Editing Titanic (1997 film) (section)

===Historical characters===
Although not intended to be an entirely accurate depiction of events,<ref name=five/> the film includes portrayals of various historical figures:
[[File:Molly brown rescue award titanic.jpg|thumb|The real Margaret Brown (right) providing Captain [[Arthur Rostron|Arthur Henry Rostron]] with an award for his service in the rescue of ''Titanic''{{'}}s surviving passengers]]
* [[Kathy Bates]] as [[Margaret Brown|Margaret "Molly" Brown]]. Brown is looked down upon by other first-class women, including Ruth, as "vulgar" and "[[new money]]". She is friendly to Jack and lends him a suit of evening clothes (bought for her son) when he is invited to dinner in the first-class dining saloon. She was dubbed the Unsinkable Molly Brown by historians because, with the support of other women, she commandeered [[Titanic Lifeboat No. 6|Lifeboat 6]] from Quartermaster [[Robert Hichens (RMS Titanic)|Robert Hichens]].<ref name="SLB">{{cite book|first=Stephanie L.|last=Barczewski|title=Titanic: A Night Remembered|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|year=2004|access-date=March 31, 2009|page=30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYX4s1_6IlEC&pg=PA30|isbn=978-1-85285-434-8|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126014112/https://books.google.com/books?id=yYX4s1_6IlEC&pg=PA30|url-status=live}}</ref> Some aspects of this altercation are portrayed in Cameron's film. [[Reba McEntire]] was offered the role but had to turn it down because it conflicted with her touring schedule.<ref>{{cite news | title=Reba McEntire Reveals She Turned Down a Role in 'Titanic' | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/reba-mcentire-turned-down-a-role-titanic-1188978/ | location=Los Angeles | work=The Hollywood Reporter | first=Katherine | last=Schaffstall | date=February 22, 2019 | access-date=February 26, 2023 | archive-date=February 27, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227061650/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/reba-mcentire-turned-down-a-role-titanic-1188978/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Victor Garber]] as [[Thomas Andrews]], the ship's builder. Andrews is portrayed as a kind, decent man who is modest about his grand achievement. After the collision, he tries to convince the others, particularly Ismay, that it is a "mathematical certainty" that the ship will sink. He is depicted during the [[Sinking of the Titanic|sinking of the ship]] as standing next to the clock in the first-class smoking room, lamenting his failure to build a strong and safe ship. Although this has become one of the most famous legends of the sinking of the ''Titanic'', this story, which was published in a 1912 book (''Thomas Andrews: Shipbuilder'') and therefore perpetuated, came from John Stewart, a steward on the ship who in fact left the ship in boat no.15 at approximately 1:40&nbsp;a.m.<ref name="seaofglass">ON A SEA OF GLASS: THE LIFE & LOSS OF THE RMS TITANIC" by Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton & Bill Wormstedt. Amberley Books, March 2012. pp 321–323</ref> There were testimonies of sightings of Andrews after that moment.<ref name="seaofglass" /> It appears that Andrews stayed in the smoking room for some time to gather his thoughts; then he continued assisting with the evacuation.<ref name="seaofglass" /> 
[[File:Olympic_Crew_1911.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Crew of the ''Olympic'', 1911. Left: [[William McMaster Murdoch|First Officer William M. Murdoch]]. Right: [[Edward Smith (sea captain)|Captain Edward J. Smith]].]]
* [[Bernard Hill]] as [[Edward Smith (sea captain)|Captain Edward John Smith]].<ref name="Marsh&Kirland1998p66">{{Harvp|Marsh|Kirkland|1998|p=66}}.</ref> Smith planned to make the ''Titanic'' his final voyage before retiring. He retreats into the [[Bridge (nautical)|wheelhouse]] on the [[bridge (nautical)|bridge]] as the ship sinks, dying when the windows burst from the water pressure whilst he clings to the ship's wheel. There are conflicting accounts as to whether he died in this manner or later froze to death in the water near the capsized collapsible lifeboat B.<ref>Ballard, pp. 40–41</ref>
* [[Jonathan Hyde]] as [[J. Bruce Ismay]], White Star Line's ignorant, boorish managing director. With the prospect of an earlier arrival in New York and favorable press attention, Ismay influences Captain Smith to go faster; although this situation appears in popular portrayals of the disaster, it is unsupported by evidence.<ref>{{cite book |last=Beesley |first=Lawrence |title=The Loss of the S.S. Titanic |publisher=Heinemann |location=London, England |year=1912 |page=56}}</ref><ref>Howells (1999: 31).</ref> After the collision, he struggles to comprehend that his "unsinkable" ship is doomed. Ismay later boards Collapsible C (one of the last lifeboats to leave the ship) just before it is lowered. He was branded a coward by the press and public for surviving the disaster while many women and children drowned.
