AN actor and teacher who starred in James Cameron’s Titanic has died, his heartbroken family confirmed.
Lew Palter died on May 21 of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his daughter Catherine Palter said. He was 94.
Palter is most known for portraying retail tycoon Isidor Strauss, who was one of 1,500 people to tragically die in the Titanic wreck.
He will forever be remembered for a heartwrenching scene where Isidor and his wife Ida held each other in the sinking ship while water crept up around them.
The role in the film was thrust back into the spotlight after it was revealed that he played an ancestor of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush’s wife.
Rush was among five passengers to die in the Titan subversive during a harrowing 13,000-foot descent to see the wreckage of the Titanic.
When Palter wasn’t acting, he was working as a beloved acting professor at director at CalArts.
He joined the school in 1971 and taught thousands of successful students until his retirement in 2013.
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