David Cantor
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David Cantor (born c. 1955) is an American actor and singer from New York City. He attended Indiana University.
Cantor appeared on Broadway as Bobinet in La Vie Parisienne and covered the role of Che in Evita, later playing Che with the first national tour of the musical on the U.S. West coast. He appeared Off-Broadway for over 400 performances as Amshel and occasionally Nathan Rothschild in the critically acclaimed revival of The Rothschilds at Circle in the Square theater. Of his Che, The New York Times wrote on July 14, 1985, "David Cantor, a veteran in the part, is a marvelous Che, never lapsing into excessive snideness, singing gorgeously and, at times, sailing into the stratosphere with his crystalline 'high-flying, adored' pianissimi."
Cantor's other stage credits include Benny in a national tour of The Desert Song; Vernon Gersch in They're Playing Our Song; Stanley Jerome in both Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound; Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors; Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing; Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer; Matt in The Fantasticks in a production directed by the show’s creators, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt; John Adams in 1776; and Charlie in Tintypes. Cantor has performed principal roles in all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in the U.S., Great Britain, and Italy.
Cantor appeared in the films Working Girl, Prince of the City, So Fine, and The Chosen, and on television in All My Children, Loving, Another World, and Ryan's Hope.
Retired from show business (although he occasionally still performs in local productions), Cantor now owns and operates SmartStaff Personnel, a staffing and placement firm in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. Cantor lives in New Jersey with his wife (also formerly an actress) and children.