* [[Eric Braeden]] as [[John Jacob Astor IV]], a first-class passenger and the richest man on the ship. In the film, Rose introduces Jack to Astor and his 18-year-old wife, [[Madeleine Astor|Madeleine]] ([[Charlotte Chatton]]), in the first-class dining saloon. During the introduction, Astor asks whether Jack is connected to the "Boston Dawsons", a question Jack deflects by saying that he is instead affiliated with the [[Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin|Chippewa Falls]] Dawsons. Astor is last seen as the glass dome over the Grand Staircase implodes and water surges in.
* [[Bernard Fox (actor)|Bernard Fox]] as [[Archibald Gracie IV|Colonel Archibald Gracie IV]]. The film depicts Gracie making a comment to Cal that "women and machinery don't mix" and congratulating Jack for saving Rose from falling off the ship, unaware that Jack saved Rose from a [[suicide attempt]]. He is later seen offering to lead Jack and Rose to the remaining lifeboats during the sinking. Fox portrayed [[Frederick Fleet]] in the 1958 film ''[[A Night to Remember (1958 film)|A Night to Remember]]''.
* [[Michael Ensign]] as [[Benjamin Guggenheim]], a mining magnate traveling in first class. He shows off his French mistress, Madame Aubert (Fannie Brett), to his fellow passengers while his wife and three daughters wait for him at home. When Jack joins the first-class passengers for dinner after rescuing Rose, Guggenheim refers to him as a "[[Bohemianism|bohemian]]". Guggenheim is seen in the flooding Grand Staircase during the sinking, saying he is prepared to go down as a gentleman.
[[File:Wallace Henry Harvey.jpg|148px|thumb|Wallace Hartley, ''Titanic''{{'}}s bandmaster and violinist]]
* Jonathan Evans-Jones as [[Wallace Hartley]], the ship's bandmaster and violinist, who plays uplifting music with his colleagues on the boat deck as the ship sinks. As the final plunge begins, he leads the band in a final performance of "[[Nearer, My God, to Thee]]", to the tune of Bethany,<ref>{{cite news | title=Further, my god, from thee | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/further-my-god-from-thee-1122417.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Ian | last=Jack | date=September 26, 1999 | access-date=April 16, 2012 | archive-date=December 26, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226182331/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/further-my-god-from-thee-1122417.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Bevil">{{cite news | first=Bevil, J | last=Marshall | title=And the Band Played On | url=http://home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/tnc02.html.htm | work=Southwest Regional Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Rice University | location=Houston | date=October 1999 | access-date=February 23, 2012 | archive-date=August 9, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809161210/http://home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/tnc02.html.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> and dies in the sinking.
* [[Mark Lindsay Chapman]] as [[Henry Tingle Wilde|Chief Officer Henry Wilde]],<ref name="Marsh&Kirland1998p66"/> the ship's chief officer, who lets Cal board a lifeboat because he has a child in his arms. Before he dies, he tries to get boats to return to the sinking site to rescue passengers by blowing his whistle. After he freezes to death, Rose uses his whistle to attract the attention of Fifth Officer Lowe, leading to her rescue.
* [[Ewan Stewart]] as [[William McMaster Murdoch|First Officer William Murdoch]],<ref name="Marsh&Kirland1998p66"/> the officer in charge of the bridge when the ''Titanic'' struck an iceberg. During a rush for the lifeboats, Murdoch shoots Tommy Ryan, as well as another passenger, in a momentary panic and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. When Murdoch's nephew Scott saw the film, he objected to his uncle's portrayal, seeing it as damaging to Murdoch's heroic reputation.<ref>{{cite news | title = Nephew angered by tarnishing of Titanic hero | work = BBC News | date = January 24, 1998 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/50203.stm | access-date = February 19, 2007 | archive-date = October 4, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171004222811/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/50203.stm | url-status = live }}</ref> A few months later, Fox vice president Scott Neeson went to [[Dalbeattie]], Scotland, where Murdoch lived, to deliver a personal apology and also presented a £5000 donation to [[Dalbeattie High School]] to boost the school's William Murdoch Memorial Prize.<ref>{{cite news | title = Titanic makers say sorry | work = BBC News | date = April 15, 1998 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/78839.stm | access-date = February 22, 2007 | archive-date = March 9, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180309052839/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/78839.stm | url-status = live }}</ref> Cameron apologized on the DVD commentary but stated that there were officers who fired gunshots to enforce the [[Women and children first|"women and children first" policy]].<ref name="commentary">{{cite video | people = James Cameron | title = Audio Commentary |medium = DVD | publisher = 20th Century Fox |year= 2005}}</ref> According to Cameron, his depiction of Murdoch is that of an "honorable man," not of a man "gone bad" or of a "cowardly murderer." He added, "I'm not sure you'd find that same sense of responsibility and total devotion to duty today. This guy had half of his lifeboats launched before his counterpart on the port side had even launched one. That says something about character and heroism."<ref>James Cameron's Titanic, p.&nbsp;129.</ref>
* [[Jonny Phillips (actor)|Jonathan Phillips]] as [[Charles Lightoller|Second Officer Charles Lightoller]].<ref name="Marsh&Kirland1998p66"/> Lightoller took charge of the port side evacuation. In the film, Lightoller informs Captain Smith that it will be difficult to see icebergs without breaking water and, after the collision, suggests that the crew begin boarding women and children in the lifeboats. He is seen brandishing a gun and threatening to use it to keep order. He can be seen on top of Collapsible B when the first funnel collapses. Lightoller was the most senior officer to survive the disaster.
