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Nestor Paiva

Nestor Paiva

Actor · Born 1905-06-30 · Fresno, California, USA

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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nestor Paiva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikip…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) — Captain Lucas
  2. Bonanza (1959) — Francisco Tenino
  3. The Addams Family (1964) — Captain Grimby
  4. Get Smart (1965) — Doorman
  5. All That Heaven Allows (1955) — Manuel
  6. Tarantula (1955) — Sheriff Jack Andrews
  7. Viva Zapata! (1952) — New General (uncredited)
  8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) — Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
  9. Zorro (1957)
  10. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) — Joe Appollonio
  11. The Andy Griffith Show (1960) — Big Jack Anderson
  12. Revenge of the Creature (1955) — Captain Lucas
  13. The Sea Hawk (1940) — First Slavemaster
  14. Another Thin Man (1939) — West Indies Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
  15. Perry Mason (1957) — Nico
  16. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) — Auctioneer
  17. Mighty Joe Young (1949) — Brown
  18. The Left Handed Gun (1958) — Pete Maxwell
  19. Gunsmoke (1955) — Barman
  20. Beau Geste (1939) — Corporal Golas (uncredited)
  21. 5 Fingers (1952)
  22. Midnight (1939) — Woman's Escort (uncredited)
  23. Joan of Arc (1948) — Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband
  24. Road to Morocco (1942) — Sausage Vendor (uncredited)
  25. Union Pacific (1939) — Canadian Pacific Conductor (uncredited)
  26. The Paleface (1948) — Patient #2
  27. Hold That Ghost (1941) — Glum
  28. Humoresque (1947) — Orchestra Leader
  29. Lassie (1954) — Michael Zolenko
  30. The Southerner (1945) — Bartender
  31. Santa Fe Trail (1940) — Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)
  32. The Mole People (1956) — Prof. Etienne Lafarge
  33. Les Girls (1957) — Spanish Peasant (uncredited)
  34. Boom Town (1940) — Venezuelan Officer (uncredited)
  35. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) — Miguel
  36. The Inspector General (1949) — Gregor (uncredited)
  37. Young Man with a Horn (1950) — Louis Galba
  38. Ramrod (1947) — Curley
  39. For Me and My Gal (1942) — Nick (uncredited)
  40. The Lucy Show (1962) — Perkins