Nestor Paiva
Biography
Nestor Paiva (June 30, 1905 - September 9, 1966) was a prolific American actor of Portuguese descent who portrayed the innkeeper on Walt Disney's live-action television series Zorro by ABC and its feature film The Sign of Zorro which was shot in Burbank's Walt Disney Studios.
Nestor appeared in motion pictures and television shows from the 1930s to the 1960s such as Get Smart, Bonanza, I Spy, Family Affair, Gunsmoke, The Beverly Hillbillies, and The Addams Family. In 1943, he played the Italian Major in the 20th Century Fox wartime movie Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas. He played the part of Lucas (the boat captain) in the 1954 horror film The Creature from the Black Lagoon starring Ben Chapman as the title monster; Paiva would reprise this role in that film's sequel Revenge of the Creature the following year. He appeared in more than 250 movies. Paiva married in 1941 and had two children, Joseph and Caetana, who appeared with him in the 1956 movie Comanche with Dana Andrews.
Paiva died of cancer in 1966. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.
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Acting (146 movies)
Pier 5, Havana
1959
Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954
The Trouble with Women
1947
Fear
1946
Follow Me Quietly
1949
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
Tarantula
1955
Alias Nick Beal
1949
Vice Raid
1959
The Great Caruso
1951
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
The Three Stooges in Orbit
1962
Young Man with a Horn
1950
Revenge of the Creature
1955
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
1961
The Mole People
1956
Road to Utopia
1946
New York Confidential
1955
Let's Kill Uncle
1966
The Spirit Is Willing
1967
All That Heaven Allows
1955
Ramrod
1947
I, the Jury
1953
Les Girls
1957
Pittsburgh
1942
The Case Against Brooklyn
1958
Scandal Incorporated
1956
The Falcon in Mexico
1944
Mighty Joe Young
1949
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
The Last Crooked Mile
1946
Shoot to Kill
1947
Hell on Frisco Bay
1955
Double Dynamite
1951
The Ballad of a Gunfighter
1964
The Madmen of Mandoras
1963
The First Texan
1956
Broadway
1942
Angels' Alley
1948
Comanche
1956
The Bandits of Corsica
1953
The Lady Takes a Flyer
1958
Jivaro
1954
Killer Ape
1953
Flame Of Stamboul
1951
The Wild Party
1956
Meet Boston Blackie
1941
Johnny Eager
1941
The Flying Jalopy
1943
The Desert Song
1943
Tornado
1943
They Saved Hitler's Brain
1968
The Fabulous Senorita
1952
Carnival in Costa Rica
1947
Four Guns to the Border
1954
Nob Hill
1945
Mr. Reckless
1948
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966
Ride The High Iron
1956
Casanova's Big Night
1954
Adventures of Casanova
1948
South Pacific Trail
1952
The Marines Fly High
1940
The Purple Gang
1959
Prisoners of the Casbah
1953
Pot o' Gold
1941
A Medal for Benny
1945
The Living Bible
1952
Midnight
1939
Union Pacific
1939
Another Thin Man
1939
Beau Geste
1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
Phone Call from a Stranger
1952
The Hard Way
1943
Bride of Vengeance
1949
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
5 Fingers
1952
Sensation Hunters
1945
Fly By Night
1942
Viva Zapata!
1952
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
The Southerner
1945
A Millionaire for Christy
1951
Outcasts of the City
1958
The Desperado
1954
A Likely Story
1947
Rhythm of the Islands
1943
The Lone Wolf in Mexico
1947
Santa Fe Trail
1940
Boom Town
1940
The Dancing Masters
1943
Road to Rio
1947
North West Mounted Police
1940
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
The Sea Hawk
1940
Can-Can
1960
Arise, My Love
1940
Phantom Raiders
1940
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