Characters / Titanic (1997)

This is the character sheet for characters, fictional and historical, of the 1997 film Titanic.

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Fictional characters (circa 1912)

Rose

Rose DeWitt Bukater

"I don't see what all the fuss is about. It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauretania."

"Titanic was called the ship of dreams, and it was. It really was."

Played By: Kate Winslet (1912) and Gloria Stuart (1996).

"I'll never let go."

The female protagonist of the film. She is a first-class passenger engaged to Cal Hockley. She couldn't bear the stress of her expectations and attempted suicide. She was saved by third-class passenger Jack Dawson, who she fell in love with. Together they start an affair that doesn't last long when Titanic strikes the iceberg.

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• Action Survivor: She's about as physically competent as someone you'd expect to have lived a pampered life. She manages to save Jack's life with a fire ax out of sheer luck but saves him nonetheless.
• Age-Appropriate Angst: She's 17 and rightfully upset about her arranged marriage and her overbearing mother.
• Age Cut: The plot is about her as an old lady reflecting on her time aboard the doomed ship. The movie is a series of flashbacks of her 17-year-old self.
• Awful Wedded Life: Had she married Cal, Rose's life would have most likely ended up following this trope.
• Badass Longcoat: She wears two. The first is a pink embroidered coat that she takes off before entering a partially-submerged deck to rescue Jack. The second is Cal's own coat that he gives her during the final stages of the sinking.
• Ballet: She's had enough training to know how hard it is to stand en pointe, something she points out to the "big, tough men" in third class.
• Been There, Shaped History: A downplayed example, but as a first-class passenger on the voyage, she has a few (mostly fleeting) interactions with some of the historical figures aboard the Titanic. But does next to nothing in actually impacting anything. These interactions are mostly with its architect, Thomas Andrews, who she has a few extended conversations with. Justified, as Rose is the daughter of a prominent family, engaged to the son of another; it would make sense that she'd at least be acquainted with some of the First-Class passengers, at least by reputation.
• Big "SHUT UP!": When Ruth callously asks if the boats will be loaded according to class, Rose finally has enough and tells her to shut up before explaining that half of the people on board are about to die. She later does it again with Jack when a steward berates them both for breaking down a door.
• Break the Haughty: Between her forbidden romance with Jack and enduring the sinking, this rather thoroughly applies to Rose.
• Brutal Honesty: Tries to use this to make Cal loosen his grip on her when she needs to save Jack. It doesn't work, so she ends up spitting in his eye.
• Byronic Hero: When taking her backstory into account, Rose has a lot of emotional issues that could fill the depth of Titanic's wreck site.
• Calling the Old Woman Out: Does this to her mother during the sinking.
• Character Catchphrase: “This is absurd!”
• Character Narrator: Most of the story is told from her first-person point of view.
• Color-Coded Characters: Her two evening gowns bear the color of her name.
• Cool Old Lady: Grows into one.
• The Cynic: She finds her upper-class lifestyle to be super boring and repetitive, hence her "I saw my whole life" spiel.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Though her life prior to the events of Titanic has yet to be given too much detail, what we do know about her childhood was that it was very stifling. See also Rebellious Spirit below.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Or Mommy in this case. She falls in love with the penniless Jack Dawson, whom her mother sees as "a dangerous insect which must be squashed quickly."
• Deadpan Snarker: 'Oh stop it, mother. You'll give yourself a nosebleed' towards Ruth, who forbids her daughter from seeing Jack again. She also makes quite a few quips in her old age.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Is this to Jack as she gradually discovers his depths and talents.
• Disappeared Dad: What we know about Rose’s father is that he is most likely dead and that he left the family debt-ridden.
• Driven to Suicide: Averted. Tries to kill herself but was talked down by Jack.
• Exact Words: After she survives the Titanic, she went on to do the thing she and Jack said they'd do together.
• Faking the Dead: After she survived the Titanic shipwreck, she started calling herself "Rose Dawson" and set off on her own in New York City in order to escape her abusive mother and fiancé and fulfill her promise to Jack to live her life as much as possible.
• Fiery Redhead: Rose is a pistol even when she's being polite. At lunch, she tells Mr. Ismay that Dr. Freud's ideas about the male preoccupation with size might be of particular interest to him. When Cal tries to stop her from going to save Jack, she tells him that she'd rather be Jack's whore than Cal's wife and spits in Cal's face. She has curly red hair.
• For Want Of A Nail: There is a chance that Jack could have survived…if Rose remained in the collapsible.
• Gilded Cage: How she sees her life.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Mostly shown in the third-class party scene. She drinks, smokes, and wasn't afraid to challenge the "big tough men" by showing her own strength by standing en pointe.
• Going Down with the Ship: Literally; the last part of the climax has her and Jack riding the stern down in the final plunge, making her one of only 6 people out of nearly 1,500 to survive this trope that night.
• Good with Numbers: During the tour of the ship, Rose tells Thomas Andrews that she worked out the sum of 20 lifeboats with a capacity of 65 and realized there aren't enough for everyone on board. He's impressed by this.
  Thomas Andrews: Rose, you miss nothing, do you?
• Hair-Trigger Temper: During the sinking, she snaps at both her mother and Cal and even a lift attendant when he denies her entry into the lift, saying "I'm through being polite!"
• Happily Married: Alluded to. Even though her husband is her Second Love, she did love him as much as she did Jack, even if she never told him her life before and during the Titanic.
• Hates Rich People: She hates rich people, which is evident by how she prefers spending time with the poor of society. This is a huge problem for her because she was born into a rich family in the late 1800s. However, it's worth noting that it's not the rich in and of themselves that she hates but rather their culture, as demonstrated by her interactions with the kindhearted and sympathetic Molly Brown and Thomas Andrews.
• The Heroine: The protagonist of the film and it happens to be her coming of age story.
• Her Heart Will Go On: Trope Codifier. After surviving the shipwreck, Rose sets out on her own, without any money to her name (save Cal's diamond, which she never fenced out of principle), without any friends or family, while facing potential trauma from witnessing 1,500 people die, including her love. But she keeps her promise to Jack and makes the most of her newfound freedom, savors her ability to choose her own path without her abusive family controlling her, and makes a good life for herself in time. Rose DeWitt Butaker is nothing if not a survivor.
• Hidden Depths: One of the main themes of the movie, and what Jack brings out in her.
• Honor Before Reason: Rose's love for Jack is so strong that she decides to jump back onto Titanic without giving a single thought to the consequences. Can also be seen as Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, for if Rose decided to stay put, Jack would have most likely had the panel all to himself.
• Iconic Outfit: Rose wears a different outfit in almost every scene up to the night of the sinking, all of which became iconic following the film's release.
• Impoverished Patrician: Rose may look wealthy, but thanks to her father, she's actually broke.
• I Just Want to Be Free: One of her reasons for running away from the stifling environment of her station. She earns it after she survives the sinking.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: As mentioned in the deleted scene “Rose’s Dreams”, Rose is uncomfortable with the trappings of her station and wants to experience being a destitute person.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Old Rose says "Wasn't I a dish?" after looking at the old nude drawing of herself.
• Last of His Kind: By the mid-1990s, there was only a small handful of Titanic survivors left, several of whom were too young to remember the ship at all. Rose would be tied with Edith Eileen Haisman, as both were born in the 19th Century and were teenagers during the sinking.
• Lonely at the Top: As far as her "I saw my whole life as though I already lived it" speech is concerned, Rose’s life in high society was very repetitive and extremely boring.
• Long-Lived: She lives to be 101, and if you prefer to interpret the ending as just her dreaming rather than dying, she may have gone on even longer.
• MacGuffin: The Heart of the Ocean necklace, which finds its way into her possession during her stay on the Titanic. It is worth a fortune, and sought after by treasure hunter Brock Lovett, leading to his encounter with elderly Rose.
• Ms. Fanservice: The outfits and corset sheath a curvy figure that she soon bares for Jack. She was quite a dish.
• Nice Girl: After warming up to Jack after he rescues her, she's very compassionate, is willing to go to great lengths to help anyone in trouble regardless of their class status, and prefers living a simple lifestyle.
• Nice to the Waiter: Treats her maids and the servants on the ship very politely, as opposed to her mother, who behaves as though they don't exist. She even offers to help her maid, Trudy, clean up after Cal throws a fit of rage and flips the table.
• Of Corset Hurts: She is not at all pleased while her mother tightens up her corset. This is metaphorical of Rose being strangled by her mother's control.
• Preppy Name: 'DeWitt Bukater' is an archetypal American preppy name, and as well as being hyphenated, it evidences Rose's Dutch heritage and therefore that her family has likely been in the United States for generations. Jack even jokes that she'll have to write it down for him.
• Purple Is Powerful: She is introduced in 1912 wearing her iconic purple hat and her pinstripe boarding suit has purple finishings and a purple belt.
• Rebellious Princess: Rose is far too difficult to impress because of the high society she comes from. Her fiancé even tells her that they are royalty. Despite this, she feels that the Titanic is a slave ship taking her back to America in chains. She would rather kill herself than continue the life she feels forced to live. She does learn to express this and break away.
• Runaway Fiancé: Due to the abuse she suffers at the hands of Cal, her mother’s selfishness, and a myriad of reasons concerning the restrictions of her upper-class lifestyle, Rose runs away from it all...but not until after the disaster.
• Second Love: Sometime after the sinking of the Titanic, she was able to start over and formed a family with another man as well as having children as a promise to Jack. She tells her granddaughter she never told her grandfather about herself and Jack, or possibly even the Titanic once she started to begin her life anew.
• Sophisticated as Hell: As an upper-class woman, she has a very elegant way of speaking. When she first meets Jack, she tries to tell him off in this way when he correctly sees how hesitant she is at jumping off the stern.
  Jack: No you won't [jump off the ship].
  Rose: What do you mean, no I won't? Don't presume to tell me what I will and will not do! You don't know me!
  Jack: Well, you would have done it, already.
• Spirited Young Lady: Quite snarky, and rebellious against upper-class society. Becomes full-blown after meeting Jack.
• Spiteful Spit: To Cal during the sinking.
• Spoiled Sweet: A Nice Girl from a rich family who is Nice to the Waiter and falls in love with the poor Jack Dawson.
• Start My Own: Some time after severing ties with her mother and Cal for good, she managed to make full use of her life, such as being a pilot and horseback riding, and finally settling down.
• That Man Is Dead: When a crewmember of Carpathia asks for her name, she calls herself Rose Dawson to leave her old life behind and start a new one.
• Together in Death: With Jack, if that's how you see it.
• Took a Level in Badass: Starts off with little more than sass and angst but grows into a courageous, assertive woman who defies authority and danger to do what her heart chooses.
• The Tragic Rose: Ye gods...
• Trophy Child: Ruth treats her as so.
• Trophy Wife: Had she gone ahead and married Cal, Rose would have most likely ended up as this.
• Tsundere: Towards Jack, at first.
• Uptown Girl: Hails from a rich family, but falls for poor Jack Dawson. Played much straighter with her and her husband after the Titanic since she deliberately left her old life with no money to her name, but did spend her life happily.
• White Sheep: Unlike her mother, she treats her maids with respect, and she hates her rich life due to the rich jerkasses for company and the stress it's giving her. She falls hard for poor Jack and wants to be with him, even if it means a life of financial struggles. She calls out on her mother for her self-absorbed attitude to the ship sinking with a Big "SHUT UP!". After she survives the sinking of Titanic, she pursues a simple lifestyle, partly because the family thought her dead, even if it was no big loss to her.
• Younger Than They Look: Rose looks very mature for a 17-year-old. Then again, Kate Winslet was 21 when she played her.

Jack

Jack Dawson

"I'm the king of the world!"

Played By: Leonardo DiCaprio

Male protagonist. A third-class passenger and skilled artist. He won the Titanic tickets at a gambling game and goes on the voyage with his friend Fabrizio. He saves Rose from committing suicide and soon befriends her. Their love affair doesn't last because shortly after, Titanic sinks.

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• Always Save the Girl: Jack's dedication to Rose is so strong that he ends up saving her life more than once...except for when he's handcuffed to a pipe.
• Bait-and-Switch: His survival is actually hinted at before being subverted. When Lewis is giving Rose's background check to Brock, he says that the earliest records from the 20s list her name as "Rose Dawson," suggesting he survives and they married. Instead, Jack dies during the sinking and Rose gives her name as "Dawson" when Carpathia arrives in New York.
• Been There, Shaped History: Downplayed, like Rose, Jack has a few, albeit fleeting encounters with several historical persons who were aboard the Titanic. Unlike Rose, who is at least acquainted with many of the First-Class passengers given her own status, Jack was a Third-Class passenger who was invited to a single dinner party. He has extended interactions with Molly Brown, who prepares him for the dinner party, offers him her son's tuxedo to wear, and gives him advice on how to present himself.
• Beware the Nice Ones: After a steward refuses to open a locked gate barring the third class passengers from reaching the deck and lifeboats, Jack loses his temper and, with the help of Fabrizio and Tommy, breaks a bench off the floor to use as a battering ram to bust the gate open himself.
• Chekhov's Skill: Jack mentions he's a good swimmer when he's trying to talk Rose out of killing herself. He later proves it once the ship goes down and they end up in the water.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Saves Rose, a complete stranger from committing suicide, and tries to save several more while on the Titanic.
• Cultured Badass: He's into painting, is into tap dancing, and manages to outlast most others through sheer force of will on a sinking ship. In a deleted scene, he gets into a fight with an armed Lovejoy, beating the latter down with his bare hands.
• Deadpan Snarker: Especially in his first interactions with Rose.
  Man: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...
  Jack: You wanna walk a little faster through that valley there?
• Deuteragonist: Rose is the focal character the story revolves around, but part of the story is also dedicated to showing Jack's struggle against social hierarchy.
• Determinator: Does everything in his power to make sure Rose survives.
• Distressed Dude: Rose has to rescue him during the flooding of the Master-At-Arms's cabin.
• The Dog Bites Back: While Lovejoy watches over him in the Master-At-Arms cabin, Lovejoy punches a subdued Jack in the stomach as "compliments of Mr. Caledon Hockley". When the two later fight in a deleted scene, Jack beats Lovejoy down and caps it off with a punch to his stomach, returning the favour: "Compliments of the Chippewa Falls Dawsons!"
• The Drifter: He prizes freedom and often travels from place to place working for a while but eventually moving on.
• Face Death with Dignity: Pretty impressive seeing as he was freezing to death with people dying all around him.
• Foil: To Cal, who sees Rose as a possession, while he sees her as a person. Rose herself probably sees this as well, as evidenced by her line "you see people". Jack is also thrilled to see that Rose owns paintings by Monet; Cal had considered those paintings to be a waste of money.
• Friend to All Children: Shown with his attitude towards Cora; later, he and Rose stop to save a boy while the ship is flooding.
• Going Down with the Ship: Literally; he and Rose ride the stern down in the final plunge.
• Good Is Not Soft: He has proven to be this when he has no problem beating Lovejoy in a deleted scene. Also, when one of surviving passengers clings to Rose in order to stay afloat and refuses to let her go in panic, Jack just punches him straight in the face with no hesitation.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Is a loyal friend, an honest lover, and a noble hero onboard the Titanic.
• The Hero: The 1912 scenes are as much his story as Rose's.
• The Hero Dies: He dies after making sure Rose is safe on a board, from hypothermia.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He gives his life to save Rose's just minutes before being rescued.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He thinks that Lovejoy will vouch for him having been in First Class the night before. Instead, Lovejoy tries to pay him off to stop seeing Rose.
• Improbable Self-Maintenance: Jack is depicted as being well-groomed and clean-shaven despite being a poor, third-class passenger.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Very playful and good-natured along with being the Love Interest and hero of the story.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Molly and Cora.
• Kill It with Ice: Jack's fate; he freezes to death in the arctic-cold ocean water (which would have been completely frozen if it was freshwater) before the lifeboat commanded by Officer Lowe returns.
• The Lost Lenore: He becomes the male version of this as she survives on a large piece of wood while he dies of hypothermia. Even after she married another man years after the Titanic, she still loves him.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Male example; he is a kind, free-spirited artist who takes an interest in a depressed, suicidal Rose, teaching her to live life on her own terms instead of wasting away as just another high-society wife.
• Nice Guy: A Friend to All Children, boy with a heart of gold who sees the best in people.
• Sex Signals Death: He has sex with Rose in the backseat of the Renault, and ends up freezing to death.
• Starving Artist: A talented but impoverished artist who was able to board the ship only after winning tickets in a lucky game of poker.
• Street Smart: He is pretty cultured with his worldly experience.
• Suddenly Shouting: The only time he loses his cool is when he confronts a locked gate and the steward only tells them to head for the main stairwell.
  Jack: Open the gate.
  Steward: Go back down the main stairwell.
  Jack: Open the gate right now.
  Steward: Go back down the main stairwell, like I told you.
  Jack: GOD DAMMIT!!! SON OF A BITCH!!!
• Together in Death: With Rose, based on your interpretation at the end.
• Un-person: At the end of the film, Lewis mentions that they weren't able to find any record of Jack's existence. Given his poor background, and self-described life of "being a tumbleweed blowing in the wind," Rose says that this was to be expected.
• White Shirt of Death: He's wearing a white shirt during the sinking and ultimately freezes to death.

