# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lew-palter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:45:26.819Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lew-palter"
name: "Lew Palter"
slug: "lew-palter"
description: "Leon Louis Palter was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Isidor Straus in the 1997 film Titanic. He was also a longtime instructor at the CalArts School of Theater."
tagline: "American actor (1928–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Lew-Palter-titanic-resize.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-11-03"
deathDate: "2023-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.6306
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658817/"
    handle:    "nm0658817"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%B9%D8%B1"
    title: "لیو پالٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "لو بالتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%B5%D8%AA%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "لیو پاڵتەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Palter"
    title: "Lew Palter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Palter"
    title: "Lew Palter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Palter"
    title: "Lew Palter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Palter"
    title: "Lew Palter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731560"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8543"
    title: "Lew Palter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump