Lew Cody

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 in Waterville, Maine.[3][4][5][6] After Elizabeth's death, Louis remarried to Marie Lena Rose Toussaint, who he had a daughter with, Cecile Côté.

The family later 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 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.[4]

He made his debut on the stage in New York in Pierre of the Plains.[5] Cody later moved to Los Angeles and began a film career with Thomas Ince.[4] Cody had at least 99 film credits during a twenty-year period between 1914 and 1934.

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.[7] Cody married Mabel Normand in 1926.[8] They remained married until Normand's death from tuberculosis in February 1930.[8][9]

On May 31, 1934, Cody died of heart attack in his sleep at his home in Beverly Hills, California.[3] He is buried in St. Peter's Cemetery, Lewiston, Maine in the family plot.[6]

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