Cal

Caledon Hockley

"A real man makes his own luck."

Played By: Billy Zane

A first-class passenger and Rose's fiancé. The son of Nathan Hockley, a steel tycoon in Pittsburgh, he is distrustful of Jack even when Jack saved Rose, and becomes wary of their friendship. Naturally, he gets mad when he finds out about their affair and plans to frame Jack for stealing the Heart of the Ocean. He would have gotten away with it if the boat had not hit the iceberg.

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• Affectionate Nickname: He frequently calls Rose "sweet pea," though often at moments in which he's being controlling and condescending.
• Age-Gap Romance: Cal is about 30 while Rose is 17.
• Animal Motifs: Billy Zane felt that Cal should behave like a cat during the sinking, stepping over everyone and everything to avoid getting wet.
• Asshole Victim: Rose mentions that he lost all his money during the 1929 Stock Market Crash, and committed suicide.
• Ate His Gun: Mentioned to have died this way by Rose, when he lost his riches after the 1929 Crash. Or so she heard.
• Big Bad: While the iceberg is the bigger threat as a whole, he is the main antagonistic character, being the one trying to get in the way of Rose and Jack's romance.
• Break the Haughty: He appears rather shaken after surviving the sinking.
• Character Tic: He has a habit of rapidly blinking when he's frustrated.
• Cheated Death, Died Anyway: He survives the sinking of the Titanic, only to die by suicide after the Crash of 1929.
• The Chessmaster: He's very good at coming up with elaborate schemes, and can quickly change course when things seem to be going badly for him. It's most apparent in the climax when he tries to frame Jack.
• Control Freak: He's clearly somewhat domineering and controlling towards Rose, as exemplified by the fact that he grabs her cigarette to put it out and orders them both the same lamb dish for lunch, casually asking Rose "You like lamb, right, sweet pea?" with the implication that she'll eat it whether she likes it or not. Molly Brown jokes about whether he's going to cut Rose's meat for her as well, but she's visibly concerned.
  • In a deleted line from the May 1996 draft of the script, it's established that Cal's party arrived late to the dock because he had Rose change at the last minute; she was wearing black and he said it's bad luck to wear black on sailing day. He even controlled what she wore.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Jack, a lowly nobody, winning his fiancée's heart slowly but surely sends him over the deep end.
• Deadpan Snarker: One of his few redeeming qualities is his quick, sharp wit, and talent for occasionally firing off darkly humorous rejoinders.
  Cal: I had hoped you would come to me last night.
  Rose: I was tired.
  Cal: Your exertions below decks were no doubt exhausting.
• Dirty Coward: He's shown shoving people out of the way to get onto the lifeboats, despite the apparent "women and children first" attitude.
• Disposable Fiancé: Every appearance he makes reinforces the notion that he cannot make Rose happy. You might as well say that he is the textbook example of the "fiancé from Hell."
• Domestic Abuser: To Rose, whom he strikes in frustration after she continues to see Jack and defy him.
• Driven to Suicide: Old Rose mentions that after the 1929 Stock Market Crash (which also finished off the White Star Line in real life), he "put a pistol in his mouth."
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite being an asshole towards Rose and snobbish towards Jack, even Cal qualifies for this trope:
  • He immediately takes the situation seriously when he learns the ship will sink.
  • He offered Rose his coat before she went on lifeboat, although it was likely for modesty.
  • He looked at Murdoch with shock after the latter accidentally killed Tommy, even though Cal did attempt to kill Rose and Jack with a pistol.
  • He is visibly shocked when he sees the first funnel collapse and crush several people in the water.
  • He guiltily tried to search for Rose and narrowly missed her.
• Entitled to Have You: He has this sort of attitude with Rose.
• Faux Affably Evil: Towards Jack and Rose, initially. Later he stops pretending to be affable.
• Fiction 500: He is explicitly mentioned to not be richer than John Jacob Astor, who was the richest man on the ship, but being the son of a steel tycoon certainly makes him one of the wealthiest people on board. He and Rose travel in one of the Parlor Suites, which were the most expensive cabins that Titanic had to offer.
• Flat "What": Say this when Thomas Andrews informs him and Rose that Titanic is doomed.
• Foil: To Jack, who sees Rose as a person, while he sees her as a possession. He also considers Rose's art collection to have been a waste of money, while Jack was thrilled to see she owned a painting by Monet.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: While descending down the Grand Staircase, Cal casually remarks to Ruth that Titanic was built with several thousand tons of Hockley steel, in "all the right parts."
• Gallows Humor: After realizing he's waist-deep in the flooding First-Class dining saloon, the last thing Cal says to Jack and Rose is "I hope you enjoy your time together!"
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Cal can easily lose his cool, as shown several times when he slaps Rose, flips the breakfast table, and accuses Jack of putting his hands on her when he tried to save her life.
• Hate Sink: The audience can't hate the iceberg that causes the disaster on the title ship, as it is a force of nature, but they can hate this guy. He disparages the Picasso paintings; he verbally and physically abuses Rose; he tries to have Jack killed; is revealed to care more about money than Rose; and finally cons his way onto a lifeboat using a small child to save his pathetic hide. But the karma gods are not mocked: in the aftermath of the disaster, Cal loses the Heart of the Ocean diamond, loses Rose, and eventually loses his fortune and takes his own life.
• Heel Realization: He cared for Rose far too late since the Titanic sank. And since Rose deliberately hid herself with a blanket, it was the last time she ever saw him. The 1995 screenplay draft and deleted scene on the Carpathia also implied this.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Cal's attempts to exert control over Rose backfire twice in the film.
  • Cal invites Jack to dinner in first class as a reward for saving Rose. There's an implication that he does so to also get a laugh out of a common man attempting to mingle among the ship's elite, as he snidely says to Gracie "This should be interesting." However, Jack is able to get a tuxedo from Molly Brown, and not only does he manage to charm the pants off the first-class diners, but Rose's feelings towards Jack begin to deepen.
  • When Cal is shooting at Jack and Rose in the Grand Staircase, he slips on a balustrade that he just blasted off. This costs him valuable seconds and allows the two to maintain their lead as they flee deeper into the ship.
• Honor Before Reason: After bribing Murdoch, Cal has the chance to leave the ship. Then Lovejoy tells him that he saw Jack and Rose on the other side waiting for a boat. Cal then leaves to get her back.
• I Gave My Word: In the 1995 screenplay draft, Cal finds Rose on Carpathia, but she firmly tells him that he will never seek her again or else she'll expose his dishonorable actions during the sinking. He asks what he should tell her mother, and she replies "Tell her that her daughter died on the Titanic." As the historical record listed Rose among those who perished, Cal at the very least kept his word.
• I Lied: When trying to get Rose into the last lifeboat, Cal tells her that he has an arrangement with Murdoch that can allow both him and Jack to get off safely. However, Jack quickly figures out that he's not part of that deal.
  Cal: You're a good liar.
  Jack: Almost as good as you. There's, uh, there's no arrangement, is there?
  Cal: No, there is. Not that you'll benefit much from it. I always win, Jack. One way or another.
• I Shall Taunt You: He can't help himself doing this when trying to get Rose into Lifeboat 6. His response to her telling Ruth that half the people on the ship are about to die is to say it won't be "the better half," and then smugly says he wished he kept the drawing as it will be worth a lot more once the ship sinks, taking the artist with it. Rose quickly realizes his callous disregard for human life and that he did frame Jack for stealing the diamond.
• Ignored Aesop: Implied. If nothing else, the sinking was a hard, needed lesson for Cal that Money Is Not Power (and best exemplified in his final exchange with Murdoch). But from Old Rose's exposition in his final scene, it's strongly implied Cal learned absolutely nothing from the sinking and didn't change. His obsession with money endured up to Crash of '29 (and indeed triggered his suicide).
• Insurance Fraud: An ironic, unintentional variation. After he fails to find Rose among the survivors, Cal and his father naturally assume the Heart of the Ocean went down with the ship and file a secret insurance claim. Neither of them realizes Rose is still alive and still has the diamond, so that means the Hockleys technically committed insurance fraud without knowing it (nor would they ever find out).
• Irony: He tries to see Ruth and Rose into Lifeboat 6 with Molly Brown. Had he not gone after Rose when she left to find Jack, Lightoller would have realized the boat didn't have enough oarsmen and, being an experienced rower, Cal likely would have gotten a seat instead of Arthur Peuchen.
• It Will Never Catch On: He considers the paintings that Rose bought in Paris to have been a waste of money and thinks one of the artists, "something Picasso," will never amount to a thing.
• Ivy League for Everyone: A deleted scene establishes that Cal went to Harvard.
• Jerk Jock: The aforementioned deleted scene establishes that Cal was on the rowing team at Harvard.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Only redeemable thing he did was save a little girl, and that was only so he could get on a lifeboat.
• Jerkass: He regards Rose as a possession and Trophy Wife to control, has all the makings of an abusive husband, is very ungrateful towards Jack even after he saved Rose, is an enormous snob who looks down on anybody who isn't even remotely wealthy, only saved a child just to secure a place on the lifeboat and is just an all-around insufferably rude and arrogant asswipe who all but exists to make Jack look better by comparison.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Cal isn't exactly wrong to be upset with Rose (his intended) for running off for several hours to go with Jack to a lower-deck party. This would be outrageously scandalous for the time, as it calls Rose's virginity and future faithfulness as a wife into question. Cal could even sue for Breach of Promise of Marriage. Of course, he takes it too far when he indulges in some Domestic Abuse by flipping over the breakfast table.
  • During the sinking, Cal throws a number of people off as they try to climb into Collapsible A. However, the boat is dangerously close to getting swamped at that point. If they did get in, it could have tipped the boat over and killed everyone in it.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: True, he survives the sinking, but as far as he knows, Rose is dead and the Heart of the Ocean is lost forever, which is a bit of karmic retribution in its own right. And years later, he loses most, if not all, of his fortune and kills himself; in a deleted scene Rose says that his children 'fought like hyenas over the scraps of his estate'.
• Kick the Dog: In the span of one night, Cal frames Jack for stealing the Heart of the Ocean, slaps Rose, bribes William Murdoch, attempts to shoot Jack and Rose, and is seen attacking people trying to get on a lifeboat during the sinking.
• Killed Offscreen: He's not seen again after he tries and fails to find Rose after the survivors are rescued. Old Rose just mentions that Cal 'put a pistol in his mouth' after losing his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": When we first see Cal, he's positively giddy about boarding the Titanic and can't understand why Rose seems so indifferent to it.
• Lack of Empathy: Has no regards for Rose's feelings, and when she tells him and her mother that half the people on Titanic will die as she sinks, Cal's only response is that the "better half" will survive.
• Laughing Mad: After he tries and fails to shoot Jack and Rose, he begins chuckling to himself. Lovejoy asks him what "could possibly be funny?" to which Cal responds that he remembered he had the Heart of the Ocean in his coat that he gave to Rose to wear, which she just ran off with.
• Manipulative Bastard: When Rose goes to save Jack, Cal pretends he doesn't want Rose to be with Jack out of concern for her well-being.
  Cal: Where are you going? To him? To be a whore to a gutter rat?
  Rose: I'd rather be his whore than your wife.
• Money Is Not Power: He stuffs a wad of bills into Murdoch's pocket in order to secure his passage off the ship. Murdoch throws it back at him when he tries to invoke the arrangement.
  Murdoch: Your money can't save you anymore than it could save me!
• Nice to the Waiter: Cal tips the porter in Southampton with a five-pound note, which is like tipping £100 today. He also suggests giving Jack a $20 bill, after being convinced that he saved Rose's life, which is roughly the equivalent of $500 in 2017. Subverted, since he turns out to be a huge, greedy, and jealous jerkass to both Jack and Rose.
• Noodle Incident: Downplayed, but implied by the screenplay, which states that Lovejoy was hired by Cal's father to keep his son out of trouble. The implication is that Cal did something prior to the events of the film that his father couldn't ignore and which necessitated the presence of someone like Lovejoy. What is never revealed in the script or on-screen.
• Oh, Crap!: When Thomas Andrews explains to Rose that the ship will sink, Cal immediately takes the situation seriously and tries to see Rose and Ruth into the lifeboats. Later when Lowe fires off some warning shots, he realizes that the order on board the ship is starting to collapse.
• Pet the Dog: There are a few small examples of Cal being anything but a selfish git.
  • During dinner in First Class, Cal refers to Jack's accommodations as Third Class rather than steerage, showing an attempt to be diplomatic as "steerage" carried connotations of cramped and squalid conditions while "third-class" afforded immigrants a degree of respectability.
  • Cal speaks boisterously about how the ship is unsinkable. However, when he learns the ship will sink, he immediately takes the situation seriously and tries to see to the safety of Ruth and Rose before himself.
  • When he finally finds Rose at the last lifeboat, he gives her his overcoat to keep her warm.
  • After getting onto a lifeboat, he humbly accepts a flask from someone.
  • He uses a little girl solely to con his way onto a lifeboat and has no problem pushing away other people in the water trying to get on their boat at the risk of capsizing, but the child he instead hands off to another female passenger in the boat to take care while he aids other male passengers in keeping the boat afloat amidst the chaos of the sinking. Both the little girl and the female passenger are seen alive in the lifeboat next to Cal after the sinking.
  • After getting on the Carpathia, he looks for Rose on the boat, his expression becoming increasingly forlorn as he can't find her, showing he does care about Rose beyond being his prize. (While the film leaves it open if he was also still thinking about the diamond, an extended Carpathia scene makes it clear he was worried about her).
• Pragmatic Villainy: If Rose's narration at the end is anything to go by, the only reason Cal ever wanted to marry her was so he could "inherit his millions".
• Shipping Torpedo: Wants to keep Rose and Jack apart so that the wedding can go ahead as planned.
• A Sinister Clue: When he undergoes his Villainous Breakdown the last time he sees Jack, he uses Lovejoy's pistol in his left hand in his attempt to shoot Jack.
• Smug Snake: Practically everything he says is dripping in self-satisfaction. In fact, while he considers himself a "businessman" and better than other people, it's clear that his fortune is due to his father Nathan's efforts, not Cal's. His fortune evaporating in the Great Depression seems to confirm this, implying that Cal made many bad investments that relied on a bull market. He's also, for all his wealth and power, not especially competent as an antagonist.
• Stealth Insult: He does this quite a bit around Jack. After Rose says that Jack is "quite a fine artist," Cal remarks that he and Rose "differ somewhat in their opinion of fine art."
• Stupid Evil: While he does come up with some successful schemes such as framing Jack, bribing First Officer Murdoch (initially), and using a child to buy sympathy from Chief Officer Wilde, he also makes many mistakes because of his ego. He can't resist gloating to Rose about Jack's impending death before they're on the lifeboats instead of after, cluing her in that Jack is innocent and giving her an opportunity to try and save him. When his second attempt to win back Rose and take Jack out of the picture fails, he wastes time chasing after them with a pistol on a rapidly sinking ship. Giving up his seat on a lifeboat when Murdoch is willing to let him on and then coming back later after the aforementioned chase to demand another seat pisses the latter off so much that he throws Cal's money back in his face.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Was a tad apathetic when Jack first saved Rose. He only showed gratitude when Rose points this out, and he only likely did it to save face.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • When it's clear that Rose won't leave the ship without Jack, he grabs Lovejoy's pistol and tries to shoot them both.
  • He has a brief one when Murdoch throws his bribe back in Cal's face, pointing out that his money isn't going to save him.
• Would Hit a Girl: Slaps Rose across the face in one scene, and also flips the breakfast table to bully her into not seeing Jack. Not to mention trying to shoot her when she's running away with Jack in the sinking Titanic.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Just when it looks as though Rose and Jack are going to abandon Cal and her mother for good, the Titanic hits the iceberg, he frames Jack for stealing the Heart of the Ocean and it’s all downhill from here.

