Nestor Paiva
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.
Films (147)
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