
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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