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