Nestor Paiva
Born: 1905-06-30 in Fresno, California, USA
Died: 1966-09-09
Known For: Acting
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 Wikipedia.
Filmography
1968
- They Saved Hitler's Brain as Police Chief Alaniz
1967
- The Spirit Is Willing as Felicity's Father
1966
- Family Affair
- Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter as Saloon Owner
- Let's Kill Uncle as Steward
1965
- Get Smart as Doorman
1964
- