Titanic Actor Lew Palter Dead at 94,American media pundits report that the actor succumbed to lung cancer.
Palter acted as Isidor Strauss in the Oscar- award-winning classic. Straus was a Bavarian-born American businessman and politician. He died with his wife, Ida, in the sinking of the Titanic.
American actor Lew Palter is dead. He starred in the award winning 1997 blockbuster ‘Titanic.’
American media pundits report that the actor succumbed to lung cancer.
Palter acted as Isidor Strauss in the Oscar- award-winning classic. Straus was a Bavarian-born American businessman and politician. He died with his wife, Ida, in the sinking of the Titanic.
The actor’s death comes just days after the death of five passengers aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible who had gone to see the Titanic wreck.
Sub debris was found on the north Atlantic seabed near the wreck of the Titanic.
Since then, claims have been made that safety warnings were ignored by the CEO of the company, Stockton Rush.
The Titan was first reported missing on Sunday, when it lost contact about one hour and 45 minutes into its dive, some 300 miles of the coast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland.
The following days saw a mass search operation with rescue teams from across the world looking for the submersible. It was found on the ocean floor on Thursday, approximately 1,600ft (487m) from the bow of the Titanic wreck.