Fabrizio

Fabrizio De Rossi

"I can see Statue of Liberty already! Very small, of course!"

Played By: Danny Nucci

Jack's best friend who accompanies him on the voyage to America.

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• Beta Couple: Fabrizio and Helga were originally intended to be this.
• Character Catch Phrase: "Figlio di puttana!"
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Crushed to death by the falling funnel.
• Death by Looking Up: He's last seen looking up at one of the Titanic's smoke stacks falling on him.
• Determinator: After Tommy is shot, Fabrizio makes a concerted effort to survive. After taking Tommy's life jacket, he helps cut the lines of Collapsible A before he is swept away and nearly sucked inside the ship. He sees the overturned Collapsible B and makes a dash for it, but that's when the forward funnel begins to collapse...
• Funny Foreigner: The comedic relief and is immigrating from Italy to America by way of Britain.
• Going Down with the Ship: Crushed by the first funnel to fall in the final stages of the sinking after he can't get on a lifeboat (and this is minutes after Tommy's and Murdoch's deaths). He and everyone else who died return in the final "dream" scene of the film.
• The Lancer: To Jack.
• Large Ham: Doesn't have an indoor voice.
• Nice Guy: Very friendly and caring of his friends. He even asked for Helga's consent before he put his hand on her back during the party scene.
• Sacrificial Lion: Dies in a scene where one of the smoke stacks falls on a crowd of people.
• Squashed Flat: Fabrizio is crushed by the forward funnel when it collapses. In real life, Lightoller reported this as having happened to Murdoch.
• Tragic Dream: He's a passenger hoping to fulfill his dream of immigrating to America and becoming a big success. He doesn't even get to step foot in the country as he's crushed to death during the ship's sinking.

Lovejoy

Spicer Lovejoy

"Compliments of Mr. Caledon Hockley."

Played By: David Warner

Cal's right-hand man accompanying him during the voyage. He helps Cal frame Jack for stealing the Heart of the Ocean. During the sinking, he and Cal try to look for a way off the ship when their access was denied.

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• Asshole Victim: After doing Cal's dirty work for him, Lovejoy is standing right at the point where the ship breaks apart.
• Battle Butler: A loyal servant to Cal, who also packs heat and lays the beat down on Rose's romantic interests.
• Bling-Bling-BANG!: His Colt M1911 semi-automatic pistol, which is nickel-plated with pearl grips.
• Crazy-Prepared: As seen with this line.
  Cal: I make my own luck.
  Lovejoy: (shows a holstered pistol) So do I.
• Danger Deadpan: While watching Jack in the master-at-arms's office, Lovejoy rolls a bullet across a table in order to demonstrate the ship's growing tilt. He then casually remarks to Jack "You know, I do believe this ship may sink."
• The Dragon: To Cal.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In a deleted scene, he calls Cal a bastard after he tries to kill Jack and Rose. Doesn't stop him from trying to kill her during the same scene, though.
• Every Man Has His Price: He attempts to pay off Jack to stop him from seeing Rose again, but when he refuses his money, Lovejoy simply pays the stewards to escort him back to third class.
• Going Down with the Ship: In the end, Cal loses him (the scene where Cal ditches Lovejoy was cut), and he fails to find a lifeboat and is on the part of the ship that splits in two right before it sinks.
• Ironic Name: His surname at least. He's hard to love and not a joy to be around.
• Inspector Javert: Suspects Jack from their first meeting. Lovejoy is obsessed with catching Jack and Rose. Also is mentioned to have been a policeman, so this fits.
• Not So Above It All: While Hockley silently fumes over the nude sketch of Rose, Lovejoy makes a point of looking away...except for a couple of times when his eyes shift to sneak a glance.
• Not So Stoic: While mostly unflappable, even while doing Cal's dirty work, he is quite understandably alarmed when the ship starts to split in two right underneath him.
• Oh, Crap!: When he sees the ship starting to break apart beneath his feet.
• Pet the Dog: The kindest thing he does is let Jack have two of his cigarettes.
• Pinkerton Detective: According to the script, before he was hired by Cal's father to keep him out of trouble. He's also mentioned in passing to have been a policeman at one point. Real-life Pinkertons were also just about as nice as Lovejoy.
• Precision F-Strike: He calls Jack "you little shit" when fighting him in a deleted scene.
• Satellite Character: He spends most of the film hovering around Cal and it seems apparent to some fans that he doesn't have a mind of his own.
• Smug Snake: He’s a smug jackass the entire film, but he finally shows some humanity in what are surely his final moments when he is bloody, beaten, and holding on for dear life in pure fear as the ship splits in two.
• Spotting the Thread: He immediately notices the flaws in the story of Rose and Jack meeting, pointing out that she slipped so suddenly and yet Jack had the time to remove his jacket and shoes. Justified given his police background.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Suffers this in the final film, but it's more pronounced in the deleted scenes. Cal abandons Lovejoy during the sinking after chasing Jack and Rose into the dining saloon, saying that he can keep the diamond if he catches them.

Ruth

Ruth DeWitt Bukater

"So, this is the ship they say is unsinkable."

Played By: Frances Fisher

Rose's indifferent mother. While she loves her daughter, she sees class before Rose's happiness.

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• Abusive Mom: Of the emotional variety. She tries to guilt-trip and emotionally manipulate Rose into marrying a man she knows is violent and abusive, essentially selling her out as property, purely so she will retain her reputation and status and won't have to get a job to support herself. Rose eventually lets her believe she is dead so she can get away from her as much as she does Cal.
• Anger Born of Worry: A possible interpretation. Not only is she scared of losing her daughter's affection, but she fears Rose may lose control of her manners. Ruth goes mildly ballistic when Rose openly defies her wishes in marrying Cal, believing her "perfect daughter" is throwing her life and future away.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: Depending on your interpretation. She constantly belittles the lower classes, and even Rose isn't always safe from her mother's domineering behavior.
• Break the Haughty: Ruth spends much of the film being a patronizing society empress who only wants what she believes is best for Rose. As soon as Rose leaves her, it is safe to assume that she finally sees the error of her ways.
• Classic Villain: Pride and Greed, with a dash of Sloth, seeing as she essentially forces her daughter into marrying a sexist man and plans on using Rose and Cal's wealth to vicariously climb the social ladder without having to lift a finger herself.
• Color-Coded Characters: Most of her dresses are green and black, reflecting her greed for Cal's money.
• Death Glare: Old Rose lampshades this by saying Ruth looked at Jack like "a dangerous insect which must be squashed quickly."
• Dramatically Missing the Point: While boarding the lifeboat, she asks one of the attending crewmen if the lifeboats are being seated by class and states that she hopes the boat won't be too crowded in a manner that would almost be comical if not for the legitimate seriousness of the situation. This statement earns her a well-deserved glare from Rose and prompts Rose to call out her mother for maintaining such a haughty attitude amidst such a grand tragedy.
• Even Evil Has Standards: The one thing that prevents Ruth from being a total Hate Sink, despite her personality and her attempts at keeping Jack and Rose apart, is that she is not entirely malicious, and since she is doing what she believes is best for her daughter, her actions are minor compared to Cal.
• Evil Counterpart: To Molly Brown.
• Evil Matriarch: Not so much evil as appearing to be a very proper lady who prioritizes money and class over things like her daughter's happiness and the lives of other people who aren't of her social class.
• Evil Redhead: She has red hair like her daughter and is one of the main antagonists.
• Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: One of the most popular interpretations of Ruth’s ultimate fate is that she did indeed end up becoming a seamstress, just as she warned Rose.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Mother: Implied to be one, depending on how much she knows about Rose’s dreams.
• Fate Worse than Death: Considers losing her riches this.
• Faux Affably Evil: Judging by the tone of her voice, she is being cordial to Jack during the dinner scene. Her words are a textbook example of Stealth Insult.
• Freudian Excuse: Ruth may be a bit of bitch, but since her husband died (leaving her and Rose with nothing but a mass of debts to their name), it's understandable that she would want to stay wealthy. Her line “We’re women, our choices are never easy.” somewhat implies that she has already accepted her fate.
  • Even Frances Fisher sympathizes with Ruth. She even tried to make her character more three-dimensional and understanding, but James Cameron wouldn't have any of it.
• Gold Digger: A variant. After her husband died and left her and Rose completely bankrupt, Ruth forced her daughter into an arranged marriage with Cal for his money.
• Grande Dame: A tragic variation.
• Hypocrite: Accuses Rose of being selfish for not wanting to marry Cal when all she cares about is to be rich again.
• Impoverished Patrician: According to Ruth, the death of her husband left her with nothing but "a legacy of bad debts hidden by a good name." Depending on one’s interpretation of what became of her after the sinking, she might have ended up like this for the rest of her life.
• Insistent Terminology: During dinner in First Class, Ruth asks Jack how the accommodations are in steerage. White Star Line had done away with the term and referred to the accommodations strictly as Third Class, in order to give more respectability to immigrant passengers. It's another sign of how Ruth sneers at people she sees as beneath her.
• It's All About Me: A textbook example; all she cares about is getting back the status and lifestyle she believes that she deserves. Rose even implies this.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Despite forcing Rose to marry Cal just so she can remain rich as well as being a gold digger, Ruth wasn't exactly wrong when she tells Rose that being a woman means their choices are never easy, particularly as this film takes place during a period where women in middle-class and upper-class households had very little say on what they can or cannot do and their prerogative was to obey their husbands and were forbidden to do what they wanted. Ironically, this film takes place during the infamous Suffragette era when women protested to meet their demands for freedom and the right to vote.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She cares deeply for her daughter, but sadly still wanted her to marry a very wealthy albeit abusive man to keep her social class. It doesn't take until Rose runs off on her lifeboat and the final stages of Titanic's sinking for her to realize what she had done.
• Killed Offscreen: Her fate after the sinking is not revealed, but it is safe to say she's long dead by the time Rose comes aboard the Keldysh.
• Laser-Guided Karma: She tried to force Rose into a loveless marriage in order to maintain her wealthy lifestyle. Her actions end up driving Rose away and result in her apparent death, leaving Ruth without the money she so desperately desired. Whether or not she found other ways of retaining her riches or ended up dirt poor can only be guessed at.
• Love-Obstructing Parents: After Rose's excursion with Jack in third class has her and Cal at wit's end, Ruth tries to see to it that the two must never see each other again.
• My Beloved Smother: She’s so protective of Rose to the point where she tries to dissuade her from smoking.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Believes she drove Rose away and likely believed that she died in the sinking. The look on her face as she watches the Titanic, Rose (presumed), and 1,500 other people in their death throes is one of horror.
• Nice to the Waiter: Averted. Unlike her daughter, Ruth treats her maids as servants only. When being ordered into the lifeboats, she tells them to turn the heater on and prepare a cup of tea in the suite. Both Trudy and Ruth's own personal maid remain on the ship after she departs, and perish in the sinking.
• Obliviously Evil: Ruth only thinks she is doing what is best for Rose, but in reality, she is only hurting her. Rose doesn’t even bother to explain to her why she would rather be with Jack because she knows that she is so delusional that she will never to listen to reason.
• Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Being an upper-class Grande Dame and Social Climber makes her one by default with the prejudices against people from the lower classes mixing with her circle socially or even in lifeboats along with how she tries to make Rose fit into the 1912 mold of womanhood (even not seeing why a woman would attend college aside from getting her MRS Degree); it gets worse after the ship hits the iceberg, how she demands the seating arrangements for the lifeboats, sending her maid Trudy out to make her tea, and overall being worried about a crowded lifeboat, considering there are over a thousand people on the ship (including children) who would die.
• Parents as People: She does love Rose, but her obsession with maintaining class and status means she neglects Rose's emotional health in favor of her own social advancement. Ruth does feel horrible when she thinks her daughter died.
• Parents Suck at Matchmaking: "It is a fine match with Hockley, it will ensure our survival," says the woman who may or may not be aware of how abusive and misogynistic her future son-in-law is.
• Pet the Dog: Has at least two moments of this:
  • She kisses Rose on the cheek in the final minutes of the corset-lacing scene.
  • The end of the extended Carpathia sequence has her looking for Rose. Her expression is one of genuine concern.
• Rich Bitch: Has an extremely rude and snobby attitude towards anyone who is not wealthy.
• Shipping Torpedo: Wants to keep Rose and Jack from falling in love so that she can maintain her social status.
• Social Climber: This seems to be Ruth’s major goal and the reason she's attempting so hard to have her daughter marry Cal.
• The Sociopath: Depending on your interpretation. She sees Rose as nothing more than a means to riches and has no concern for her feelings or forcing her to marry Cal. This is downplayed with Rose finally leaves her.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: She appears cold and dismissive towards Rose and what she really wants in life, but it becomes hard not to feel sorry for her, as she is apparently still in mourning for her husband and has no option other than emotional abuse to discipline her daughter.
• Stealth Insult: Does this around Jack in the dinner scene.
• Too Proud for Lowly Work: Ruth would rather marry her daughter off to an abusive (but rich) Control Freak than work a menial job. When she talks to Rose about the latter's rebellious behavior that can ruin the engagement, she asks, in a shaky voice, if Rose would rather see her working as a seamstress.
• Ungrateful Bitch: Shows nothing but utter contempt for the young man who saved her daughter's life, caring more about class than character.
• Villainous Breakdown: She has one when Rose refuses to board Lifeboat 6. You can hear Ruth screaming for the crew to wait when they're ready to lower.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Ruth survives the sinking, but she is not seen or mentioned again after the lifeboats are in the ocean, and no mention is made as to what happened to her or how she coped with Rose's "death". Seeing as how she was warning Rose that if she didn't get married, Ruth would have had to become a seamstress. As Rose had read what happened to Cal in the newspapers, but makes no mention of what happened to her mother, it's likely she made no attempt to find out at all.
• Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Ruth would rather see Rose being brought up as a proper society girl than an actress or a dancer. The closest we get to this is her asking Rose: "Why are you being so selfish?"

