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1 day ago · Smith also acknowledged this report, and showed it to White Star Line chairman J. Bruce Ismay, aboard Titanic for her maiden voyage. Smith ordered a new course to be set, to take the ship farther south. At 13:45, the German ship SS Amerika, which was a short distance to the south, reported she had "passed two large icebergs".
1 day ago · But Bruce Ismay, as we know, the chairman of White Star, survived after being invited on board a lifeboat. And as a result, his reputation is just completely shattered, and he is accused of cowardice in both America and in Britain.
4 days ago · Many real-life figures are featured throughout the film, including Capt. Edward J. Smith (Bernard Hill), J. Bruce Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), and “Unsinkable” Molly Brown (Kathy Bates), and actual underwater footage of the wreck was used for the opening scenes.
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3 days ago · Lord Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff, intended to travel aboard the Titanic, but illness prevented him from joining the ill-fated voyage; however, White Star Line's managing director J. Bruce Ismay and the ship's Harland and Wolff designer, Thomas Andrews, were both on board to oversee the ship's progress on her maiden voyage.
5 days ago · J. Bruce Ismay. Anthony Jonathan Hyde is best known for his role as J. Bruce Ismay in Titanic. The real Ismay was called a coward for the rest of his life because he had a spot in a lifeboat ...
2 days ago · Jonathan Hyde as J. Bruce Ismay, White Star Line's ignorant, boorish managing director. Ismay influences Captain Smith to go faster with the prospect of an earlier arrival in New York and favorable press attention; while this appears in popular portrayals of the disaster, it is unsupported by evidence.
2 days ago · This is especially true as he fails to ward off the repeated demands for increased speed from the aristocrat J. Birdie Ismay, also well-acted by Maggie Campione. Ismay constantly demands that Captain E.J. Smith (played by Basleel Dinessa), First Officer Murdoch (Reagan Scott), and Third Officer Pitman (Caroline Hutchins) go faster, to the ship’s ultimate demise.
