Nathan A. Taylor (1906 – February 29, 2004) was a Canadian inventor and film producer who co-founded Cineplex with Garth Drabinsky.
Taylor was born and raised in a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario and began his business career in 1918 selling postcards.
At first, the same program played in both auditoriums, but several years later Taylor came up with the idea of selling tickets to different movies from the same box office, laying claim as the first to do so.
The first location in 1979 at the Toronto Eaton Centre had 18 screens (soon increased to 21), a Guinness World Record at the time.
[2] His second wife was Canadian arts figure Claire Drainie Taylor, with whom he had six stepchildren, Bronwyn, Kathryn, Michael, Jocelyn, Philip and David.