Coty, Lewis J. Cody
Birth Place
Berlin, New Hampshire, USA
Born
February 22, 1884
Died
May 31, 1934

Biography

Lew Cody was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1918, he appeared in "Mickey" alongside Mabel Normand. Cody's career in acting began with his roles in various films like "For Husbands Only" (1918), "Rupert of Hentzau" (1923) and the Boardman Eleanor drama "Souls For Sale" (1923). He also appeared in the Blanche Sweet romance "The Sporting Venus" (1925) and "What a Wid...

Family & Companions

Dorothy Dalton
Wife
Actor. Married and divorced twice.
Mabel Normand
Wife
Actor. Had known one another since childhood; married 1926 until her death in 1930.

Biography

Lew Cody was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1918, he appeared in "Mickey" alongside Mabel Normand. Cody's career in acting began with his roles in various films like "For Husbands Only" (1918), "Rupert of Hentzau" (1923) and the Boardman Eleanor drama "Souls For Sale" (1923). He also appeared in the Blanche Sweet romance "The Sporting Venus" (1925) and "What a Widow!" (1930). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the thirties, appearing in "A Woman of Experience" (1931), the drama "Dishonored" (1931) with Marlene Dietrich and "Not Exactly Gentlemen" (1931). He also appeared in "Sporting Blood" (1931) with Clark Gable and the remake "The Common Law" (1931) with Constance Bennett. In the latter part of his career, he tackled roles in the Loretta Young drama "Three Girls Lost" (1931), "File 113" (1932) and "The Tenderfoot" (1932). He also appeared in "I Love That Man" (1933) and the Jack Oakie musical comedy "Sitting Pretty" (1933). Cody last acted in "Wine, Women, and Song" (1933). Cody was married to Dorothy Dalton. Cody passed away in May 1934 at the age of 50.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Shoot the Works (1934)
Axel Hanratty
Private Scandal (1934)
B. J. Somers
Sitting Pretty (1933)
Jules Clark
Wine, Women and Song (1933)
Morgan Andrews
By Appointment Only (1933)
Dr. [Michael] Travers
I Love That Man (1933)
Labels Castell
Madison Sq. Garden (1932)
Rourke
The Unwritten Law (1932)
Roger Morgan
70,000 Witnesses (1932)
Slip Buchanan
A Parisian Romance (1932)
Baron
File 113 (1932)
Gaston Le Coq, chief of detectives
The Tenderfoot (1932)
Sam Lehman
The Crusader (1932)
Jimmy Dale
Under-Cover Man (1932)
Kenneth Mason
Dishonored (1931)
Colonel Kovrin
Three Girls Lost (1931)
Jack Marriott
Sweepstakes (1931)
Wally Weber
X Marks the Spot (1931)
George Howard
Meet the Wife (1931)
Philip Lord, also known as Philip Bellamy
Beyond Victory (1931)
Lew Cavanaugh
A Woman of Experience (1931)
Captain Otto von Lichstein
The Common Law (1931)
Dick Carmedon [Cardemon]
Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931)
Ace Beaudry
Sporting Blood (1931)
Tip Scanlon
Divorce Among Friends (1930)
Paul Wilcox
What a Widow (1930)
Victor
A Single Man (1929)
Robin Worthington
Wickedness Preferred (1928)
Anthony Dare
The Baby Cyclone (1928)
Joe Meadows
Beau Broadway (1928)
Jim Lambert
Show People (1928)
Himself
Tea for Three (1927)
Carter Langford
The Demi-Bride (1927)
Philippe Levaux
Adam and Evil (1927)
Adam Trevelyan/Allan Trevelyan
On ze Boulevard (1927)
Gaston Pasqual
Monte Carlo (1926)
Tony Townsend
The Gay Deceiver (1926)
Toto/Antoine di Tillois
Exchange of Wives (1925)
John Rathburn
His Secretary (1925)
David Colman
Time, the Comedian (1925)
Larry Brundage
A Slave of Fashion (1925)
Nicholas Wentworth
Man and Maid (1925)
Sir Nicholas Thormonde
The Sporting Venus (1925)
Prince Carlos
Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model (1924)
Walter Peck
The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924)
Dangerous Dan McGrew
Defying the Law (1924)
Pietro Savori
So This Is Marriage (1924)
Daniel Rankin
The Woman on the Jury (1924)
George Montgomery/George Wayne
Three Women (1924)
Edmund Lamont
Revelation (1924)
Count de Roche
Souls for Sale (1923)
Owen Scudder
Within the Law (1923)
Joe Garson
Reno (1923)
Roy Tappan
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers (1923)
Raoul Radon
Rupert of Hentzau (1923)
Rupert of Hentzau
Lawful Larceny (1923)
Guy Tarlow
The Valley of Silent Men (1922)
Cpl. James Kent of the Royal Northwest Mounted
The Secrets of Paris (1922)
King Rudolph
The Sign on the Door (1921)
Frank Devereaux
Occasionally Yours (1920)
Bruce Sands
The Butterfly Man (1920)
Sedgewick Blynn
Wait for Me (1920)
Barry Adams
Are You Legally Married? (1919)
John Stark
The Beloved Cheater (1919)
Bruce Sands
The Broken Butterfly (1919)
Darrell Thorne
Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Schuyler Van Sutphen
Men, Women and Money (1919)
Cleveland Buchanan
As the Sun Went Down (1919)
Faro Bill
Our Better Selves (1919)
Willard Standish
The Life Line (1919)
Phillip Royston
Beans (1918)
Kirk
The Bride's Awakening (1918)
Richard Earle
Borrowed Clothes (1918)
Stuart Furth
Treasure of the Sea (1918)
Jim Hardwick
Daddy's Girl (1918)
John Standlaw
For Husbands Only (1918)
Rolin Van D'Arcy
A Branded Soul (1917)
John Rannie
The Bride's Silence (1917)
Paul Wagner
A Game of Wits (1917)
Larry Caldwell
Southern Pride (1917)
Robert Orme
The Mating (1915)
"Bullet Dick" Ames
Comrade John (1915)
Prophet Stein

Writer (Feature Film)

The Beloved Cheater (1919)
Scen

Cast (Short)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1925 Studio Tour (1925)
Himself

Life Events

1915

Film acting debut in "Comrade John"

1918

Appeared in "Mickey" alongside Mabel Normand

1934

Final feature, "Shoot the Works"

Companions

Dorothy Dalton
Wife
Actor. Married and divorced twice.
Mabel Normand
Wife
Actor. Had known one another since childhood; married 1926 until her death in 1930.

Bibliography