Tommy

Tommy Ryan

Played By: Jason Barry

"Ah, forget it, boyo. You're as like to have angels fly out your arse as get next to the likes of her."

An Irish immigrant who befriends Jack and Fabrizio.

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• Deadpan Snarker: Keeps this up even during the sinking.
  Tommy: [as they run past Titanic's orchestra still playing on deck] Music to drown by. Now I know I'm in first class!
• Determinator: Tommy desperately urges the crew to let the third-class passengers up to the deck and succeeds in helping Jack and Fabrizio bust the gates holding them back. He makes it to the deck but is sadly shot by Murdoch before he can make any attempt at the last lifeboat when the situation gets out of hand.
• Going Down with the Ship: Despite his attempts to survive, Tommy never makes it off the ship; he's shot by Murdoch accidentally (Murdoch then turns the gun on himself), and both become part of the casualty list and are among the people seen in the "Ship of Dreams" ending with everyone who died that night.
• Oireland: Has a very thick Irish accent, gets in competitions, is friendly, drinks, and uses very sentimental colloquialisms.
• Sacrificial Lion: Shot by Murdoch after a panicky passenger pushes him closer to the lifeboat.
• Suddenly Shouting: "FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAN! THERE ARE WOMEN AND CHILDREN DOWN HERE!"
• Talk to the Fist: Delivers one to a steward who is yelling at them after breaking down one of the gates.

Cora

Cora Cartmell

Played By: Alexandrea Owens

A young English girl who Jack befriends.

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• Alliterative Name: The script shows her full name to be Cora Cartmell.
• Big Brother Worship: To Jack.
• Going Down with the Ship: Cora and her parents are not seen after a steward bangs their cabin door open and tells them to get their life belts, but they do not survive. In a deleted scene, they are still in a flooded area and are trapped behind a locked gate.
• Killed Offscreen: Drowns with her parents. Their death was filmed but cut as Cameron found it too distressing.
• Precocious Crush: Has a crush on Jack.

Trudy

Trudy Bolt

Played By: Amy Gaia

Rose's maid.

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• Death by Adaptation: An interesting example. Trudy is an entirely fictional character, however her death in the sinking clashes with the historical fact that all of the women servants in first class survived. This was likely to emphasize the belief of the rich elites being callous as they leave their faithful servants to die.
• Going Down with the Ship: She is seen holding on to someone as the ship's tilt increases, then she slips and slides down into the water.
• Nice to the Waiter: Rose treats her as a friend while both Cal and Ruth treat her as little more than a servant. When the ship is sinking, Ruth tells her to go back to their rooms to turn the heater on and ready a cup of tea, and she doesn't even wait for her when boarding the lifeboat. It's made all the worse by the fact that she is implied to be their long-term family maid, rather than one hired specifically for this voyage.
• Satellite Character: She only appears around Rose but not all the time.

Nathan

Nathan Hockley

A steel tycoon from Pittsburgh, and Cal's father.

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• Abusive Parent: Dialogue about him seems to indicate that he was a no better parent to Cal than Ruth was to Rose.
• The Ghost: He never appears on-screen.
• Greater-Scope Villain: During Cal's youth, Nathan was apparently more concerned about his son losing his money than getting into trouble. It's also implied that he wouldn't allow Cal his inheritance unless he married. Clearly, Cal had the kind of upbringing that made him the jerkass we know him to be. It also gives us a clue as to what Rose's life would have been like if she hadn't escaped her abusive family.
• Insurance Fraud: He was the one who filed a claim on the diamond necklace after the sinking, having it settled under terms of absolute secrecy. However, neither him nor his son knew that Rose was alive and still had the diamond.
• Skewed Priorities: In a deleted scene, Rose says that Nathan hired Lovejoy to make sure Cal got back home with his wallet rather than his skin.

Helga

Helga Dahl

Played By: Camilla Overbye Roos

A Norwegian immigrant whom Fabrizio becomes enamored with.

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• All There in the Manual: She was part of a subplot that ended up being cut from the film. Her scenes are included in the DVD and Blu-ray special features.
• Beta Couple: She and Fabrizio were originally intended to be this.
• Demoted to Extra: After her scenes were cut, she only prominently appears in the film during the party in steerage and on the stern during the final moments of the sinking.
• Foil: To Rose, as was originally intended. She is a steerage passenger who finds love within her own social class and obeys her parents' strict commands.
• Going Down with the Ship: She is shown hanging on to the stern as it stands vertically until she can't hang on anymore and falls into the other passengers.
• Honor Before Reason: In a deleted scene, she is with Fabrizio and Tommy when Jack and Rose find them during the sinking. However, Helga refuses to leave her parents, forcing Fabrizio to say goodbye. Had she gone with Jack's group, which did make it to the boat deck, she probably would have survived.
• Language Barrier: In a deleted scene, Fabrizio attempts to chat her up despite her only knowing Norwegian.
• Meet Cute: Helga can be seen looking back at Fabrizio when he and Jack are trying to find their cabin.

Irish Mother

Irish Mother

Played By: Jenette Goldstein

An Irish woman traveling with her two young children.

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• Face Death with Dignity: After realizing they're not getting off the ship, the mother takes her children back to their cabin and tucks them in to the Irish story of Tír na nÓg.
• Going Down with the Ship: She initially reassures her children that it will soon be their turn to go to the lifeboats, but eventually she realizes they're not getting off the ship. All three drown in their cabin.
• No Name Given: Neither the mother nor her children are named.

Cal's Crying Girl

Cal's Crying Girl

Played By: Allison & Amber Waddell

A young steerage girl who Cal finds by an electric winch during the final stages of the sinking. He uses her to gain access to Collapsible A.

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• Chekhov's Gunman: In a deleted scene in which Jack and Rose make it to Scotland Road after they tell a steward to shut up about the broken door, she can be seen with her large family as they try to head to the boat deck.
• I Want My Mommy!: She's crying for her mother when Cal finds her.
• Improbable Infant Survival: Of all the children that we see in the film, she is the only one who survives despite being in Collapsible A, which was partially flooded by the final plunge. While roughly half of the children on board survived, most of the ones in third class perished.
• Living MacGuffin: Cal initially sees her before trying to invoke his bribe to Murdoch to get off the ship. But when Murdoch throws his money back at him and then kills himself, Cal grabs the girl and uses her as his ticket to boarding the collapsible. He immediately pawns her off to someone else once they're in.
  Cal: Please! I'm all she has in the world!
• No Name Given: Her name is never revealed.
• Oh, Crap!: Her eyes widen in absolute terror when the water hits the boat deck and is about to wash Collapsible A away.
• Sole Survivor: She's implied to be the only member of her family to survive the sinking.

First Class Woman

First Class Woman

Played By: Alexandra Boyd

A lady in First Class who doesn’t realise the seriousness of the situation.

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• Black Comedy: Her one prominent scene has shades of this, as she’s completely unaware of all the chaos around her.
• Hate Sink: Very minor, but she embodies the worst aspects of First-Class women during the sinking. Viewers are likely to Facepalm at her foolishness. Her stupidity is Truth in Television, as many people remained unaware or confident that the sinking wasn’t that serious until the ship had gone under.
• It's All About Me: She asks Lightoller to stop the entire evacuation just so she can get something from her room.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Receives a short but sharp one from Lightoller, who rudely throws her into the boat and tells her to “Sit down!”.
• Recurring Extra: Aside from her brief scene with Lightoller, she shares a scene with Andrews who urges her to evacuate as quickly as she can. She contemplates before going back into her room.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: She seems oblivious to the danger, which might be forgiven if it weren’t for the fact that she misses a lot of obvious red flags.
• Running Gag: A Freeze-Frame Bonus shows her ignoring Andrews's warnings in a scene that takes place before her prominent scene.
• Skewed Priorities: Whatever it was she needed from her room, it couldn’t have been more important than her own life.
• Too Dumb to Live: While she wasn't the only person underestimating the whole situation, she was given warnings by Mr. Andrews himself as well as a steward, who both urge her to get to the boats as quickly as possible. She also seems oblivious to the chaos on deck, which should’ve made her realise that something was seriously wrong.
  • Subverted when ends up being one of only a handful of people to survive.
• Upper-Class Twit: She's a first-class passenger who, despite receiving multiple warnings, refuses to take the whole situation that seriously.

Slovakian Father and Son

Slovakian Father and Son

Played By: Martin Hart and Seth Adkins

A Slovak man from Austria-Hungary traveling with his young son.

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• Going Down with the Ship: The two perish when a door bursts open and sends water down the corridor, carrying them away to their deaths.
• I Want My Mommy!: The boy is crying for his father while waiting for him in the hallway.
• Language Barrier: The father yells at Jack and Rose in Slovak for taking his son, and doesn't understand their warnings when he runs back towards a door that's about to burst open.
• Missing Mom: It's unknown if the father has a wife and whether she was on the ship with him and his son, and if she was, whether she survived or not.
• No Name Given: They aren't named in the film.
• Papa Wolf: Downplayed. The father yells at Jack and Rose for taking his son, even though he had left him for who knows how long until they found him.
• Too Dumb to Live: Language barrier aside, the father doesn't seem to realize just how close the hallway is to flooding, and so runs back to get his luggage when the door explodes.

Ruth's Personal Maid

Ruth's Personal Maid

Played By: N/A

A woman who serves Ruth, much like how Trudy serves Rose.

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• Death by Adaptation: Like Trudy, her death in the sinking clashes with the fact that all of the women servants in first class survived.
• Going Down with the Ship: She and Trudy remain on the ship after Ruth tells them to turn on the heater, evidently unaware that she had left in a lifeboat.
• Living Prop: She only appears in the background for much of the film.
• No Name Given: She is never named in the film.
• Satellite Character: She is only prominently featured when Ruth orders her and Trudy to turn the heaters on in the suite and prepare a cup of tea.

Sven and Olaf

Sven and Olaf Gunderson

Played By: Dan Pettersson and Bjørn Olsen

Two Swedish brothers who lose their tickets aboard Titanic to Jack and Fabrizio.

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• Bar Brawl: Subverted. After losing, Olaf grabs Jack and looks like he's about to punch him. Then he punches Sven instead.
• Hot-Blooded: Even before they lose the game, Olaf looks ready to punch someone.
• Life Saving Misfortune: Given the low survival rates for third-class men, it's likely that they would have perished in the disaster, especially seeing as neither Jack or Fabrizio survive.
• Never My Fault: In the script, there is dialogue indicating that Sven bet the tickets because Olaf already lost all their money.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Sven bets their tickets and loses them, allowing Jack and Fabrizio to board the ship.

Lucy

Lucy

Played By: N/A

A stewardess serving the First-Class sections of the Titanic.

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• Bit Character: Frequently appears in the background (including in Rose's Titanic heaven/dream scene), but has only one line and no characterization. Her only notable role is being used to show that Mr. Andrews encouraged crewmembers to wear their lifebelts and set a good example for the passengers.
• Canon Foreigner: Possibly; while there was a stewardess named Lucy on board the Titanic, it's not confirmed whether she and this character are one and the same.
• Hufflepuff House: Lucy is the only prominently featured female Titanic crewmember we come across in the film; possibly justified by the fact that there were only 23 of them on board (compared to 863 male crewmembers).
• Uncertain Doom: While only three of the female crew perished, it's not shown if Lucy is one of them.

Barnes

Steward Barnes

Played By: Oliver Page

A first class steward who is assigned to Cal and Rose's cabin.

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• All There in the Manual: His name is listed in the subtitles and credits, but isn't mentioned in the film.
• Bit Character: He only briefly appears after the iceberg, being called in to arrest Jack and then instructs Cal and Rose to put their life jackets on.
• Canon Foreigner: There were three crewmembers named Barnes, but two were stokers and one was an assistant baker. All of them perished.
• Killed Offscreen: None of the first class bedroom stewards survived, making it likely Barnes goes down with the ship.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Downplayed, but at the moment he arrives to tell the Hockley party to put their life jackets on, Cal had just hit Rose and would have no doubt hurt her more.

Historical characters

RMS Titanic

The Ship of Dreams herself. Newly completed to serve as the crown jewel of the White Star Line, Titanic departs Southampton with 2200 people on board.

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• As Himself: The opening scenes with Brock's expedition were filmed at the actual Titanic wreck site, with scale models for only a handful of shots such as both MIR submersibles passing over the bow.
• Character Death: In so much as ascribing "character traits" to an inanimate object, the filmmakers made sure that the second half of the film lingers on her slow descent to the bottom of the ocean. At several points, the sound design (particularly when the lights go out for the last time and when the ship snaps) make it sound as though the ship is groaning in despair.
• Cool Ship: As Ismay says, she was the largest moving object constructed by man in history at that time. Shipbuilding was in a race at the time to build larger, faster, more luxurious vessels, and the greater size of Titanic, though she didn't have the speed of the Lusitania-class liners, made her more comfortable in heavy seas than her Cunarder rivals. Changes to the construction plans during building made her 1,500 tons larger than her sister ship, Olympic, and her younger sister, Britannic, driven by changes necessitated by the loss of Titanic, would be larger still (though eclipsed by the time of her launch by Hamburg-America Lines' Imperator-class liners).
• Half the Man He Used to Be: When the ship is lifted off the water, the stern gives away from the weight, and she breaks in half.
• Hufflepuff House: The Second Class is only referenced once in the film, with its only members that we see being Father Byles and the ship's orchestra. This is common among films about Titanic as Second Class generally lacks the heroism of the crew, the elegance of First Class, or the romanticism of steerage.
• No OSHA Compliance: Zig-Zagged. Rose does point out how the ship doesn't actually have enough lifeboats for everyone aboard, which results in many of the deaths in the sinking. ^note In reality, Titanic was fully compliant with British maritime safety regulations of the time, which hadn't kept up with the increased size in shipbuilding. After the disaster, legislation was passed in both America and Britain that required lifeboats for all on board, as well as mandating lifeboat drills and constant radio communications.
• Not So Invincible After All: The first half of the film is spent hyping up how the ship itself is state-of-the-art, has failsafes within it and could easily dominate any other known ship in operation at the time. The second half of the film proves to not be the case, rendering everyone at an executive level who took part in the ship's creation mournfully reflecting on its rapidly-failing condition.
• Scenery Porn: The elegance of the First Class staterooms, the Grand Staircase, and other areas is affectionately put on display for all to see.
• Technology Porn: Scenes in the engine room and the wireless room lovingly show the state of steam-powered technology in 1912.

Crew of the RMS Titanic

Captain Smith

Captain Edward John Smith

Played By: Bernard Hill

"Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch. Let's stretch her legs."

Captain of the Titanic. White Star Line's favorite officer and nicknamed "The Millionaire's Captain."

