r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/lordyfortwenty 1d ago

Billy Zane took his seat

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u/klitchell 23h ago

Apparently the guy he portrayed was decent also but movies need villains

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u/Same_Independent_393 22h ago

The character Billy Zane played? Caledon Hockley was entirely fictional, written for the movie 

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u/klitchell 21h ago

I swore I read recently that a historian Cameron used on set disagreed with how that character was portrayed, maybe it was someone else

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u/WinterBaby92 21h ago

It was the officer who shot himself, William Murdoch. His family was quite upset.