Actor and teacher Lew Palter, who played the ancestor of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush's wife, has died at the age of 94.
Palter rose to prominence in James Cameron's blockbuster film Titanic where he portrayed retail magnate Isidor Straus.
In the 1997 film, he was part of the iconic scene where Isidor and wife Ida held each other on the bed of the sinking ship as water slowly crept up from beneath them. Isidor and Ida Straus were the great-great-grandparents of Stockton Rush's wife, Wendy Rush.