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: In real life, it was Captain Smith who was concerned about performance, and wanted to get to New York as soon as possible, and didn't think the Titanic didn't need any more lifeboats. Most of those traits were given to Ismay. It shows when he appears in Rose's dream along with others who died on the Titanic. Lewis does allude to his performance flaw (as in the Titanic's).
• Big Good: Captain of the ship and a very gregarious character.
• Cool Old Guy: Good-natured, respected and loved by his men, and well-loved by others. Truth in Television, the real Captain Smith was highly regarded by his crew and passengers and got along especially well with Americans and continental Europeans because he did not espouse the jingoistic "God is an Englishman" attitude so popular in Edwardian Britain.
• Deadpan Snarker: "Well I believe you may get your headlines, Mr. Ismay" to Bruce Ismay upon learning the ship will sink.
• Despair Event Horizon: Smith finally goes over it shortly before the plunge begins. He watches as Lightoller attempts to right Collapsible B and then sees water starting to come up the boat deck. A woman with a baby asks him where to go, and he realizes just how many people are about to die. He even brushes off a crewman who offers him his own lifejacket.
• Face Death with Dignity: He decides to meet his fate in the ship's pilothouse at the wheel.
• Going Down with the Ship: As the captain, he locks himself in the wheelhouse and drowns when it floods. Since not everyone would make it off, his death as the ultimate command on board was a given.
• Heroic BSoD: When he realizes how many people are going to die. You can see it clearly begin once Bride informs him that Carpathia will be there in four hours, well after the ship will have sunk.
  • On the commentary, Bernard Hill mentions that Smith was essentially "the PR Captain." He had taken out all of White Star's new ships, but he never had a major crisis under his command. Once he realized just how many people were going to die, he just shut down.
• Oh, Crap!: He rushes onto the bridge immediately after the collision and instantly knows that something is seriously wrong.
• Retirony: Ismay mentions that Titanic is Smith's last command before retirement.
• This Is Gonna Suck: After being told by Bride that Carpathia will arrive long after the ship will have sunk, Smith looks off into the distance, trying to grasp the enormity of what's about to happen.

Chief Officer Wilde

Chief Officer Henry Wilde

Played By: Mark Lindsay Chapman

Executive officer of Titanic.

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• Big "NO!": Cries out "No, Will!" right before Murdoch kills himself.
• Chekhov's Gun: Uses a whistle repeatedly throughout the sinking as a means of coordination. It ends up saving Rose's life, though Wilde doesn't make it.
• Determinator: He fights like all hell to get the last lifeboat afloat, and in his last minutes after the final plunge desperately whistles for help.
• Going Down with the Ship: He survives the ship sinking from under his feet, but the ice-cold water still claims his life; Wilde's one of the 1,500 victims.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Wilde immediately believes Cal, who’s dressed in a tuxedo, to be the father of the little girl he’s holding, despite the little girl wearing steerage clothing and looking absolutely nothing like Cal (different hair collur). Not to mention the fact that he was earlier by himself arguing with Murdoch (though he could have missed that interaction due to the chaos).
  • Earlier, he completely misreads the room when Andrews tells the captain the ship is sinking as he later is seen treating the evacuation as an exercise. He also fails to notice Andrews’ obvious frustration and worry as he asks Wilde why the passengers are not on deck.
• Kill It with Ice: Wilde is seen in the ocean after the ship sinks desperately blowing his whistle to get the boats back. He freezes to death in the water before Lowe returns, but Rose uses his whistle to get their attention and save her life.
• Number Two: As the Chief Officer, he’s this to Captain Smith.
• Pet the Dog: Allows Cal to enter a lifeboat, despite the ‘women and children only’ rule being in full effect.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: See Pet the Dog.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears briefly as a relatively minor character who helps the other officers in evacuating the ship, but he is the officer who allows Cal to escape and his whistle motivates Lowe to return to look for survivors. Finally, his whistle is what leads to Rose attracting Lowe’s attention and being saved.

First Officer Murdoch

First Officer William Murdoch

Played By: Ewan Stewart

The officer of the watch on duty when Titanic hits the iceberg.

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• Death Glare: He sees Bruce Ismay climb into one of the lifeboats and glares at him as the boat is lowered into the water.
• Driven to Suicide: After shooting Tommy, he salutes Wilde and turns the gun on himself in regret. How the real Will Murdoch died is anyone's guess (Second Officer Lightoller stated he saw Murdoch crushed by a funnel), but he is one of the crewmembers who died on the ship that night.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Taking bribes (albeit unwittingly and later rejecting it), panicking and shooting Tommy, committing suicide immediately afterwards...it's little wonder that the Murdoch family was angry and threatened James Cameron with a lawsuit. The supposed shooting incident has never been conclusively corroborated. Fifth Officer Lowe is known to have fired two warning shots into the air at one point, and Second Officer Lightoller really did stop a panicked mob by pulling his Webley and threatening to shoot any man who rushed the lifeboats (with an empty pistol, no less). Three survivors claimed to have witnessed the shooting, but their accounts differ significantly from each other (one didn't mention the alleged suicide at all), and none of them had any idea who Murdoch was. Lightoller saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy a collapsible boat by himself (this normally required a dozen men) moments before the forward funnel collapsed on top of him. Local officials demanded the controversial scenes to be cut from further releases, so 20th Century Fox issued an apology and donated money for the schools in Murdoch's hometown.
• It Has Been an Honor: He salutes Chief Officer Wilde right before putting his gun to his head.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After he accidentally fatally shoots Tommy during the sinking. (This likely didn't happen in real life.)
• Not So Above It All: Watches Rose and Jack being affectionate from his perch with a wry smile and a chuckle.
• Oh, Crap!: When Fleet rings the warning bell, he turns towards the front, and eventually sees the iceberg approaching. This is his expression before he darts into the wheelhouse to order "hard to starboard" in panic.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: After initially taking Cal's bribe, he throws the money away when he and Cal next meet. Honestly, he never actually "accepted" the bribe to begin with. He looks more bewildered than anything when Cal forces a wad of bills in his pocket, obviously being under insane stress.
  Cal: We had a deal, damn you! (Murdoch throws the wad of money back in Cal's face to his utter disbelief)
  Murdoch: Your money can't save you any more than it can save me.
• This Is Gonna Suck: The tone in his voice when Captain Smith asks how many are on board, and he replies "2,200 souls."

Second Officer Lightoller

Second Officer Charles Lightoller

Played By: Jonny Phillips

The highest-ranking officer to survive the sinking.

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• Action Survivor: As the passengers start to panic and try to rush Lifeboat 14, Lightoller pulls out a .455 Webley revolver and tells them all to back off. He then turns to order Lowe to man the boat, revealing that he just bluffed the crowd with an unloaded revolver — which he immediately loads, just in case.
• Going Down with the Ship: In a way; he never boards a usable lifeboat, but he is one of the six people to be rescued from the water by way of hanging onto a capsized boat (Collapsible B), though he is not seen after the first funnel collapses. A deleted scene shows him standing on Collapsible B with nearly two dozen men, most of whom survived. Lightoller is the highest-ranking officer of the Titanic to survive the sinking; all three of the higher officers, Captain Smith, Chief Officer Wilde, and First Officer Murdoch, die in the sinking.
• Historical Villain Upgrade:
  • Not as bad as Murdoch, but he's depicted as somewhat jumpy and lowers several lifeboats hastily (and half-full) before Andrews chews him out. The real Lightoller tried desperately to get more people into the boats and only launched the half-empty ones when he absolutely had to. The boat he commanded was swamped and capsized by the collapse of the forward funnel; Lightoller put everyone on top of the capsized boat and huddled them together to prevent hypothermia, keeping them alive until Carpathia arrived.
  • A deleted scene shows Lightoller desperately trying to convince a group of passengers to board, but everyone shrugs it off and ignores him. By the end of the scene, no one has gotten into the lifeboat yet and Lightoller becomes impatient.
• Iconic Outfit: Lightoller wears a navy-blue turtleneck sweater just like the one he actually had on that night.
• It's Probably Nothing: He shrugs when Murdoch asks if they found the binoculars for the lookouts, replying that they haven't seen the set since they left Southampton.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he comes across as heavy-handed, such as when he threatens to shoot passengers "like dogs" when they try to rush a lifeboat, he is doing his utmost to save lives. His explanation to Thomas Andrews as to why the boats are being launched half-full is treated as him erring on the side of caution to ensure that people are able to get off the ship at all.
• Killed Offscreen: Lightoller died in 1952 at the age of 72.
• Nervous Wreck: Downplayed, but he is very jumpy, moreso then any other officer. He’s also the first to pull out his revolver and aim it at the passengers (albeit unloaded).
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: His survival along with over twenty men aboard the overturned Collapsible B was filmed, but ultimately cut.
• Oh, Crap!: After being chewed out by Thomas Andrews for lowering the boats half-full, Lightoller looks out at one of the boats he just launched, and realizes how many people are still on board.
  "Please. I need more women and children, please!"
• This Is Gonna Suck: Lightoller speaks with Captain Smith about how calm the sea is, noting with some trepidation that this is going to make spotting the icebergs much more difficult.

Third Officer Pitman

Third Officer Herbert Pitman

Played By: Kevin De La Noy

Junior officer who takes command of Lifeboat 5.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: The real Pitman had a mustache at the time of the sinking, but he is clean-shaven here.
• Creator Cameo: He was played by one of the film's production managers.
• Demoted to Extra: Both he and Boxhall barely have any screen time.
• The Voiceless: He's the only one of the ship's officers who doesn't get a line.

Fourth Officer Boxhall

Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall

Played By: Simon Crane

Junior officer who commands Lifeboat 2.

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• Demoted to Extra: He only has one line in the film.
• Killed Offscreen: Boxhall died in 1967. He was the last of the surviving officers.
• Oh, Crap!: As Titanic rises higher and higher out of the water, he yells for the people in his boat to row faster.
  "Bloody pull faster, and pull!"

Fifth Officer Lowe

Fifth Officer Harold Lowe

Played By: Ioan Gruffudd

Junior officer who is placed in charge of Lifeboat 14, and the only one to try to find survivors after the ship sinks. He's the one who saves Rose in the end.

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• The Cavalry Arrives Late: After offloading the women, Lowe is the only one to attempt a rescue with his lifeboat. However, by the time he returns, the sea is filled with frozen corpses. Despite this, he manages to rescue six, including Rose.
• Heroic BSoD: He goes through a brief one when he sees the frozen corpses of a woman and her baby. The script explicitly says that this is the worst moment of his life. He snaps out of it and becomes more determined to find any survivors.
• Honor Before Reason: He's torn when he has to separate couples while loading the boats.
• Hot-Blooded: Both in the film and in real life, and this personality of his also led him to return and rescue survivors. You see more of this personality in the deleted scenes including threatening Ismay when he panics and hampers his work.
• Nice Guy: In the extended Carpathia sequence, he personally hands Rose a cup of coffee after helping her on board.
• You Are in Command Now: Lightoller orders Lowe to take charge in Lifeboat 14.
• You Are Too Late: Says they waited too long upon seeing the endless sea of corpses.

Sixth Officer Moody

Sixth Officer James Moody

Played By: Edward Fletcher

Junior officer on the bridge when the ship hits the iceberg. He dies in the sinking.

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• Casual Danger Dialogue: He calmly thanks Fleet for informing him that there's an iceberg directly in front of the ship.
• Delegation Relay: He relays Murdoch's order for hard-a-starboard, even with Murdoch standing right next to him and shouting at the top of his lungs.
• Going Down with the Ship: He's the only junior officer who doesn't survive, though his death is never shown and you have to read up on the disaster to know he died.
• Oh, Crap!: He breaks into a run towards Murdoch after Fleet tells him there's an iceberg right ahead.
• Small Role, Big Impact: As he's closing the last gangway before departing Southampton, Jack and Fabrizio run up with their tickets. Moody lets them aboard, just taking their word that they've been checked for lice.

Quartermaster Hichens

Quartermaster Robert Hichens

Played By: Paul Brightwell

One of the quartermasters, he's the sailor at the wheel when Fleet and Lee spot the iceberg and is the one to turn it "hard to starboard" and "hard to port". He's also the only one on the bridge during the iceberg strike to survive, via Boat 6, the same one Molly, Fleet, and Ruth leave in.

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• Big "SHUT UP!": Gives one to Molly Brown when she tries to convince the boat to return and rescue survivors.
• Dirty Coward: Molly (and James Cameron by extension) accuse him of being this. He seems genuinely scared of being sucked down by the ship or passengers.
• Hate Sink: Out of all the surviving White Star employees who are not Bruce Ismay and the other characters apart from Hockley, Hichens is the most dislikable person who does not go down with the ship. His conduct in the sinking has made him a popular target of derision in multiple Titanic projects (it doesn't help that the Titanic struck the iceberg under his control of the wheel, though there wasn't much that could be done). At least in this film, Ismay is helpful regarding a few things and decently charming.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: More like Adaptational Jerkass, but several of the insults he yells at Molly were said by other crewmembers, most notable is the "Shut that hole in your face!" line. In real life, Molly was the one who threatened to throw him out when he acted too selfishly.
• Jerkass: The only jerkass scene of his that's in the final cut is him shouting Molly down after she tries to rally the boat to return for survivors, threatening to toss her overboard. The deleted scenes show him willfully ignoring a megaphone order from Captain Smith to return to Titanic to retrieve more passengers.
• Jerkass Has a Point: The reason he states for not going back for more passengers was that the Titanic would have a suction pull upon going down and then the thrashing people in the water could very well swamp the boat in their attempts to get in, both of which could sink the lifeboat as well and kill all aboard.
• Lack of Empathy: Rudely tells Molly that they need to think about their own lives rather than those on the sinking ship. Later, he makes a few nasty remarks about the people in the water, some of whom are friends and relatives of those in the lifeboat.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In Real Life, Molly and the other occupants of Lifeboat 6 got so fed up with Hitchens, that she threatened to toss him overboard.
• Lean and Mean: He's very thin and a massive Jerkass. In real life, he was more stocky.
• You Are in Command Now: He's put in command of Lifeboat 6.

Frederick Barrett

Frederick Barrett

Played By: Derek Lea

Leading Fireman in Boiler Room 6.

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• Action Survivor: He survives when the boiler room is breached and makes it to Lifeboat 13, which is nearly crushed after drifting under the oncoming Lifeboat 15. You can see him feverishly cutting the lines for the boat to get away in time. In Real Life, Barrett was also the primary testimony for what had gone on in Titanic's boiler and engine rooms after the collision, having stayed at his post until the bulkheads broke and made further stoking impossible.
• Cigarette of Anxiety: Barrett can be seen having a cigarette the next morning on Carpathia.
• The Men First: He waits until all the stokers get under the closing watertight door before escaping himself (unfortunately, one guy doesn't get out in time, but there were ladders that allowed stranded firemen to safely bypass the watertight doors).
• Oh, Crap!: Much like Bell, he knows that a red warning light turning on out of the blue in the middle of the night probably means they're in danger of hitting something and instantly starts shouting orders.
• 13 Is Unlucky: He does survive the sinking, but leaves on Boat 13, which got caught in the pumps and nearly got crushed by another lifeboat.

Jack Phillips and Harold Bride

Jack Phillips and Harold Bride

Played By: Gregory Cooke and Craig Kelly

The ship's wireless operators.