* Film producer Kevin De La Noy as [[Herbert Pitman|Third Officer Herbert Pitman]],<ref name="Marsh&Kirland1998p66"/> who survived the sinking and manned [[Lifeboats of the Titanic#Lifeboat 5 (starboard)|Lifeboat 5]]
* [[Simon Crane]] as [[Joseph Boxhall|Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall]],<ref name="Marsh&Kirland1998p66"/> the officer in charge of firing flares and manning [[Lifeboats of the Titanic#Lifeboat 2 (port)|Lifeboat 2]] during the sinking. He is shown on the bridge wings helping the seamen firing the flares.
* [[Ioan Gruffudd]] as [[Harold Lowe|Fifth Officer Harold Lowe]],<ref name="Marsh&Kirland1998p66"/> the only officer to lead a lifeboat to retrieve survivors of the sinking from the icy waters. The film depicts Lowe rescuing Rose.
* Edward Fletcher as [[James Paul Moody|Sixth Officer James Moody]],<ref name="Marsh&Kirland1998p66"/> the only junior officer to have died in the sinking. The film depicts Moody admitting Jack and Fabrizio onto the ship only moments before it departs from Southampton. Moody is later shown following Murdoch's orders to put the ship to full speed ahead and informs Murdoch about the iceberg. He is last seen clinging to one of the davits on the starboard side after having unsuccessfully attempted to launch collapsible A.
* [[James Lancaster (actor)|James Lancaster]] as [[Thomas Byles|Father Thomas Byles]], a second-class passenger and a Catholic priest from England. He is portrayed praying and consoling passengers during the ship's final moments.
* [[Lew Palter]] and [[Elsa Raven]] as [[Isidor Straus|Isidor]] and [[Ida Straus]]. Isidor is a former owner of [[Macy's|R.H. Macy and Company]], a former congressman from New York, and a member of the New York and New Jersey Bridge Commission. During the sinking, the couple were offered seats on a lifeboat together. Isidor refused to go before all women and children have been evacuated, and urged his wife Ida to go ahead. Ida is portrayed refusing to board the lifeboat, saying that she will honor her wedding pledge by staying with Isidor. They are last seen lying on their bed, embracing each other as water fills their stateroom; the real Isidor and Ida Straus were also seen in an embrace but were actually seated on chairs in the A Deck before being swept by waves as the ship made its final plunge.
* [[Martin Jarvis (actor)|Martin Jarvis]] as [[Cosmo Duff-Gordon|Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon]], a Scottish baronet who is rescued in [[Titanic Lifeboat No. 1|Lifeboat 1]]. Lifeboats 1 and 2 were emergency boats with a capacity of 40. Situated at the forward end of the boat deck, these were kept ready to launch in case of a person falling overboard. On the night of the disaster, Lifeboat 1 was the fourth to be launched, with 12 people aboard, including Duff-Gordon, his wife and her secretary. The baronet was much criticized for his conduct during the incident. It was suggested that he had boarded the emergency boat in violation of the "women and children first" policy, and that the boat had failed to return to rescue those struggling in the water. He offered five pounds to each of the lifeboat's crew, which those critical of his conduct viewed as a bribe. The Duff-Gordons at the time (and his wife's secretary in a letter written at the time and rediscovered in 2007) stated that there had been no women or children waiting to board in the vicinity of the launching of their boat; there is confirmation that lifeboat 1 of the ''Titanic'' was almost empty, and that First Officer William Murdoch was apparently glad to offer Duff-Gordon and his wife and her secretary a place (simply to fill it) after they had asked if they could get on. Duff-Gordon denied that his offer of money to the lifeboat crew represented a bribe. The [[British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic|British Board of Trade's inquiry into the disaster]] accepted Duff-Gordon's denial of bribing the crew, but maintained that, if the emergency boat had rowed towards the people who were in the water, it might very well have been able to rescue some of them.<ref>''British Wreck Commissioner's Enquiry: Report.'' "Account of the Saving and Rescue of those who Survived: Conduct of Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon and Mr Ismay". Retrieved 8/23/12 at: {{cite web |url=http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTReport/BOTRepConduct.php |title=British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry Report|access-date=February 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103010821/http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTReport/BOTRepConduct.php |archive-date=January 3, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Letter clears 'blackguard of the Titanic' |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/02/ntitanic02.xml |access-date=May 5, 2007 |location=London |first=Nigel |last=Reynolds |date=May 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070716054503/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2007%2F05%2F02%2Fntitanic02.xml |archive-date=July 16, 2007 }}</ref>
