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Celebrity Deathwatch: Arthur Cantor, Broadway Producer, 81



http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/News/04/10/showbuzz/#4

Broadway producer Arthur Cantor dead at 81
NEW YORK -- Arthur Cantor, the play producer who presented more than 100
productions in New York, London and Paris, died Sunday of a heart attack at
New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, Variety reports. He was 81.

Among the work that blossomed under Cantor's guidance: "A Thousand Clowns,"
"On Golden Pond," and "Dylan Thomas Growing Up."

Born in Boston and educated at Harvard, Cantor had made a career in the
theater since 1946, first as a publicist.

The first play he produced was Paddy Chayefsky's "The Tenth Man," which
opened on Broadway in 1959.

Cantor is survived by a daughter and a son. Another son died in 1991. His
wife died in 1970.

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