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