In the scene, which you can see here, the woman, played by Elsa Raven, tells her husband, played by Lew Palter, "Where you go, I go, Isidor." It confirms that the two are based on the real couple ...

Ida and Isidor Straus. Rush is survived by his wife of nearly 37 years, Wendy Rush - who, in what appears to be a tragic bookending of family history, is a descendant of a prominent couple who ...

The proof is in the pudding.” In Titanic, Palter played a fictionalized version of Isidor Straus, a department store magnate who died on the ship in 1912 with his wife, Ida Straus.

Palter, a New York-born actor, had lung cancer and died in his Los Angeles home on May 21. He directed several off-Broadway plays during his career, including “Nuts” for the Los Angeles Stage ...

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, the actor best known to audiences as Macy's co-owner Isidor Straus in the 1997 classic "Titanic," died last month, it was revealed Monday. He was 94.

Lew Palter, who played Isidor Straus in James Cameron’s Titanic and a Supreme Court justice in First Monday in October, has died. He was 94. Palter died of lung cancer May 21 at his Los Angeles ...

Isidor Straus was born in Germany in 1845 and immigrated to the US in 1854. Ida, who was born Rosalie Ida Blun, was also born in Germany, in 1849. She moved to the US with her family, as well. At the ...