Lew Cody
Cody, c. 1915
Born	Louis Joseph Côté (1884-02-22)February 22, 1884 Waterville, Maine, U.S.
Died	May 31, 1934(1934-05-31) (aged 50) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	St. Peter's Cemetery
Nationality	American
Alma mater	McGill University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1907–1934
Spouses	Dorothy Dalton ​ ​ (m. 1910; div. 1911)​ ​ ​ (m. 1913; div. 1914)​ Mabel Normand ​ ​ (m. 1926; died 1930)​

Lew Cody (bornLouis Joseph Côté; February 22, 1884 – May 31, 1934) was an American stage and film actor whose career spanned thesilent film and early sound film age. He gained notoriety in the late 1910s for playing "malevamps" in films such asDon't Change Your Husband.^[1]

Cody was born on February 22, 1884 (some sources say 1885)^[2] to Louis Joseph Côté and Elizabeth Sarah Côté (née Herbert). His father was French Canadian, with his ancestral lineage dating back to France and Germany, and his mother was a native of Maine. Cody and his younger brothers and sisters were born inWaterville, Maine.^[3][4][5][6] After Elizabeth's death, Louis remarried to Marie Lena Rose Toussaint, and they had a daughter named Cecile Côté.

The family 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 asoda 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.^[4]

He made his debut on the stage in New York inPierre of the Plains.^[5] Cody moved to Los Angeles and began a minor film career at The Balboa Film Studios withThomas Ince.^[4] Cody had at least 99 film credits from 1914 to 1934.^{[citation needed]}

Cody was married three times. His first two marriages were to actressDorothy Dalton. They first married in 1910 and divorced in 1911. They remarried in 1913 and were divorced a second time in 1914.^[7]Playing the debonair leading man, Cody enjoyed the later single life of "a man's man", which added to his acting persona. In what may have been started as a mutual lark, Cody marriedMabel Normand in 1926.^[8] Having pre-med schooling, Cody understood that Mabel had acutetuberculosis, so they lived separately and he attended all he possibly could to Mabel's comfort. They remained married until Normand's death from tuberculosis in February 1930.^[8][9]

After Mabel's passing, he successfully transitioned into talking pictures and to even better roles.On May 31, 1934, Cody died of a sudden heart attack in his sleep at his home in Beverly Hills, California.^[3] He is buried inSt. Peter's Cemetery, Lewiston, Maine, in the family plot.^[6][10]

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