Nestor Paiva
Biography
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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-06-30
Place of birth
Fresno, California, USA
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Cast
Pier 5, Havana
1959
4.56
Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954
6.83
The Trouble with Women
1947
0.00
Fear
1946
4.47
Follow Me Quietly
1949
6.20
Tarantula
1955
6.50
Alias Nick Beal
1949
6.90
Vice Raid
1959
6.20
The Great Caruso
1951
5.70
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
5.30
The Three Stooges in Orbit
1962
5.19
Young Man with a Horn
1950
6.30
Revenge of the Creature
1955
5.60
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
1961
5.20
The Mole People
1956
5.10
Road to Utopia
1946
6.60
New York Confidential
1955
5.80
Let's Kill Uncle
1966
5.50
The Spirit Is Willing
1967
5.36
All That Heaven Allows
1955
7.30
Ramrod
1947
6.50
I, the Jury
1953
5.70
Les Girls
1957
6.40
Pittsburgh
1942
6.20
The Case Against Brooklyn
1958
5.80
Scandal Incorporated
1956
3.00
The Falcon in Mexico
1944
5.30
Mighty Joe Young
1949
6.30
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
6.70
The Last Crooked Mile
1946
5.04
Shoot to Kill
1947
4.70
Hell on Frisco Bay
1955
5.20
Double Dynamite
1951
6.20
The Ballad of a Gunfighter
1964
3.50
The Madmen of Mandoras
1963
3.00
The First Texan
1956
6.10
Broadway
1942
5.50
Angels' Alley
1948
4.00
Comanche
1956
5.00
The Bandits of Corsica
1953
5.80
The Lady Takes a Flyer
1958
4.10
Jivaro
1954
5.20
Killer Ape
1953
4.30
Flame Of Stamboul
1951
4.50
The Wild Party
1956
5.80
Meet Boston Blackie
1941
6.30
Johnny Eager
1941
6.10
The Flying Jalopy
1943
6.60
The Desert Song
1943
5.90
Tornado
1943
5.50
They Saved Hitler's Brain
1968
2.20
The Fabulous Senorita
1952
6.00
Carnival in Costa Rica
1947
6.00
Four Guns to the Border
1954
4.57
Nob Hill
1945
5.70
Mr. Reckless
1948
4.50
Ride The High Iron
1956
0.00
Casanova's Big Night
1954
6.10
Adventures of Casanova
1948
5.00
South Pacific Trail
1952
0.00
The Marines Fly High
1940
5.50
The Purple Gang
1959
6.30
Prisoners of the Casbah
1953
5.40
Pot o' Gold
1941
5.50
A Medal for Benny
1945
4.50
The Living Bible
1952
6.00
Midnight
1939
7.40
Union Pacific
1939
6.50
Another Thin Man
1939
7.10
Beau Geste
1939
7.00
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
7.30
Phone Call from a Stranger
1952
6.40
The Hard Way
1943
6.60
Bride of Vengeance
1949
4.50
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
0.00
5 Fingers
1952
7.57
Sensation Hunters
1945
4.70
Fly By Night
1942
6.40
Viva Zapata!
1952
6.90
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940
6.20
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
6.30
The Southerner
1945
6.50
A Millionaire for Christy
1951
6.40
Outcasts of the City
1958
0.00
The Desperado
1954
6.60
A Likely Story
1947
4.20
Rhythm of the Islands
1943
4.00
The Lone Wolf in Mexico
1947
5.70
Santa Fe Trail
1940
5.70
Boom Town
1940
6.90
The Dancing Masters
1943
6.00
Road to Rio
1947
6.70
North West Mounted Police
1940
6.30
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
3.70
The Sea Hawk
1940
7.09
Can-Can
1960
6.60
Arise, My Love
1940
6.30
Phantom Raiders
1940
6.10
They Knew What They Wanted
1940
5.55
Primrose Path
1940
6.50
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
0.00
Dark Streets of Cairo
1940
6.00
Gold of the Seven Saints
1961
7.00
Unseen Guardians
1939
7.00
Mara Maru
1952
4.80
The Lady Has Plans
1942
5.20
The Lady Pays Off
1951
7.00
The Desert Hawk
1950
5.10
King of the Mounties
1942
0.00
Robin Hood of Monterey
1947
5.90
American Empire
1942
3.80
Thunder Pass
1954
6.00
Frontier Uprising
1961
4.80
California
1963
3.00
The Wild Westerners
1962
7.00
Hold That Ghost
1941
6.75
Humoresque
1947
7.10
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
5.70
The Paleface
1948
6.10
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
4.00
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
1943
0.00
Background to Danger
1943
6.60
Señor Droopy
1949
6.80
True to Life
1943
6.00
The Inspector General
1949
6.47
Road to Morocco
1942
6.87
Badman's Territory
1946
5.70
Alias Jesse James
1959
5.90
The Girl from Alaska
1942
6.00
Cornered
1945
6.00
Anything Goes
1954
6.00
Menace from Outer Space
1956
3.30
Prison Train
1938
6.00
The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942
6.00
Joan of Arc
1948
6.10
Timber!
1942
0.00
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957
5.00
For Me and My Gal
1942
6.40
The Left Handed Gun
1958
6.00
Moby Dick
1954
0.00
April in Paris
1952
4.90
The Deep Six
1958
5.40