The Hollywood neighborhood has misplaced a beloved star.
Actor Lew Palter—who portrayed businessman and Macy’s co-owner Isidor Straus in James Cameron‘s 1997 movie Titanic—died from lung most cancers on Might 21, his daughter Catherine Palter confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 94.
Along with his job as an actor, showing in TV reveals The Flying Nun and L.A. Regulation through the years, Lew was additionally a trainer at CalArts Faculty of Theater from 1971 to 2013.
“As a trainer,” Catherine advised the outlet, “he appeared to have actually modified folks’s lives.”
Travis Preston, the dean of the CalArts Faculty of Theater, additionally advised THR that Lew taught his college students to essentially love the craft of appearing.
“He fostered deep curiosity, care, mind and humor in each scene, play and sophistication,” Travis shared. “He had the utmost respect of his college students and inspired all to search out reality of their work and lives.”
