Billy Zane is an actor and producer. He is best known for his role as Caledon Hockley, the wealthy antagonist in the 1997 film Titanic. Zane has also appeared in films like The Phantom, Dead Calm, and Back to the Future, and has worked in television, voice acting, and theater throughout his career.
William George Zane Jr. born February 24, 1966 is an American actor. His breakthrough role was in the Australian film Dead Calm 1989, a performance that earned him a nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actor. He has since appeared in numerous films and television series, and starred as the main antagonist Caledon Hockley in the epic film Titanic 1997, for which he and the rest of the ensemble cast was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Zane’s other film roles include Kit Walker / The Phantom in the superhero film The Phantom1996, Match in the Back to the Futurefranchise, Lieutenant Val Kozlowski in Memphis Belle 1990, The Collector in Demon Knight1995, Curtis Zampf in The Believer 2001, and Richard Miller in the Sniper film series. He also played the recurring role of John Justice Wheeler in the second season of the television series Twin Peaks, and provided the voice of Ansem in the video game Kingdom Hearts2002.