![]() ![]() Palter also directed the comedy Nuts for the Los Angeles Stage Company for years before it was adapted for the 1987 film that starred and was produced by Barbra Streisand. His acting résumé also included the 1971 film The Steagle and installments of The Doris Day Show, Columbo, The Brady Bunch, Baretta, The Waltons, Cagney & Lacey and The A-Team. Palter was the third actor in a film about the tragedy to play Isidor, following Roy Gordon in the Jean Negulesco-directed Titanic (1953) and Meier Tzelniker in Roy Ward Baker’s A Night to Remember (1958). (Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate CEO who died last week while piloting the submersible that imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreckage, is a great-great-granddaughter of the Strauses.) He refused to board a lifeboat when the ship was sinking because there were women and children who had yet to get on one, and his wife would not leave without him. Isidor, who co-owned Macy’s with his brother, and Ida were two of the wealthiest passengers to perish on the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. In Titanic (1997), Palter as Isidor and Elsa Raven as his wife, Ida, memorably appear in a montage embracing on a bed in their stateroom as the water rushes in and the ship’s string quartet plays the hymn “Nearer My God to Thee.” He then made his onscreen debut on a 1967 episode of NBC’s Run for Your Life and appeared on It Takes a Thief, The Virginian, Gunsmoke and Mission: Impossible before the decade was done. Palter acted in and directed plays off-Broadway before joining the Millbrook Playhouse in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1960s. In between, he enlisted and served in the U.S. He graduated from Tufts University, then earned his master’s degree from Alfred University and his Ph.D. “As a teacher, he seemed to have truly changed people’s lives,” his daughter said. His thousands of students over the years included Ed Harris, Don Cheadle and Cecily Strong, whom he encouraged to try out for the improv group The Groundlings on the way to her breakout gig on Saturday Night Live. “He had the utmost respect of his students and encouraged all to find truth in their work and lives.” He fostered deep curiosity, care, intellect and humor in every scene, play and class,” CalArts School of Theater Dean Travis Preston said in a statement. “Lew loved the craft of acting and taught his students to do the same. Palter joined CalArts in 1971 and served as an acting teacher and director at the Santa Clarita school until his retirement in 2013, but he also conducted private workshops and taught around the country and around the world, including in Edinburgh and at Carnegie Mellon and UCLA. Plus, he portrayed an LAPD detective on the 1976-77 CBS series Delvecchio, starring Judd Hirsch. Some of the best moments, though, are provided by Hollywood's Jayne Mansfield as the criminal mastermind, demure in black wig and horn-rimmed glasses as she does her 'firm's' books by day, but slinking around in sequins by night with a smile and a song.Eva Maria Daniels, Producer of 'What Maisie Knew' and 'Joe Bell,' Dies at 43 Sky Movies noted, "filled with such familiar leading men of British 'B' features as Peter Reynolds, Edward Judd, Dermot Walsh and Patrick Holt.TV Guide wrote, "most of the actors, with the exception of Quayle, are pretty stiff, and the story is hardly inspired.".At the end of the film, a policeman tells Maxton that the stolen money had been found three years previously. There follows a race against time to save Maxton's son. The gang then kidnap Maxton's son and demand the money as ransom. The gang want the money which he buried but Maxton wants nothing more to do with it or them. Maxton serves his time, returns home to his son. Maxton is shopped and convicted of robbery. Mansfield plays Billy, the ruthless gang leader who persuades Maxton to take part in a big robbery. Mansfield flew back to America on the 16th, after she finished filming. The film was shot in England from 12 October to around December 1959. ![]() ![]() The Challenge, released as It Takes a Thief in the United States, is a 1960 British neo noir crime film directed by John Gilling and starring Jayne Mansfield and Anthony Quayle. ![]()
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