Actor Lew Palter, who portrayed Isidor Straus—an ancestor of OceanGate's Wendy Rush—in Titanic, died of lung cancer at the age of 94, his family confirmed.
Lew Palter, a Brooklyn-born actor whose dozens of film and TV performances included a role in James Cameron’s “Titanic,” has died following a battle with lung cancer, his family said.
Lew Palter, a Brooklyn-born actor whose dozens of film and TV performances included a role in James Cameron’s “Titanic,” has died following a battle with lung cancer, his family said. His daughter told The Hollywood Reporter that Palter, who was 94, died at his home in Los Angeles on May 21. Born in 1928, Palter broke into the entertainment industry as an Off-Broadway actor and director. He .