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 Dont 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 Codys father owned a drug store In his youth Cody worked at his fathers 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 twentyyear 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 Normands 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 Peters Cemetery Lewiston Maine in the family plot