He gained notoriety in the late 1910s for playing "male vamps" in films such as Don't Change Your Husband.

His father was French Canadian, with his ancestral lineage dating back to France and Germany, and his mother was a native of Maine.

[3][4][5][6] After Elizabeth's death, Louis remarried to Marie Lena Rose Toussaint, and they had a daughter named Cecile Côté.

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.

On May 31, 1934, Cody died of a sudden heart attack in his sleep at his home in Beverly Hills, California.