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 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.
Dishonored
as Colonel KovrinThe Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
Movie page
Show People
as Self (uncredited)Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great...
Movie page
70,000 Witnesses
as Slip BuchananCollege football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He...
Movie page
The Crusader
as Jimmie DaleGangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his...
Movie page
His Secretary
as David ColmanWhen a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.
Movie page
The Common Law
as Dick CarmedonWhen a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent...
Movie page
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Movie page
Three Women
as Edmund LamontA frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her...
Movie page
The Tenderfoot
as Joe LehmanCalvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth...
Movie page
Mickey
as Reggie DrakeMickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live...
Movie page
Sitting Pretty
as Jules ClarkJack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their...
Movie page
Souls for Sale
as Owen ScudderA young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Movie page
Revelation
as Count Adrian de RochePaul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the...
Movie page
Sporting Blood
as Tip ScanlonA horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through...
Movie page
What a Widow!
as VictorA young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes...
Movie page
Three Rogues
as Ace BeaudryIn 1877, thieves Ace Beaudry, Bronco Dawson and Bull Stanley head West together after having...
Movie page
Beyond Victory
as Lew CavanaughFour battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Movie page
Reno
as Roy TappanAfter obtaining a divorce from his second wife Emily, Roy Tappan marries Dora Carson, who has...
Movie page
So This Is Marriage?
as Daniel RankinThe only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault...
Movie page
Our Better Selves
as Willard StandishThe marriage of a wealthy and frivolous member of French nobility, Loyette Merval, to an...
Movie page
The Woman on the Jury
as George Montgomery / George WayneThe story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but...
Movie page
A Slave of Fashion
as Nicholas WentworthKatherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown...
Movie page
Three Girls Lost
as William (Jack) MarriottArchitect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts...
Movie page
Borrowed Clothes
as Stuart FurthA pretty but poor girl leaves the young boy who loves her for a rich playboy who she believes...
Movie page
Husbands and Lovers
as Rex PhillipsFor Husbands and Lovers, John M Stahl pairs devoted wife Florence Vidor with ungrateful husband...
Movie page
Shoot the Works
as Axel HanrattyThe story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't...
Movie page
A Woman of Experience
as Otto von LichsteinIt is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute,...
Movie page
I Love That Man
as Labels CastellInnocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way...
Movie page
Lawful Larceny
as Guy TarlowDuring his wife's absence, Andrew Dorsey is snared by Vivian Hepburn, owner of a crooked...
Movie page
File 113
as uncreditedA Parisian cop sets out to solve a sudden series of crimes, including robbery and blackmail....
Movie page
X Marks the Spot
as George HowardThe story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to...
Movie page
Madison Square Garden
as RourkeEddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his...
Movie page
Sweepstakes
as Wally WeberA popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Movie page
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of...
Movie page
1925 Studio Tour
as SelfA tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and...
Movie page
For Husbands Only
as Rolin Van D'ArcyA sheltered young woman began a romance with a playboy, under the mistaken assumption that...
Movie page
Within the Law
as Joe GarsonWhen Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to...
Movie page
The Valley of Silent Men
as uncreditedThe hunter becomes the hunted, an officer of the Royal Mounted, fleeing, fighting for his life. ...
Movie page
The Sign on the Door
as Frank DevereauxA 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.
Movie page
The Life Line
as Phillip Royston (as Lewis J. Cody)Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the...
Movie page
Under-Cover Man
as Kenneth MasonWhen his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover...
Movie page
Divorce Among Friends
as Paul WilcoxGeorge Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave...
Movie page
Painted Lips
as Jim DouglassThe daughter of a sea captain, the heroine falls in with a bad crowd and is soon working as a...
Movie page
The Unwritten Law
as Roger MorganA film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose...
Movie page
The Butterfly Man
as Sedgewick BlynnSedgewick Blynn is determined to marry a rich woman. One night he saves a child from a fire....
Movie page
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
as Walter PeckNellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up...
Movie page
By Appointment Only
as Dr. Michael TraversWhen a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty...
Movie page
The Demi-Bride
as Philippe LevauxTrouble begins when Mme. Girard steps out on her husband, Criquette's father, to fool around...
Movie page
Don't Change Your Husband
as Schuyler Van SutphenLeila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and...
Movie page
A Single Man
as Robin WorthingtonRobin Worthington (Lew Cody), a middle-aged man attracted by a young woman, at first avoids her,...
Movie page
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as SelfA promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral...
Movie page
The Gay Deceiver
as Toto, Antoine di TilloisA deceiver leads the fast set in Paris and is involved in love affairs and blackmail. Will he...
Movie page
A Branded Soul
as John RannieConchita Cordova sings in the cathedral choir in her village of San Miguelito near the Rio...
Movie page
Wine, Women and Song
as Morgan AndrewsThe story of aging chorus girl Frankie Arnette, who'll do anything for publicity. Fiercely...
Movie page
The Bride's Awakening
as uncreditedA husband orders his wife to keep their marriage a secret, in order to better continue his...
Movie page
The Baby Cyclone
as Joe MeadowsA woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy.
Movie page
The Broken Butterfly
as Darrell ThorneA woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for...
Movie page
Dreams of Monte Carlo
as Tony TownsendThree girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local...
Movie page
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
as Dangerous Dan McGrewAlthough the dance troupe of which she is leading lady is successful in South America, Lou urges...
Movie page