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• Action Survivor: In several deleted scenes, Bride is shown onboard Collapsible B, almost slipping off before Gracie catches him. He and Gracie then try to keep his legs warm, but while onboard the Carpathia, he's seen being carried by two sailors. The real Harold Bride suffered from frostbite after the disaster. He had to be carried off of the Carpathia.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In real life, Phillips's reply to Cyril Evans was entirely professional, with no intent of rudeness nor was it taken that way. In the deleted scene, his reply to Evans is so rude it leads to Evans shutting down the radio, preventing them from communicating.
• All There in the Manual: While they do appear in the film, most of the vital role that Phillips played in the disaster was cut. The scenes show him telling the Californian to shut up, using SOS as his distress call, and continuing to send the distress call even when the ship is about to go under.
• Bearer of Bad News: Bride reports to Captain Smith that the closest ship, Carpathia, will arrive in four hours, long after the ship will have sunk.
• Cassandra Truth: Phillips tells the operator on the Californian, Cyril Evans, to sod off, as he's trying to clear a large backlog of messages. That results in crucial information about the ice field not making it to the bridge, and Evans to shut down for the night, ensuring that the closest ship does not hear Titanic's imminent distress signal.
• Communications Officer: Both of them, as they're the ship's wireless operators, and the only way of communication to the outside world.
• Gallows Humor: In a deleted scene, after Smith tells them the ship is sinking, Bride suggests to Phillips that they try the new distress call "SOS." After all, as Bride says, it may be their only chance to use it.
• Going Down with the Ship: Bride survives, but Phillips is one of the lives lost.
• Honor Before Reason: In a deleted scene, Phillips continues to broadcast the distress call until the water hits the boat deck, even after their wireless power has failed. He has to be dragged from the room by Bride.
• Killed Offscreen: While the circumstances of his death are unclear, Phillips didn't survive the night.
• Oh, Crap!: When Smith tells them the ship is "going down by the head". Phillips: "Blimey".
• Poor Communication Kills: Because Phillips and Bride were employees of the Marconi Company and technically not members of the ship's crew, their primary concern was sending passenger messages and not "weather reports." This caused the two to ignore a number of ice warnings, thereby making the officers unaware of the true extent of the ice field that Titanic was heading towards. While not mentioned in the film or the deleted scenes, Phillips ignored a warning from the steamer Mesaba that was the last chance to avert disaster.
• Those Two Guys: Rarely seen apart, with a heavy rapport between the both of them.
  Bride: (reading a message) Look at this one. He wants his private train to meet him. La-di-da. We'll be up all bloody night on this lot.
  Phillips: You'll be up all bloody night on that lot.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Phillips. When the Californian tries to warn them about the ice field that Titanic is about to steam into, Phillips rudely tells them to shut up, causing their operator to power down for the night.
  • In real life, the wireless set had broken down the previous day. Ignoring their instructions to leave it for a Marconi technician to repair it in New York, they fixed it themselves and were trying to clear a large backlog of messages that had accumulated. This is referenced when Bride mentions that they'll be up all night trying to send all the messages. Due to their close proximity, the signal of the Californian was so strong that it was interfering with Titanic's connection to the mainland relay station at Cape Race, leading to Phillips's rude rebuttal, and in an inversion of this trope the simple fact that they did fix it is likely the sole reason anyone survived that night all.

Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee

Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee

Played By: Scott G. Andersen and Martin East

"Iceberg, right ahead!"

The ship's lookouts who sight the iceberg.

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• Historical Villain Upgrade: While not as bad as Murdoch's depiction, the film shows Fleet and Lee watching Jack and Rose make out below them, essentially neglecting their duty and thus failing to spot the iceberg for a few crucial seconds.
• Informed Ability: In-universe. Fleet tells Lee that he can smell ice when it's near. Lee calls him out on this later after they sideswipe the iceberg, which sinks the ship, though both survived (Lee died the next year, however; he's the first surviving crewmember to die post-April 1912).
• Killed Offscreen: Lee died from pneumonia a year after the sinking, and Fleet took his own life in 1965.
• Oh, Crap!: The first of many from the ship's crew. After turning back to their job from watching Jack and Rose make out below them (which also prompted Murdoch to turn away and snicker), they see the iceberg with this expression. Cue Fleet ringing the bell and telephoning the bridge (it also gets Murdoch to turn back towards the front of the ship to see the iceberg himself).
• P.O.V. Cam: Their first view of the iceberg is shown with this.
• Precision F-Strike: Fleet utters one of two uses of the word "Fuck" in the film, albeit the British variant. He exclaims "Oh, bugger me!" upon seeing the iceberg.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: While both survived (along with the other four lookouts who were off duty and are not seen in the film), Reginald Lee died from pneumonia the very next year, becoming the first Titanic officer who survived the sinking to die. Fleet suffered from depression his whole life due to his sense of guilt and committed suicide after his wife died and was evicted.
• Those Two Guys: Rarely seen apart and offer a bit of comedic commentary. In the script, they're on duty while Jack and Rose are on the bow, and lament that they don't have binoculars for a closer look.

Joseph Bell

Joseph Bell

Played By: Terry Forrestal

Chief Engineering Officer of Titanic.

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• Cool Old Guy: In his early 50s, and is chief engineer of the largest steamship in the world.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He and his men are trapped in the dark bowels of the ship once the power goes out; and then the ship begins to break up.
• The Determinator: Succeeds in keeping the power on right up to the ship's breakup, even as the breakers around him inevitably fail.
• The Engineer: He and his crew keep the ship running and rarely venture outside the engine room, even ensuring the survival of the ship and its passengers despite the risk to their lives.
• Going Down with the Ship: He remains on board with his engineering crew to man the breakers so the ship can have power for as long as possible. He succeeds, but the breakers blow and electrocute one of his men, and anyone else left plus him die when the ship goes under seconds later.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Stays at his post along with all the engineers and electricians to ensure that Titanic has power (and therefore light and distress signals) for as long as possible.
• Oh, Crap!: He is shown preparing some soup for the other engineers when suddenly the engine room telegraph orders full astern. He does a Double Take before realizing something is seriously wrong.

Thomas King

Thomas King

Played By: Ron Donachie

Master-at-arms.

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• Character Death: Loses his grip and falls from the railing.
• Going Down with the Ship: Though he's only seen in a few scenes and never after he locks Jack in his office, King is one of the 1,500 passengers who died on the Titanic.
  • He's actually shown next to the Dahl family, clinging onto the railing until he loses his grip and falls into a crowd of passengers.
• Nice Guy: He complements Jack's drawings and helps the Dahl family climb to the railing before falling himself.
• No Name Given: He isn't identified by name in the credits. However, there were two masters-at-arms aboard the Titanic in real life, Joseph Bailey and Thomas King. Given that Bailey survived the sinking, that would make the one depicted in the film King.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Not really a villain, but he tries to apprehend Jack because it's his job. He does in fact say that Jack's drawings are rather good. He actually comes off as a pretty decent guy and doesn't treat Jack any more badly than the job requires.

Charles Joughin

Charles Joughin

Played By: Liam Tuohy

The gourmet chef and chief baker on Titanic. He was on the sinking ship's stern as it went down, swam to the overturned Collapsible Lifeboat B, and lived to tell the tale. He encounters Jack and Rose during the final moments of the vessel's sinking.

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• Acrofatic: Despite being somewhat overweight, Joughin is able to climb up the stern to the poop deck's railing and maintain his balance and the ship plunges into the ocean. Additionally, he manages to keep moving about in the water, keeping off the effects of hypothermia, until he is able to be rescued.
• Action Survivor: The final person still alive when the Titanic sunk completely to "leave" the ship (he gets forced off of it when it goes under), and he survives the night on the ocean and is one of the few men not to really be shamed for surviving.
• The Alcoholic: Joughin is a drinker, and all scenes of him in the film have him plastered, but still functional, including helping Rose up and climbing over the stern railing.
• Almighty Janitor: Truth in Television. As Joughin was the survivor who experienced the sinking from the greatest vantage point (being the last person to "exit" the ship), his testimony was crucial during the subsequent trials in the British Inquiry. In a deleted scene, he is shown throwing deck chairs into the water for swimmers.
• Functional Addict: Despite carrying a whiskey flask around with him, he is still able to prepare fine dining for the passengers. On top of that, he assists in helping the women and children evacuate the sinking ship, including sacrificing his seat in a lifeboat (he also sent bread rations on the lifeboats). With how he survived, it's possible that his drinking, ironically, is what saved him from freezing to death in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Going Down with the Ship: Literally; Joughin is technically the final Titanic member to leave the ship "alive" (he's with Jack and Rose on the stern in the final plunge). He's also one of the 6 rescued from the water, ironically because of his drinking.
  • Although not shown in the film in detail the real Joughin nearly decided to do this literally. Giving up his spot on a lifeboat and retiring to his cabin to drink and await the ship sinking figuring he was doomed. After a few drinks however he changed his mind and while still giving up his lifeboat seat decided to try to take his chances on deck. And he managed to survive in the water long enough to get rescued.
• Hero of Another Story: In the real-life version of the events, he spent time shepherding his fellow staff to put bread and other provisions in the lifeboats, correctly presuming that the survivors would need food as they waited for rescue, nevermind throwing chairs and other flotation devices to survivors in the water (in a deleted scene). He's also seen keeping up with Jack and Rose (usually off to the side of the screen) in the final minutes of the ship being above water, and is shown climbing up the siderail of the stern as the ship lifts into the air.
• Heroic Bystander: How he comes across in the final film. Just an ordinary guy who saves Rose and an unnamed passenger from drowning by pulling them up.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: The real-life Joughlin testified in an inquiry that he spent a good portion of the time the ship was sinking getting drunk in his cabin, a portrayal which the film fleetingly references (though doesn't make explicit in the theatrical cut).
  • In a deleted scene, he's shown pulling out a small bottle of whisky and downing the whole thing just as Cal and Lovejoy march past him.
  • After seeing someone fall off the stern and hit the starboard propeller, Joughlin (now one of the scant few survivors on the very top of the sinking ship) gets out his hip flask and takes a swig.
• Liquid Courage: Presumably, he takes all his alcohol to steel his nerves. In real life, this actually caused him to decide to try to make his best attempt to live when he'd resigned himself to dying after giving his lifeboat seat up.
• Nice Guy:
  • He is courteous to Rose when she falls in her and Jack's retreat to the back of the ship. He also is seen pulling a passenger climbing on the railings up on top with him despite at that point being literally seconds away from being submerged in the water.
  • What's more, in real life, he had a spot reserved for him on a lifeboat. He gave it up so someone else could board in his place.
• Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction after watching an unknown man fall off the stern and hit the propeller on the way down and moments later watching a woman fall to her death, hitting the cargo cranes on the way down. Rose has the same reaction (the original script had dialogue where he told Rose, "Hell of a night, isn't it?").

John Hutchinson

John Hutchinson

Played By: Richard Ashton

The ship's carpenter. He helps inspect the damage to the ship after the iceberg collision.

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• All There in the Manual: His name and role is only revealed in the credits and subtitles.
• Bearer of Bad News: He inspects the damage in the forward compartments and reports to Captain Smith.
• Going Down with the Ship: He doesn't appear after Andrews gives the damage report, but he died in the sinking.
• No Name Given: Hutchinson isn't named in the film. He's named in the credits and subtitles.

Thomas McCawley

Thomas McCawley

Played By: Brian McDermott

The ship's gym instructor.

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• All There in the Manual: He only appears in two scenes which were cut from the film.
• Gallows Humor: He refuses to put on a life jacket because it will "impede his stroke." Astor quips back that since they are 700 miles from shore, he certainly wouldn't want anything to impede his stroke.
• Going Down with the Ship: He perished in the sinking, not that wearing a life jacket would have helped him.
• Upper-Class Twit: Whilst he isn't a wealthy passenger, he does mingle with them during the sinking, and looks genuinely surprised when told that swimming won't be enough to save him.

William John Kearney

William John Kearney

Played By: Sean Nepita

A lift attendant in First Class.

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• Going Down with the Ship: None of the lift stewards survived the sinking.
• Killed Offscreen: He is never seen again after Rose makes him take her to E Deck, but he is among the perished.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: He is holding off passengers who want to use the elevator when Rose comes up to him. He quickly obliges once she makes it clear she's going down no matter what.
  Kearney: I'm sorry, Miss, but the lifts are closed.
  Rose: (shoves him into the corner) I'm through being polite, God damn it! Now take me down!
• Oh, Crap!: He starts screaming when they get to the flooded E Deck.
  "JESUS CHRIST!!! I'm going back up!"
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In-Universe. He speaks in a posh English accent when telling passengers that the lifts are closed. However, when they reach the water on E Deck, he starts screaming with an Irish accent, showing that he had been faking it.
• Spell My Name With An S: His name was actually spelled "Carney."

Passengers of the RMS Titanic

Thomas Andrews

Thomas Andrews

Played By: Victor Garber

"Sleep soundly, young Rose, for I have built you a good ship, strong and true, she's all the lifeboats you need."

Naval architect and Master Shipwright of Harland & Wolff Co. who oversaw the design and construction of Titanic. He was on board to assess the general performance of the ship and note any changes that were needed.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: Like Molly Brown, Andrews can't help but stifle a laugh as Rose asks Bruce Ismay if he's familiar with Dr. Freud's theories about "the male preoccupation with size."
• Brutal Honesty: He does not make light of the fact that the Titanic is beyond saving once he has assessed the damage done to his vessel. Even as Mr. Ismay and others around him scoff at the suggestion, Andrews presses everyone to get off by every means necessary. When he privately explains the situation to Rose, he emphasizes their previous conversation about the lifeboats and tells her to get in one as soon as possible.
• Determinator: True to the actions of the real man, Andrews desperately urges as many people as he can into the lifeboats, at one point angrily chewing out Lightoller for launching his boats at barely half their capacity.
• Going Down with the Ship: Ultimately, he remains onboard of his own volition and, when he last meets Jack and Rose in the Smoking Room, hands his lifejacket to Rose. He's last seen adjusting the time on a clock on the mantle (about 2:14, 6 minutes before sinking), and Andrews both in the film and in real life is one of the passengers who died on the Titanic.
• Ignored Expert: During their tour of the ship, Andrews tells Rose that he designed the boat deck to be able to fit an extra row of lifeboats, but he was overruled because it would "make the deck look cluttered."
• It's All My Fault: He takes responsibility for the ship sinking.
  "I'm sorry I didn't build you a stronger ship, Rose."
• Nice Guy: Probably the nicest guy on the ship. He even greets Jack with a smile while the latter is trying to get into First Class to speak with Rose. It's likely he sympathizes with Jack on some level.
• Oh, Crap!: On April 14, he's in his cabin looking over the ship's blueprints and his own notes on her performance, when he starts to feel a vibration in the table and sees the chandelier shaking. The look on his face shows he knows something has happened. In actuality, he didn't realize anything was wrong until Captain Smith sent for him.
• Parental Substitute: Rose has a much better relationship with Andrews than her own mother. It's pretty apparent that Rose sees him this way, as he essentially hands her off to Jack during the ending dream sequence.
• The Perfectionist: He is shown making notes about various cosmetic improvements needed to the ship. The last thing we see him do is adjust the time on a clock in the First Class smoking room.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Rose comes to him to find Jack after he's put under arrest. Despite insisting she get in a boat, Andrews tells her where to go upon seeing how adamant she is. He is also seen telling several maids and stewardesses to get to the boats, and later gives Rose his life jacket.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Andrews calls out Officer Charles Lightoller for lowering lifeboats that are nowhere near full when there are still hundreds onboard the sinking ship.
  Thomas Andrews: Mr. Lightoller, why are the boats being launched half full?
  Second Officer Lightoller: Not now, Mr. Andrews.
  Thomas Andrews: Look, twenty or so in a boat built for sixty-five? And I saw one boat with only twelve. Twelve!
  Second Officer Lightoller: [clearly fumbling for an excuse] Well, we weren't sure of the weight, Mr. Andrews. These boats may buckle.
  Thomas Andrews: Rubbish! They were tested in Belfast with the weight of 70 men! Now, fill these boats, Mr. Lightoller, for God's sake, man!

