Bill Cody (actor)
Bill Cody (actually William Joseph Cody, born January 5, 1891 in St. Paul, Minnesota, † January 24, 1948 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American film actor.
Life
Cody joined after his college days at St. John's University in New York City the " Metropolitan Stock Company " to, with whom he made several tours through the States and Kanda. In 1922 he had arrived in Hollywood, where he first found work as a stunt man and bit player. The acquaintance with the independent producer Jesse Goldburg led to better contracts; First he starred in two films under the name Paul Walters, then Goldburg discovered the potential to exploit the equality of the birth name of the actor with the Buffalo Bill and funded a series competently staged, turned in ansehnslicher environment and according to the ordinary books of small B- Westerns " Bill Cody " in the lead role.
Then Cody made two films for the Associated Ehibitors by Pat Powers and a film for Pathe Productions, before he got written by Myron Selznick own series, which was prosuziert until the beginning of the sound era. After three detective films for Universal Pictures Cody left the film business for a year and toured with a Wild West show. In 1931, he was back and played for a use in a supporting role in an eight -part film series in addition to the youthful Andy Shuford for Monogram. After another year with performances in a circus ( the " Bostock Wild Animal Circus" ) he turned three miserable Western for Robert Horner, who suffered under her almost non-existent budget before he - again, according to a circus Intermezzo - for producer Ray Kirkwood in a series of nine films for the Spectrum Productions took over the lead roles; four times this was seen Jr. (1925-1989) at his side, his son Bill Cody.
1939 and 1943 was followed by short phases in which Cody played again in two movies.