
Acting
Born June 30, 1905 · Fresno, California, USA
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.

They Saved Hitler's Brain
1968

The Spirit Is Willing
1967

Let's Kill Uncle
1966

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966

The Ballad of a Gunfighter
1964

The Madmen of Mandoras
1963

California
1963

The Three Stooges in Orbit
1962

The Wild Westerners
1962

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962

Atlantis: The Lost Continent
1961

Gold of the Seven Saints
1961

Frontier Uprising
1961

Can-Can
1960

The Purple Gang
1959

Vice Raid
1959

Pier 5, Havana
1959

Alias Jesse James
1959

The Case Against Brooklyn
1958

The Left Handed Gun
1958

The Lady Takes a Flyer
1958

The Deep Six
1958

Outcasts of the City
1958

Les Girls
1957

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957

The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957

The Wild Party
1956

The Mole People
1956

Ride The High Iron
1956

Scandal Incorporated
1956

The First Texan
1956

Comanche
1956

Menace from Outer Space
1956

Hell on Frisco Bay
1955

Tarantula
1955

All That Heaven Allows
1955

New York Confidential
1955

Revenge of the Creature
1955

Four Guns to the Border
1954

Thunder Pass
1954

The Desperado
1954

Moby Dick
1954

Casanova's Big Night
1954

Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954

Anything Goes
1954

Jivaro
1954

Killer Ape
1953

Prisoners of the Casbah
1953

I, the Jury
1953

The Bandits of Corsica
1953

April in Paris
1952

South Pacific Trail
1952

Mara Maru
1952

The Fabulous Senorita
1952

5 Fingers
1952

Viva Zapata!
1952

Phone Call from a Stranger
1952

The Living Bible
1952

Double Dynamite
1951

The Lady Pays Off
1951

A Millionaire for Christy
1951

Jim Thorpe – All-American
1951

The Great Caruso
1951

Flame Of Stamboul
1951

The Desert Hawk
1950

I Was a Shoplifter
1950

Young Man with a Horn
1950

The Inspector General
1949

Mighty Joe Young
1949

Follow Me Quietly
1949

Señor Droopy
1949

Bride of Vengeance
1949

Alias Nick Beal
1949

Joan of Arc
1948

The Paleface
1948

Mr. Reckless
1948

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948

Angels' Alley
1948

Adventures of Casanova
1948

Road to Rio
1947

Robin Hood of Monterey
1947

The Trouble with Women
1947

Ramrod
1947

A Likely Story
1947

Carnival in Costa Rica
1947

Shoot to Kill
1947

Humoresque
1947

The Lone Wolf in Mexico
1947

The Last Crooked Mile
1946

The Well Groomed Bride
1946

Badman's Territory
1946

Fear
1946

Road to Utopia
1946

Cornered
1945

Sensation Hunters
1945

Along the Navajo Trail
1945

A Thousand and One Nights
1945

Nob Hill
1945

The Southerner
1945

Salome, Where She Danced
1945

A Medal for Benny
1945

The Falcon in Mexico
1944

Shine on Harvest Moon
1944

True to Life
1943

The Desert Song
1943

The Dancing Masters
1943

Tornado
1943

Background to Danger
1943

Rhythm of the Islands
1943

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
1943

The Flying Jalopy
1943

The Hard Way
1943

Pittsburgh
1942

American Empire
1942

Road to Morocco
1942

For Me and My Gal
1942

King of the Mounties
1942

Timber!
1942

Broadway
1942

The Girl from Alaska
1942

The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942

The Lady Has Plans
1942

Fly By Night
1942

Johnny Eager
1941

Hold Back the Dawn
1941

Hold That Ghost
1941

Pot o' Gold
1941

Meet Boston Blackie
1941

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940

Santa Fe Trail
1940

Dark Streets of Cairo
1940

Arise, My Love
1940

North West Mounted Police
1940

They Knew What They Wanted
1940

He Stayed for Breakfast
1940

Boom Town
1940

The Sea Hawk
1940

Phantom Raiders
1940

Primrose Path
1940

The Marines Fly High
1940

Another Thin Man
1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939

Unseen Guardians
1939

Beau Geste
1939

Union Pacific
1939

Midnight
1939

Prison Train
1938