John Jacob Astor IV

John Jacob Astor IV

Played By: Eric Braeden

The richest man on board.

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• Face Death with Dignity: At the top of the Grand Staircase, he takes hold of a support beam and waits for the end.
• Gentleman Snarker: In a deleted scene, the gym instructor Thomas McCawley says he won't put on a lifejacket, because it will impede his stroke. Astor quips, "Right you are. It is 700 miles to shore, so you wouldn't want to have anything to impede your stroke."
• Going Down with the Ship: In addition to being the richest man to have sailed on the Titanic, he's one of the 1500+ casualties; he lets his wife get onboard a boat, but he's last seen in the grand staircase when the lighting at the top shatters and water begins pouring in. In a deleted scene, he tells Guggenheim that he's looking for his dog, so he won't die alone.
• It Has Been an Honor: He shakes hands with Guggenheim once it's clear neither of them are going to survive.
• May–December Romance: He was 47 at the time of the disaster and Rose points out that his wife Madeline is her age.
• Money Is Not Power: Despite being the richest man on the ship, he still dies in the disaster.
• Nice Guy: He's very polite and asks Jack if he's related to the Boston Dawsons.
• The Stoic: During the sinking, Astor remains calm and shows very little emotion, despite clearly being tense. Best shown when he isn’t fazed by the glass dome shattering behind him.

Madeline Astor

Madeline Astor

Played By: Charlotte Chatton

Astor's much-younger wife.

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• My Secret Pregnancy: Rose points out to Jack that Madeline is trying to hide her stomach at dinner, but the fact that Rose knows to look for it suggests Madeline's attempts to keep it secret aren't working.
• Pet the Dog: She is very friendly with Jack when Rose introduces him to her. Though this could be because she is unaware of his social standing.
• The Quiet One: She only has one line in the film, when she greets Jack at dinner.
• Someone to Remember Him By: She is already pregnant during the disaster and would give birth to a son, John Jacob Astor VI, four months later.

Molly Brown

Molly Brown

"Hey, Sonny, you gut us all trussed up, now we're all out here cooling our heels...I doubt anyone knows what the hell's going on!"

Played By: Kathy Bates

A socialite whom Rose's mother calls "new money," as her husband had recently struck gold.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: Like Thomas Andrews, Molly can't help but stifle a laugh as Rose asks Bruce Ismay if he's familiar with Dr. Freud's theories about "the male preoccupation with size."
• Big Fun: The opinions of her haughty socialite peers aside, the large proportioned Molly is a very gregarious, friendly person and very pleasant to be around.
• Cool Old Lady: Middle aged, but still.
  • Helps with Rose and Jack's secret flirtations, and tells Jack how to properly use the massive set of cutlery at dinner.
  • As in any other portrayal of the sinking, Molly is presented as someone who lives in the First Class but empathizes with the Third Class.
• Death Glare: Gives her "friend" Ruth DeWitt Bukater a good one when she continues to give Jack a hard time at the dinner.
• Fiery Redhead: Very fiery auburn hair, loud, friendly, and doesn't take any crap from anyone.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: To Ruth and the other first-class women who try to avoid her. Granted in that Molly is a Nouveau Riche American and doesn’t conform to their ideology or standards.
  Countess: Look, here comes that vulgar Brown woman.
  Ruth: Quickly, get up before she sits with us.
• Honor Before Reason: Tries to get her lifeboat to go back and pick up survivors, but the crew dispenses with this notion as the boat would be swamped and sunk by the panicky desperate horde.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Jack.
• Killed Offscreen: Dies of a brain tumor 6 months after the sinking's 20th anniversary.
• Nouveau Riche: Old Rose's narration mentions that the other First Class women looked down on Molly for being "new money". She's certainly more outgoing and outspoken than the other women, but the film doesn't present this as a negative trait of hers.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her real name is Margaret Brown. In reality, she was nicknamed "Maggie."
• Token Good Teammate: Along with Rose, she is one of the few decent upper class passengers that refused to discriminate against the lower class. The fact that she was once a member of the lower class herself isn’t even brought up in the film.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out the crew for sitting in the lifeboats and refusing to go back to help the drowning passengers, but she's shot down when it's pointed out there are just too many of them.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: In another type of film, her rallying cry to go back and rescue survivors would have been met with overwhelming approval. But as even trying to do so would have likely resulted in the deaths of not only the rescuees but also the rescuers, this does not happen.

Thomas Byles

Thomas Byles

Played By: James Lancaster

A British Catholic priest, who remained behind on the Titanic of his own volition and is seen towards the end of the sinking giving a final sermon and reciting Revelation 21:4.

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• All There in the Manual: Byles is not named or identified at all in Titanic; one would have to look him up on The Other Wiki to realize he's the priest seen on the stern in the final minutes of the Titanic.
• Going Down with the Ship: Byles isn't seen at all until Jack and Rose reach the stern in the final sinking, but he refused to board a lifeboat and is giving a "death" sermon, having to hold onto something when the ship starts tilting. Byles is one of the 1,500 casualties of the sinking.
• Good Shepherd: He refuses a seat on a lifeboat so that he can minister to the doomed passengers and crew. In real life, Father Byles and two other priests, as well as Reverend John Harper, a Baptist minister from Glasgow, gave up their lifeboat seats and spent their final minutes praying for the other passengers and crew left aboard.
• Hufflepuff House: Father Byles travelled as a second class passenger, making him and the ship's orchestra the only members of second class that we follow in the film.

Countess of Rothes

Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes

Played By: Rochelle Rose

A close friend of Ruth DeWitt Bukater. During the sinking, she's shown retreating to her cabin after being informed that the shudder she felt was probably a propellor blade. She's later seen in the background holding the tiller of lifeboat 8.

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• Action Survivor: She is one of the first passengers to notice something is the matter when the engines have stopped, thus preparing for the worst even after a staff member assures her it's a temporary mishap. She also shows an initiative for survival on the lifeboats in Real Life.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She constantly has a pleasant smile on her face, but shows contempt towards lower class people like Molly and Jack.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Jack seems to have won her over during the dinner scene and she even sits next to him.
• Demoted to Extra: Many of the Countess’ scenes featuring her (historical) heroic actions are absent. Instead, she completely disappears for the second half of the film except for a very brief shot in which she’s barely visible.
  • A handful of scenes that were filmed but ended up getting cut include the Countess taking the tiller, singing songs to boost morale, urging the women in her boat to go back for survivors and looking after the steerage passengers onboard the Carpathia.
• Hero of Another Story: She can briefly be spotted onboard lifeboat 8, holding the tiller, but only sharp-eyed viewers will notice this. She also was a vocal Conservative supporter of Women's Suffrage and nursed soldiers during World War One.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: The real Countess of Rothes wasn't known for having any disdain towards steerage passengers and actually looked after them while onboard the Carpathia.
• Pet the Dog: She's genuinely impressed by Jack's stories and seems to warm up to him during dinner.
  • In real life, she also looked after the steerage passengers in her lifeboat.
  • In the March 1995 scriptment, she urges Rose to consider going to college to expand her horizons and develop her intellect in contrast to the MRS Degree attitude of her class and era.
  • Deleted scenes show her heroic actions during the sinking, including unsuccessfully attempting to convince her lifeboat to go back for survivors.
• The Quiet One: Doesn't speak much. The 1995 scriptment gave her some lines.

Sir Cosmo and Lady Lucille

Sir Cosmo and Lucille, Lady Duff-Gordon

Played By: Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres

Fashion designer and entitled husband. They seem to be quite friendly with Rose and Ruth and even Sir Cosmo thinks that Rose is a good match for Cal. Though he is unaware of their relationship. He and his wife survive the sinking in Lifeboat 1.

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• Everyone Has Standards: They are very civil with Jack and in a scene that is only featured in the script, Lucille recognizes Jack in the porthole of the Master-At-Arms cabin when they leave the ship.^note This would have been inaccurate, as Lifeboat 1 launched from the starboard side, along with all the odd-numbered boats, and the cabin is on the port side Her reaction is one of concern.
• Foil: To Ida and Isidor Strauss, who preferred to go down with the ship together while they survived.
• Happily Married: They’ve been married for some twenty plus years and are famous for being one of the few first class couples to survive the sinking.
• Hero of Another Story: Lucille was not only famous for designing fancy evening wear and "naughty lingerie", but she was influential in establishing the practice of draping and measuring fabric on a model rather than merely flat-patterning.
• It's All About Me: In the 1995 treatment, Lady Lucile is constantly whining about feeling seasick rather than the situation everyone else is in. Later, when Titanic is gone, she comments on her favourite dress being lost onboard.
• Lack of Empathy: Lady Lucile merely comments on her favourite dress still being onboard while Sir Cosmo calmly offers some cigars to the oarsmen as the people in the water are begging for their help.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In real life, Sir Cosmo offered a five pound check to the crew of Lifeboat 1 to compensate for the loss of their belongings^note  Their salary stopped as soon as the ship sank, but they were on the hook with White Star Line for all of their clothing and gear lost with the ship. He had no objection to rescuing people and had no ulterior motive other than decency. The press misinterpreted this as bribery and he spent most of the British Inquiry, and his life, denying this.
  • A deleted scene references this, in which a crewman in the boat says they should go back for survivors but Sir Cosmo replies that it is out of the question. However, this can be seen as simple pragmatism, because going back will likely endanger the lifeboat.
• Pet the Dog: Sir Cosmo refuses to help the people in the water, but is kind enough to offer some cigars and compensation to the crew in his boat.
  • Lady Lucile shows little concern for anyone except herself and her husband, but is shocked when seeing Jack locked up in the Master-at-Arms cabin.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Implied. Whilst it's never mentioned how the Duff-Gordons managed to board, Lovejoy mentions that some men bribed Officer Murdoch. The newspapers would later accuse the Duff-Gordons of bribery, but this was later proven to be false.

Archibald Gracie IV

Colonel Archibald Gracie IV

Played By: Bernard Fox

A writer and amateur historian, frequently shown having cigars and brandy with Cal. He survives the sinking, but the ordeal still made him a "victim" of it in the end due to hypothermia and injuries sustained in the sinking that he died at the end of the year; he's the first (prominent) survivor to pass away^note  Two children, both from Third Class, died first, one in July 1912 and the other in August 1912.

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• Action Survivor: He's seen helping Lightoller and the crew with Collapsible B, handing Lightoller a knife and being washed against the lifeboat by an oncoming wave.
• Bus Crash: After having survived the Titanic, he dies the same year after his health declines.
• Cool Old Guy: Survives the sinking by swimming to the upturned collapsible. He can also be seen actively assisting in the evacuation.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Feminist writer and director Jim Cameron uses him to demonstrate just how far perceptions and treatment of women have come.
  "As I always say, women and machinery don't mix."
  "Joining us, Dawson? You don't want to stay out here with the women, do you?"
• invokedFake American: The real Gracie was born in the American South, while here he has a distinct British accent.
• Heroic Bystander: Offers his services to multiple women and later the crew, when most people onboard are panicing and looking out for themselves.
• Innocently Insensitive: Half of his lines are him making sexist remarks while trying to compliment Jack or Rose.
• Killed Offscreen: He survived the sinking, but his health was never the same afterwards and he died before the year was out, becoming the first adult survivor to die after the sinking.
• Nice Guy: Very good-natured and gregarious with people, treats Jack as one of the guys, and was seen guiding passengers to lifeboats.
  • In a deleted scene he saves Bride from falling off the Collapsible and tries to keep his legs warm.
• Pet the Dog: He prods Cal into giving something to Jack for saving Rose.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Survives the sinking only to die a few months later.
• Side Bet: In a deleted scene, he mentions to Cosmo Duff-Gordon that he has made a $50 wager that they get into New York on Tuesday night.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He’s the one who suggests giving Jack a reward, which starts off the plot.
• Token Good Teammate: Never shows any signs of discrimination towards Jack or other lower class people. He even offers help to an unrecognizable Rose (whom he thought was a random steerage woman) and other Third Class passengers to the lifeboats. He’s still very pompous, however.
• Uncertain Doom: Subverted. Despite being an old man who is still onboard when most boats have left and showing no concern for his own safety, he survives the sinking on top of an upturned lifeboat.
• Upper-Class Twit: In his early scenes he definitely comes across as one. He seems to be incredibly sexist, pompous and inconsiderate of everyone else. This is then subverted when he actually proves to be brave, selfless and helpful during the sinking.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He is not seen again after he offers to lead Jack's group to the lifeboats. He survived the sinking, and the extended Carpathia sequence reflects this. It shows him on the overturned Collapsible B and then boarding Carpathia. In Real Life, he died in December of that year.

Benjamin Guggenheim

Benjamin Guggenheim

Played By: Michael Ensign

An American businessman, one of the elite shown having cigars with Cal.

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• Dressing to Die: He and his valet did this.
• Everyone Has Standards: He thinks Jack is a Bohemian at first (this line is only featured in the script), but gradually warms up to him.
• Face Death with Dignity: Ship is rapidly taking on water and most of us will be dead within the hour? Pfft, pour me a drink and let’s see how this all plays out. Though once the ship starts actually flooding and starting to fall apart we see he's clearly starting to lose his nerve.
• Going Down with the Ship: When it's clear the ship will sink, Guggenheim and his valet change into their finest evening wear to "go down as gentlemen."
• I Need a Freaking Drink: "But we would like a brandy!"
• It Has Been an Honor: In a deleted scene, he shakes Astor's hand in the Grand Staircase once it's clear that neither of them will survive.
• Oh, Crap!: The last time he's seen, it's as he's drinking his brandy when the top deck of the Grand Staircase floods in front of him. This is the expression on his face and his butler's face.

Wallace Hartley

Wallace Hartley

Played By: Jonathan Evans-Jones

The leader of Titanic's orchestra. They were instructed to play upbeat music to avoid causing a panic, and continued playing right until the end. He and the orchestra went down with the ship.

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• Deadpan Snarker: His reply when John Hume asks why they're still playing even though no one is listening anymore.
  "Well, they don't listen to us at dinner either."
• Going Down with the Ship: Around 2:10am, the band begins to disperse when they see that it's the end. Hartley stays and begins playing "Nearer, My God, to Thee," causing the band to join him for one last song.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Captain Smith instructs them to play music on deck in order to keep everyone calm, and they did so to the very end.
• Hufflepuff House: The ship's orchestra travelled as second-class passengers rather than members of the crew, making him and the other musicians, along with Father Thomas Byles, the only members of second-class that we see in the film.
• It Has Been an Honor: "Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight."
• Soundtrack Dissonance: He and the band had been instructed to play cheerful and upbeat music in order to avoid a panic. Among the songs they play are "Infernal Gallop" from Orpheus in the Underworld and Johann Strauss's The Blue Danube.

J. Bruce Ismay

J. Bruce Ismay

Played By: Jonathan Hyde

"The press knows the size of Titanic. Now I want them to marvel at her speed. We must give them something new to print! This maiden voyage of Titanic must make headlines!"

The owner of White Star Line.

