Nestor Paiva
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nestor Paiva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
as Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
as Captain Lucas
The Flying Jalopy (1943)
as Ben Buzzard (voice) (uncredited)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
as Brown
The Sea Hawk (1940)
as First Slavemaster
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
as Louis Galba
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
as Manuel
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
as Pete Maxwell
Vice Raid (1959)
as Mob Boss Frank Burke
Viva Zapata! (1952)
as New General (uncredited)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)
Alias Jesse James (1959)
as Grigsby (uncredited)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
as Half-breed
Joan of Arc (1948)
as Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
as Joe Appollonio
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
as Miguel
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)
as Louis Fiaschetti
Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)
as Megalos (uncredited)
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
as Captain Lucas
The Great Caruso (1951)
as Egisto Barretto
Tarantula (1955)
as Sheriff Jack Andrews
Union Pacific (1939)
as Canadian Pacific Conductor (uncredited)
Hold That Ghost (1941)
as Glum
Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
Actor
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)
as Tortilla
The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)
as Rufus - Henchman in Hawaii
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
as Kahim
Double Dynamite (1951)
as 'Hot Horse' Harris, the Bookie
5 Fingers (1952)
Actor
Another Thin Man (1939)
as West Indies Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)
Actor
Comanche (1956)
as Puffer
The Lady Has Plans (1942)
as Portuguese Porter (uncredited)
The Desert Hawk (1950)
as Abdul
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
as Gnocchi
Four Guns to the Border (1954)
as Greasy
They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
as Tony's Pal at Table (uncredited)
The Paleface (1948)
as Patient #2
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
as Flores
The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)
as Finelli
The Inspector General (1949)
as Gregor (uncredited)
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
as Saloon Owner
Road to Morocco (1942)
as Sausage Vendor (uncredited)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
as Nick (uncredited)
Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)
as Gondora Henchman
Beau Geste (1939)
as Corporal Golas (uncredited)
Road to Utopia (1946)
as McGurk
Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
as Panatela
Along the Navajo Trail (1945)
as Janza
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
as Gendarme
The Bandits of Corsica (1953)
as Lorenzo
Les Girls (1957)
as Spanish Peasant (uncredited)
The Mole People (1956)
as Prof. Etienne Lafarge
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
as Karl
Midnight (1939)
as Woman's Escort (uncredited)
Let's Kill Uncle (1966)
as Steward
I, the Jury (1953)
as Manuel
Ride The High Iron (1956)
as Yard Boss
Can-Can (1960)
as Bailiff
The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
as Felicity's Father
The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958)
as Childreth
Menace from Outer Space (1956)
as Prof. Cardos
Arise, My Love (1940)
as Uniformed Clerk (uncredited)
The Lady Pays Off (1951)
as Manuel
Boom Town (1940)
as Venezuelan Officer (uncredited)
Ramrod (1947)
as Curley
Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
as Alfredo - the Jeweler (uncredited)
The First Texan (1956)
as Priest (uncredited)
King of the Mounties (1942)
as Count Baroni
The Southerner (1945)
as Bartender
Johnny Eager (1941)
as Tony Luce (uncredited)
The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)
as Chairman
Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)
as Ahmend, waiter-thug
A Medal for Benny (1945)
as Frank Alviso (uncredited)
Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
as Romero (uncredited)
I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
as Deputy Sheriff Gomez
Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
as Padre Rafael
Badman's Territory (1946)
as Sam Bass
New York Confidential (1955)
as Martinelli
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)
Actor
Humoresque (1947)
as Orchestra Leader
Primrose Path (1940)
as Bluebell Manager (uncredited)
The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
as Fernandez
A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
as Mr. Rapello
Road to Rio (1947)
as Cardoso
Fear (1946)
as Detective Shaefer
The Deep Six (1958)
as Pappa Tatos
The Last Crooked Mile (1946)
as Ferrara
Follow Me Quietly (1949)
as Benny
Scandal Incorporated (1956)
as Leland Miller, tabloid publisher
The Falcon in Mexico (1944)
as Manuel Romero
The Trouble with Women (1947)
as 2nd Tony - the Waiter (uncredited)
April in Paris (1952)
Actor
True to Life (1943)
as Kapopolis (uncredited)
Prisoners of the Casbah (1953)
as Marouf
The Dancing Masters (1943)
as Silvio - Ringleader (uncredited)
Rhythm of the Islands (1943)
as Chief Nataro
Broadway (1942)
as Rinelti
Moby Dick (1954)
as Capt. Peleg
Background to Danger (1943)
as Koylan (uncredited)
The Desperado (1954)
as Captain Jake Thornton
The Marines Fly High (1940)
as Pedro Fernandez
They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968)
as Police Chief Alaniz
Pot o' Gold (1941)
as Canadian Guide (uncredited)
The Madmen of Mandoras (1963)
as Police Chief Alaniz
The Wild Party (1956)
as Branson
The Living Bible (1952)
as Herod Antipas
The Girl from Alaska (1942)
as Geroux
Outcasts of the City (1958)
as Pastor Skira
The Lone Wolf in Mexico (1947)
as Police Capt. Carlos Rodriguez
The Hard Way (1943)
as Max Wade (Uncredited)
The Desert Song (1944)
as Benoit
Jivaro (1954)
as Jacques
The Purple Gang (1959)
as Orlofsky
A Likely Story (1947)
as Tiny
Cornered (1945)
as Police Official (uncredited)
Pittsburgh (1942)
as Barney, Cafe Proprietor
Robin Hood of Monterey (1947)
as The Alcalde
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943)
as The Scorpion
Angels' Alley (1948)
as Tony 'Piggy' Locarno
Thunder Pass (1954)
as Daniel Slaughter
Mara Maru (1952)
as Captain Van Hoten (uncredited)
Bride of Vengeance (1949)
as Mayor
Phantom Raiders (1940)
as Policeman at Morris' Office & at Finale
American Empire (1942)
as Defense Attorney
Adventures of Casanova (1948)
as Prefecture Police
The Wild Westerners (1962)
as John Bullard
Sensation Hunters (1945)
as Lew Davis
The Fabulous Senorita (1952)
as José Rodriguez
Señor Droopy (1949)
as Bullfight Attender (voice) (uncredited)
Frontier Uprising (1961)
as Don Carlos Montalvo
Fly By Night (1942)
as Grube
Shoot to Kill (1947)
as Gus Miller
Killer Ape (1953)
as Andrews
Tornado (1943)
as Big Joe Vlochek
Pier 5, Havana (1959)
as Lopez
Nob Hill (1945)
as Luigi
South Pacific Trail (1952)
as Carlos Alvarez
Flame Of Stamboul (1951)
as Joe Octavian
Timber! (1942)
as Jules Fabian
The Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964)
as Padre
California (1963)
as Gen. Micheltorena
Anything Goes (1954)
as Dr. Henry T. Dobson
Mr. Reckless (1948)
as Gus
Meet Boston Blackie (1941)
as Martin Vestrick (uncredited)
Prison Train (1938)
as Morose
Unseen Guardians (1939)
as Mail Order Crook