<P> Writing on the BBC News magazine website, Rosie Waites reports that Ismay was widely vilified in America after the sinking of the Titanic, due to the hostility shown in the yellow press controlled by William Randolph Hearst, who had fallen out with Ismay . Waites writes "Ismay was almost universally condemned in America, where the Hearst syndicated press ran a vitriolic campaign against him, labelling him' J. Brute Ismay' . It published lists of all those who died but in the column of those saved it had just one name--Ismay's ." </P> <P> Following from the Hearst press depiction of Ismay, Waites writes that every subsequent film about the Titanic has depicted Ismay as a villain, starting with the 1943 Nazi propaganda film Titanic; the 1996 miniseries Titanic; James Cameron's Titanic; and Julian Fellowes' TV miniseries Titanic, where he is shown to be a racist who orders a group of non-British crew members locked below to drown . Louden - Brown, consultant to the Cameron film, has stated that he thought the antagonistic characterisation of Ismay was unfair and he tried to challenge this . Louden - Brown said "Apart from being told, under no circumstances are we prepared to adjust the script, one thing they also said is' this is what the public expect to see' ." The 1958 film A Night to Remember did not blame Ismay for the disaster, but also presented him in an unfavourable and cowardly light, while a Titanic - themed episode of the science fiction television series Voyagers! portrayed Ismay dressing up as a woman in order to sneak into a lifeboat . </P> <P> Lord Mersey, who led the 1912 British inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic, concluded that Ismay had helped many other passengers before finding a place for himself on the last lifeboat to leave the starboard side . </P> <P> Ismay's reputation never recovered from the damage done to it by the Titanic disaster, and he kept a low profile afterwards . He lived part of the year in a large cottage, Costelloe Lodge, near Casla in Connemara, Ireland . Paul Louden - Brown, in his history of the White Star Line, writes that Ismay continued to be active in business, and that much of his work was for The Liverpool & London Steamship Protection & Indemnity Association Limited, a company founded by his father . According to Louden - Brown: "Hundreds of thousands of pounds were paid out in insurance claims to the relatives of the Titanic's victims; the misery created by the disaster and its aftermath dealt with by Ismay and his directors with great fortitude, this, despite the fact that he could easily have shirked his responsibilities and resigned from the board . He stuck with the difficult task and during his twenty - five year chairmanship hardly a page of the company's minutes does not contain some mention of the Titanic disaster ." </P>

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