Lew Cody

Acting

Lew Cody

Born February 22, 1884 · Waterville, Maine, USA

Died May 31, 1934 · aged 50

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 fa…

Known For

Show PeopleShow People · 1928
Show People
7.11928
MovieComedyRomance
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
70,000 Witnesses70,000 Witnesses · 1932
70,000 Witnesses
5.71932
MovieMystery
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
SweepstakesSweepstakes · 1931
Sweepstakes
5.71931
MovieDrama
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
RenoReno · 1923
Reno
9.01923
MovieDrama
After obtaining a divorce from his second wife Emily, Roy Tappan marries Dora Carson, who has just divorced her husband. Left poor with two children, Emily marries Walter Heath, a former suitor, then discovers that she cannot live with her new husband because the divorce is not legal in her home state. Tappan and his new wife soon run out of money, each having thought the other was wealthy. His aunt promises to support him in exchange for his two children. He kidnaps the children and hides them from Emily in his aunt's home. After Emily and Walter find them, they go to Yellowstone Park, where they are considered legally married. Tappan follows and is killed after a fight with Walter when a boiling geyser throws him into the air and throws him onto the rocks below.
PlaythingsPlaythings · 1918
Playthings
1918
MovieDrama
Marjorie North, a department store clerk, falls in love and has an affair with the store owner's son, Gordon Trenwith, but realizes when her baby is born without a name that he meant only to use her as a plaything.
DishonoredDishonored · 1931
Dishonored
6.91931
MovieDramaWar
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
The Common LawThe Common Law · 1931
The Common Law
5.41931
MovieDrama
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
So This Is Marriage?So This Is Marriage? · 1924
So This Is Marriage?
7.01924
MovieDrama
After five years of marriage, Beth and Peter Marsh's life together is a series of rows and reconciliations. Beth is frivolous and extravagant; Peter is domineering and ambitious and has difficulty paying the bills. Daniel Rankin, who lives in the same apartment building, becomes attracted to Beth and arranges with the Marsh chauffeur to have her car break down, allowing him to offer assistance and gracefully introduce himself; Rankin later invites her to a dance. Resenting Rankin's attentions to his wife, Peter forbids her to go. However, Beth accompanies Rankin to spite her husband, and Rankin proposes that she divorce Peter and become his wife. A lost film.

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RenoReno · 1923
Reno
9.01923
MovieDrama
After obtaining a divorce from his second wife Emily, Roy Tappan marries Dora Carson, who has just divorced her husband. Left poor with two children, Emily marries Walter Heath, a former suitor, then discovers that she cannot live with her new husband because the divorce is not legal in her home state. Tappan and his new wife soon run out of money, each having thought the other was wealthy. His aunt promises to support him in exchange for his two children. He kidnaps the children and hides them from Emily in his aunt's home. After Emily and Walter find them, they go to Yellowstone Park, where they are considered legally married. Tappan follows and is killed after a fight with Walter when a boiling geyser throws him into the air and throws him onto the rocks below.

Roy Tappan