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• Be Careful What You Wish For: One of the reasons he "recommends" Smith push the ship faster was because he wanted the maiden voyage of the Titanic to "make headlines". This is lampshaded in his face by Smith right away after they discover from Andrews and Murdoch that the iceberg's damage will sink the ship and likely kill at least half of those onboard. Sure enough, the voyage of the Titanic made headlines, but the exact opposite of the ones White Star and Ismay were hoping for.
  Captain Smith: I believe you may get your headlines, Mr. Ismay.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Downplayed, though he is a bit forceful when he "recommends" to Captain Smith that they push the engines.
• Dirty Coward: Downplayed. Unlike other portrayals of him, Ismay is shown helping passengers into a lifeboat late in the sinking, and gets in only after taking a look around and seeing that no one else is nearby.^note The seat that he takes is also one that Cal had bribed Murdoch into giving him, only to abandon moments beforehand so that he could go look for Rose, at least making Ismay's actions arguably the lesser of two evils. He still feels ashamed, though, and Murdoch gives him a Death Glare... which is ironic, as a number of sources state that Murdoch hustled Ismay onto the lifeboat in Real Life.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Not as much as in some other movies, but he's still portrayed as encouraging unsafe operations for the sake of publicity, which the real Ismay never did. White Star knew they could never compete with Cunard's faster ships, so they focused on making their ships more luxurious. Oddly enough, James Cameron knew his reputation was overbloated, but played into it anyway because "this is what the public [expects] to see." Make of that what you will.
• It's All My Fault: Blames himself for the sinking because he insisted that Captain Smith should make the ship go faster (something the real Ismay never did). He's so guilt-ridden that, when the stern rises up and the final plunge begins, he turns away in sorrow, almost as though he's about to start crying. A deleted scene about the Carpathia shows many of the survivors glaring at him in contempt, to which he hangs his head in utter shame. The Titanic experience instantly destroyed the real Ismay's career, who resigned from White Star by the end of the year and became a recluse.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In Real Life, Ismay’s escape from Titanic did not go unpunished. The American press, tipped off by William Randolph Hearst, labelled Ismay a coward and his public image was shattered. The British press and the British Board of Trade's investigation into the sinking protected him from further harm. Even so, he resigned as chairman the following year.
• My God, What Have I Done?: We can interpret his reactions to the ship going down as this.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: See Corrupt Corporate Executive.
• Pet the Dog: We see him helping several passengers into a lifeboat before getting on himself, and even then, he actually takes a look around to make sure no one is coming before doing so.
• Skewed Priorities: Values speed, luxury and good PR over safety. After the ship struck an iceberg, he complains that they will fall behind schedule.
• Smug Snake: He seems a bit too pleased with himself when he pressures Captain Smith into speeding up. Later, he attempts to intimidate Officer Lowe with his status, but is immediately told to back off.
• Survivor's Guilt: The deleted scene where Ismay arrives onboard the Carpathia shows this beautifully, where all the survivors glare at Ismay as he walks through the crowd. The deleted scene is called 'Ismay's guilt'.
• Upper-Class Twit: Doesn’t understand the seriousness of the situation until Andrews has to spell it out for him.

Fang Lang

Fang Lang

Played By: Van Ling

A Third Class passenger. He's pulled from the water by Lowe.

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• All There in the Manual: The credits refer to him as 'Chinese Man', but his story is based on that of Fang Lang. James Cameron's Titanic Explorer even refers to him as Fang Lang when narrating the scene.
• Bilingual Bonus: He says 'I'm right here!' in Cantonese when Lowe spots him in the water.
• Deleted Role: His most important scenes are deleted, so he ends up being a nameless extra in the final film. He can still be spotted shivering in Lowe's boat when he looks for survivors.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Along with almost every minor character, he appears a few times before the sinking. Most notably when Jack and Fabrizio are walking to their cabin on the first day, Fang Lang can be seen reading a dictionary.
• Token Minority: Appears to be the only Chinese man onboard. Or at least depicted in the film. In real life, there were 7 more Chinese passengers who traveled alongside him (2 died).

Elizabeth Lines

Elizabeth Lines

Played By: N/A

A First Class passenger.

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• All There in the Manual: Elizabeth Lines was having lunch when Ismay and Captain Smith were sitting nearby, discussing the possibility of lighting the last boilers. Her testimony helped give rise to the myth that Ismay was pushing for more speed, with the likely reason being he was hoping to beat Olympic's maiden voyage rather than trying to beat Cunard.
• The Cameo: She only appears in the background of one scene.
• Meaningful Background Event: When Ismay and Captain Smith are discussing the ship's speed, Lines can be seen in the background glancing at their conversation.

Arthur Peuchen

Arthur Peuchen

Played By: N/A

A Canadian businessman. He's allowed into Lifeboat 6 by Lightoller.

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• All There in the Manual: He is only identified by virtue of being a male passenger in Lifeboat 6, besides crewmembers Hichens and Fleet. He was allowed into the boat by Lightoller when it was realized that there weren't enough able seamen, and Peuchen, an experienced yachtsman, volunteered, becoming the only adult male passenger that Lightoller allowed into a boat.
• The Cameo: He's a noted Titanic survivor who only briefly appears in the film.
• Irony: If Cal hadn't gone after Rose when she decided to save Jack, he probably would have been asked to join Lifeboat 6 with Ruth and Molly Brown, as a deleted scene mentioned that he had been on the rowing team at Harvard and he is much younger and more fit than the 62-year-old Peuchen.
• The Voiceless: He only appears just behind Molly Brown and doesn't speak.

The Strauses

Isidor and Ida Straus

Played By: Lew Palter and Elsa Raven

The co-owners of Macy's Department Store. They refuse to board a lifeboat if it means being separated and choose to stay together as the ship goes down.

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• Alter Kocker: Downplayed. The Strauses were elderly German Jews, but they had actually spent most of their lives in America.
• Deadpan Snarker: In a deleted scene, Ida tells her husband not to argue, as it doesn't do him any good.
• Going Down with the Ship: Isidor refused to board a lifeboat before the other men, and Ida refused to board without her husband.
• Happily Married: They had been together for forty years and always stayed together. "Where you go, I go," as Ida says upon refusing to board the lifeboat
• Killed Offscreen: They are shown in their stateroom as it begins to flood, cutting away well before they drown.
• Together in Death: During the "Nearer, My God, to Thee" montage, the Strauses are shown together in their cabin as it fills with water. Sadly, in real life, only Isidor's body was found and identified afterwards.

Crew of the SS Californian

Third Officer Groves

Third Officer Charles Groves

Played By: Peter J. White

Third officer on the Californian.

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• All There in the Manual: Both Groves and Evans appear in a single scene that was ultimately cut from the film.
• Bystander Syndrome: After Evans tries and fails to warn Titanic about the ice field in their path, Evans retires for the night and Groves simply looks out at the massive icebergs that his own ship is surrounded by.

Cyril Evans

Cyril Evans

Played By: Adam Barke

Wireless operator on the Californian, which had stopped for the night due to ice conditions.

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• All There in the Manual: Both Evans and Groves appear in a single scene that was ultimately cut from the film.
• Bystander Syndrome: Evans tries to warn Titanic about the ice field, but after being told off by Phillips, he thinks nothing of it and decides to shut down for the night.
• Easily-Overheard Conversation: After being told to shut up by Phillips, and because of their close proximity providing clear wireless communication, Evans listens to the end of his current message to Cape Race, which is "Poker business good, Al."
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Californian stopped for the night due to being surrounded by an ice field, the same field that Titanic was about to steam in to. As a courtesy, Evans attempts to warn Titanic about the ice danger. However, he did not preface his message correctly, making a serious weather report sound more like casual conversation, and this causes Jack Phillips to tell him to shut up, as Californian's signal was jamming the connection Titanic had with Cape Race. Evans immediately shuts off his wireless set and goes to bed, meaning that the one ship within twenty miles of Titanic won't hear about the disaster until morning.

Fictional characters (circa 1996)

Crew of the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh

Brock Lovett

Brock Lovett

"Three years, I've thought of nothing except Titanic; but I never got it... I never let it in."

Played By: Bill Paxton

A treasure hunter trying to find the Heart of the Ocean.

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• Adventurer Archaeologist: A news report mentions that he's spent much of his career finding Spanish gold in the Caribbean. Going down to Titanic is one of the most dangerous submersible dives in the world.
• Audience Surrogate: Along with his crew, and Rose's granddaughter Lizy, Brock serves as the outside perspective, and the audience to Rose's story.
• Character Development: He is initially interested in only finding the diamond, but at the end, he is so moved by Rose's story that he immediately ends the expedition.
• Decoy Protagonist: Of a sort. Rose is undoubtedly the film's protagonist, and the story is of her and Jack. However, Brock serves as an Audience Surrogate character, with his exploration into the Titanic, and Rose reaching out to him being the Framing Device. It takes about half an hour before Rose starts telling her story.
• Establishing Character Moment: Upon arriving at the wreck of Titanic, Brock begins giving a sanctimonious narration about the emotions that seeing the wreck invokes, to which Lewis says "you are so full of shit, boss!" This makes it clear that he does not actually care about the ship or the disaster.
• Everyone Has Standards: In a deleted scene, Lewis makes a tactless joke about Rose jumping off the Titanic two days before it sank. Brock is not amused and tries to get him to cut it out.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: His sugary, overly sentimental speech about the Titanic's sinking is derided with mocking skepticism from his friend Lewis, who knows him all too well.
• Hypocrite: In the news interview, he tells the reporter that he has museum trained experts to preserve the artifacts that they recover. But moments earlier, he was completely careless in emptying the safe, tossing aside the muddy banknotes and Jack's folder which, as items recovered from the wreck, had just become priceless historical artifacts even before he found the drawing.
• I Gave My Word: In the Alternate Ending. When Rose is about to throw the Heart of the Ocean into the water, he asks only to hold it for a moment, as he's been looking for it for so long. She lets him, and while he could have easily kept it, he lets it go after a few seconds. He also knows that the diamond is hers, and she can do whatever she wants with it.
• Jerkass Realization: While he initially talked about how he found the story of the Titanic sinking to be a powerful one, it is only after hearing Rose's story about her time on the ship and her own experience of the sinking that he realises, despite having spent three years thinking about Titanic, he never truly let himself acknowledge the scope of the tragedy.
  Brock: [Holding a fresh cigar] I was saving this for when I found the diamond. [Throws it into the ocean]
• Mr. Exposition: After Rose arrives on the Keldysh, Brock gives some backstory about the Heart of the Ocean, establishing that the necklace is thought to have been cut from a diamond that belonged to Louis XVI. His opening monologue also helps convey the story of Titanic to the audience before we become fully immersed in it by the flashbacks.
• Only in It for the Money: He pays a lot of lip service to the tragedy and is only focused on obtaining the diamond. After Rose's story, he throws away the cigar he planned to light up upon finding it.
• Pet the Dog: Despite only wanting to use Rose to find the diamond, he clearly believes that she's telling the truth about being on the ship and wearing it the night of the sinking. He recovers a number of artifacts from her stateroom, and theorizes to Lizzy that she's only out here to make peace with the past.
• Robbing the Dead: While the recovery of artifacts from Titanic has always been controversial, with arguments ranging from the wreck being a mass grave that shouldn't be disturbed to others calling for the need to preserve historical artifacts while the wreck still exists, Brock is explicitly plundering the ship looking for the diamond in the hopes of a massive payout. The news reporter mentions he's being accused of grave robbing, to which Brock scoffs and says "no one called the recovery of artifacts from King Tut's tomb 'grave robbing.'" Which, yes, the recovery of those artifacts has been called grave robbing, because that's exactly what it was.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: His reaction in the alternate ending when he finds that Rose had the diamond on her the whole time.

Lewis Bodine

Lewis Bodine

Played By: Lewis Abernathy

Brock's best friend, who helps him in his expedition to find the Heart of the Ocean.

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• Deadpan Snarker: Lewis is arguably the most sarcastic character in the film.
  • 'Oops someone left the water running.'
  • 'You know, boss, the same thing happened to Geraldo and his career never recovered.'
  • 'Doesn't exactly travel light, does she?' on elderly Rose.
• Fat Bastard: He's quite heavy and clearly just interested in finding the diamond like Brock and the rest of the crew. He also makes a couple insensitive jokes about the sinking to Rose, despite her being a Titanic survivor. Nevertheless, he is moved to tears by the end of the story.
• Innocently Insensitive:
  • While he is describing to Rose the way the ship sank while the computer generated video plays, he is talking through it like it's a cool video game, complete with sound effects. Needless to say, it wasn't all fun and games for Rose and the 1500 people who died along with the ship's sinking. Rose is polite enough to simply tell Bodine that the experience was somewhat different from the way he described it.
  • In a deleted scene, Rose pauses her story to rest. After having heard about her attempted suicide, Lewis tactlessly jokes "You were gonna kill yourself by jumping off the Titanic? All you had to do was wait two days!"
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He treats Rose like total crap at first, and even he's moved to tears by the end of her story.
• Mr. Exposition: In the time between Old Rose calling Brock and her coming aboard the Keldysh, a few days at least, Lewis does a background check on her and relates this to Brock to try to convince him that she's seeking money or publicity. He also narrates a computer simulation of the Titanic's sinking, so the audience knows what to expect. After hearing Rose's story, he notes that he has been unable to find any official record of Jack's existence, but all acknowledge that this makes sense given Jack's lower-class status.
• Nerd Glasses: He wears glasses and is very well informed about the Titanic, a topic of interest for many nerds.
• Precision F-Strike: He gets the film's one of two uses of "fuck" when he rags on Captain Smith's supposed recklessness.
  "There's Smith, and he's got the iceberg warning in his fucking hand, excuse me, his hand, and he's ordering more speed."

Bobby Buell

Bobby Buell

Played By: Nicholas Cascone

Brock's manager during the expedition.

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• Bearer of Bad News: In a deleted scene when Rose goes to rest, Bobby tells Brock that they are in serious danger of being shut down.
• Deadpan Snarker: When Brock tries to reassure the partners that there are still plenty of places the diamond can be, Bobby jokes that it might be in Jimmy Hoffa's briefcase.
• Manly Tears: By the end of Rose's story, he's openly weeping.
• Race Against the Clock: He gives Brock two more days to find the diamond after telling him that the backers are about to pull the plug on them.

Anatoly Sagalevich

Dr. Anatoly Sagalevich

Played by: Dr. Anatoly Sagalevich

The Russian creator and pilot of the Mir submersible.

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• Ace Pilot: He gracefully guides Mir-1 over the bow of Titanic.
• As Himself: Sagalevich and the real crew of the Keldysh were hired by Cameron to serve as extras during the present-day scenes.
• Everyone Has Standards: In an exchange from the 1995 script that was cut from the film, Brock says that seeing the wreck "still gets him every time," and Sagalevich dryly asks if it's his guilt for stealing from the dead, showing that while he's clearly agreed to do this expedition, he draws the line at grave robbing.
• The Quiet One: He only says one line, when Brock doesn't find the diamond in the safe and asks "No diamond?"

The Calverts

Mr. Calvert

Mr. Calvert

Rose's late husband, who she met some time in the 1920s and had a family with.

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• Locked Out of the Loop: Rose never once told him about her life before meeting him, including her previous homelife, meeting Jack on the Titanic, surviving her sinking, and starting a new life on a promise she made with him.
• No Name Given: His given name is never mentioned.
• Posthumous Character: He died some time before the story begins.
• Second Love: He ended up being this for Rose. Despite having a long and fulfilling life with him, Rose never told him about Jack.

Lizzy Calvert

Lizzy Calvert

Played By: Suzy Amis

Rose's granddaughter and caretaker. She accompanies Rose to the Keldysh.

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• Deadpan Snarker: In a deleted scene, she overheard Brock telling Bobby that he just has to "work" Rose a little more in order to find the diamond. When he realizes she's been listening, Brock tries to explain himself, to which Lizzy asks "Don't you mean 'work me'?"
• Flat Character: She gets little characterization outside of being one of Rose's descendants.

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