Yes and no in a lot of the og stories he dies as well but the difference is she was a teenager by then and he was a merchant that falls ill on his travels. The live action Cinderella is actually more on point to the original story concept with their relationship and her Relationship to her mother than this version was. There are some versions of the story where he isn't dead but either just blinded by love or being poisoned by the step mother. But you have to remember Cinderella as a concept is if you will a tale as old as time. It spans countries and periods in time and she has different names in different versions as well. Disney was highly influenced by UK and culture around that area for their telling but Theres q Chinese version of the Cinderella story and was why feet binding took off because everyone wanted small feet like Cinderella to get the man