Cal Hockley

""A real man makes his own luck.""

- Cal Hockley "I always win, Jack, one way or another."

- Cal Hockley

Caledon "Cal" Hockley is the main antagonist in James Cameron's hit movie "Titanic". He is Rose's extremely arrogant fiancé that wants to marry her at all costs to have her fortune. He was portrayed by Billy Zane.

Cal was so ruthless that he had his rival chained to the sinking ship in a desperate attempt to keep Rose for himself, though his efforts were to no avail as his violent temper and general contempt for others simply served to alienate him further from the woman he claimed to love.

Role in Titanic
Cal was the proud son of a steel industry tycoon that boarded the RMS Titanic with the First Class in 1912, appointed as a possible fiancé for Rose (the film's protagonist) by her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, both from the First Class as well, in an attempt to inherit his fortune, which Cal also wanted in Rose. Throughout the movie, Cal attempts to convince Rose into marrying him without success, as Rose is in love with Third Class passenger Jack Dawson. This is quickly noticed by Hockley and gets him into acting more aggressively towards her, but also more kind towards the end, when he gives her a necklace with the Heart of the Ocean, a valuable, heart-shaped, blue diamond. Rose then used the diamond when Jack proposed to draw her while only using the necklace. Cal discovered the drawing and decided to separate Rose and Jack once and for all. However, the Titanic hits an iceberg while halfway to New York, at first looking like minor damage. Meanwhile, Cal creates a minor commotion in Rose's bedroom and gets Jack blamed for theft of the diamond, sending him to the ship's lower rooms to be strapped to a pipe with Lovejoy as a guard, but he is freed by Rose. When the ship's damage are proven as fatal, Cal tricks Rose into boarding a lifeboat while promising he and Jack will board another one. Although Rose jumps back into the sinking Titanic and reunites with Jack in the Grand Staircase. Cal finally snaps and steals Lovejoy's weapon, chasing the couple to the flooding Dining Room, then leaving them to drown. He is later seen leaving Lovejoy behind and sneaking into a lifeboat, pretending to be saving a child. He never saw Rose again after the sinking. Even though he survived the Titanic, Rose (in present time) states that he committed suicide during the 1929 Wall Street Crash.