Lawrence Beesely (December 31, 1877 – February 14, 1967) was an English science teacher who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. He was born one of eight children in Wirksworth, Derbyshire and educated at Derby School and Caius College, Cambridge. He received a degree in Natural Sciences in 1903 and served as a schoolmaster until 1957.  He is best known for his memoir The Loss of the S.S. Titanic, which was published just nine weeks after the disaster.  He is also famous for crashing the film set during production of A Night to Remember in 1958, hoping to go down with the ship during the re-enactment of the sinking, but was prevented from doing so by actors’ union rules. He was portrayed by David Warner in the 1979 dramatization of the voyage and disaster, S. O. S. Titanic.