Lew Palter

Lew Palter is an American film, stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Isidor Straus in the 1997 film Titanic and Justice Benjamin Halperin in the 1981 film First Monday in October. Palter was born in New York. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theater at Northwestern University. He appeared in New York productions such as The Madwoman of Chaillot and An Enemy of the People.