1. Lew Cody gained notoriety in the late 1910s for playing "male vamps" in films such as Don't Change Your Husband.
11 Facts About Lew Cody
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Lew Cody's father was French Canadian, with his ancestral lineage dating back to France and Germany, and his mother was a native of Maine.
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Lew Cody and his younger brothers and sisters were born in Waterville, Maine.
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The family moved to Berlin, New Hampshire, where Lew Cody's father owned a drug store.
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Lew Cody 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.
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Lew Cody made his debut on the stage in New York in Pierre of the Plains.
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Lew Cody moved to Los Angeles and began a minor film career at The Balboa Film Studios with Thomas Ince.
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Lew Cody had at least 99 film credits from 1914 to 1934.
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In what may have been started as a mutual lark, Lew Cody married Mabel Normand in 1926.
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On May 31,1934, Lew Cody died of a sudden heart attack in his sleep at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
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Lew Cody is buried in St Peter's Cemetery, Lewiston, Maine, in the family plot.