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Actor Lew Palter, who portrayed Isidor Straus—an ancestor of OceanGate's Wendy Rush—in Titanic, died of lung crab astatine the property of 94, his household confirmed.
Eerie Connection Between Titanic Sub & Titanic Disaster Revealed
The Hollywood assemblage has mislaid a beloved star.
Actor Lew Palter—who portrayed businessman and Macy's co-owner Isidor Straus successful James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic—died from lung crab connected May 21, his girl Catherine Palter confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 94.
In summation to his job arsenic an actor, appearing successful TV shows The Flying Nun and L.A. Law implicit the years, Lew was besides a teacher at CalArts School of Theater from 1971 to 2013.
"As a teacher," Catherine told the outlet, "he seemed to person genuinely changed people's lives."
Travis Preston, the dean of the CalArts School of Theater, besides told THR that Lew taught his students to truly emotion the trade of acting.
"He fostered heavy curiosity, care, intellect and wit successful each scene, play and class," Travis shared. "He had the utmost respect of his students and encouraged each to find information successful their enactment and lives."
In caller weeks, the quality Lew portrayed successful Titanic has made headlines over Isidor's transportation to the OceanGate expedition tragedy, which took the lives of passengers Stockton Rush (the CEO of OceanGate), Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood.
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The five-person unit had been en way to presumption the wreckage of the RMS Titanic via a probe submersible erstwhile it went missing connected June 18. Four days later, authorities searching for the vas discovered debris from the sub, with OceanGate concluding that the passengers had "sadly been lost" during their expedition.
And successful an eerie twist, it was revealed that Stockton's woman Wendy Rush is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, 2 of the astir celebrated victims of the 1912 Titanic disaster. According to reports, Ida refused to permission her hubby down and gave up her spot connected a lifeboat to enactment with him after the Titanic deed an iceberg.
The 1997 movie paid tribute to the couple—with Lew portraying Isidor—showing them successful furniture unneurotic arsenic the Titanic began to sink.
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