Lew Cody

Personal Info

Birthday

February 22, 1884

Day of Death

1934-05-31

(50 years old)

Place of Birth

Waterville, Maine, USA

Also Known As

Louis Joseph Côté

Lew Cody

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.

Known For

Exchange of Wives

Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model

Dishonored

Reno

I Love That Man

The Sporting Venus

Three Rogues

The Butterfly Man

Filmography

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