* [[Rosalind Ayres]] as [[Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon|Lady Duff-Gordon]], a world-famous fashion designer and Sir Cosmo's wife. She is rescued in Lifeboat 1 with her husband. They never lived down rumors that they had forbidden the lifeboat's crew to return to the wreck site in case they would be swamped.<ref>Lynch, pp. 183–185</ref><ref>"Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon at the Titanic Inquiry," ''The Sketch'', May 22, 1912</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Conduct of Sir Cosmo-Duff Gordon and Mr. Ismay|publisher=Titanic Inquiry Project|url=http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq11LDuff-Gordon01.php|access-date=January 2, 2006|archive-date=April 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421173137/http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq11LDuff-Gordon01.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Jarvis and Ayres were husband and wife in real life.
* Rochelle Rose as [[Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes]]. The Countess is shown to be friendly with Cal and the DeWitt Bukaters. Despite being of a higher status in society than Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff-Gordon, she is kind, and helps row the boat and even looks after the steerage passengers.
* Scott G. Anderson as [[Frederick Fleet]], the lookout who saw the iceberg. Fleet escapes the sinking ship aboard Lifeboat 6.
* [[Paul Brightwell]] as [[Robert Hichens (sailor)|Quartermaster Robert Hichens]], one of the six quartermasters and at the ship's wheel at the time of collision. He is in charge of [[Titanic Lifeboat No. 6|lifeboat 6]]. He refuses to go back and pick up survivors after the sinking and eventually the boat is commandeered by Molly Brown.
* Martin East as [[Reginald Lee]], the other lookout in the [[crow's nest]]. He survives the sinking.
* [[Gregory Cooke]] as [[Jack Phillips (wireless operator)|Jack Phillips]], the senior wireless operator whom Captain Smith ordered to send the distress signal.
* [[Craig Kelly (actor)|Craig Kelly]] as [[Harold Bride]], a junior wireless operator.
* [[Liam Tuohy (actor)|Liam Tuohy]] as [[Charles Joughin|Chief Baker Charles Joughin]]. The baker appears in the film helping Rose stand up after she falls, following her and Jack to the ship's stern, and finally hanging onto the ship's railing as it sinks, drinking brandy from a flask. According to the real Joughin's testimony, he rode the ship down and stepped into the water without getting his hair wet. He also admitted to hardly feeling the cold, most likely thanks to alcohol.<ref>{{cite web| title = British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry: Day 6| url = http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq06Joughin01.php| publisher = Titanic Inquiry Project| year = 1999| access-date = August 3, 2010| archive-date = September 21, 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170921001504/http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq06Joughin01.php| url-status = live}}</ref> In a deleted scene, he's shown throwing deckchairs overboard before taking a drink from his bottle.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Adrienne |last=Tyler |date=2021-08-22 |title=Titanic Deleted Scenes Honor The Best True Stories Cut From The Movie |url=https://screenrant.com/titanic-movie-deleted-cut-scenes-true-stories/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=ScreenRant |language=en-US |archive-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307114920/https://screenrant.com/titanic-movie-deleted-cut-scenes-true-stories/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Titanic - Deleted Scene - Boat Six Won't Return [HD] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHCMp8C3KY&t=114s |website=YouTube | date=June 9, 2014 |access-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307115929/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHCMp8C3KY&t=114s |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Terry Forrestal]] as [[Joseph Bell (engineer)|Chief Engineer Joseph G. Bell]]: Bell and his men worked throughout the sinking to keep the lights and the power on in order for distress signals to get out. The film portrays Bell and all of the engineers as having died in the bowels of the ''Titanic'', however there is evidence to suggest that at least some of the engineers were released to come on deck when the flooding became severe. Greaser Frederick Scott testified to seeing eight engineers between approximately 1:50 and 1:55&nbsp;a.m. standing up against the electric crane on the starboard Boat Deck; by then, all the lifeboats had gone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq06Scott02.php |title=Day 6 - Testimony of Frederick Scott (Greaser, SS Titanic) |work=British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry  |date=10 May 1912 |access-date=9 April 2020}}</ref>