Brother of J.W. Cody.
Cody's Native American heritage was challenged in 1996 by a New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) newspaper which reported that he was in fact of Italian ancestry, which he of course denied.
Father of Joseph Cody
He was the man who played the Indian that sheds a single tear for a blighted American environment in "Keep America Beautiful" ads that ran from 1971 into the 1980s.
His daughter died in a childhood hunting accident.
Interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood California next to his wife, who died in 1978.
Was actually of Italian descent.