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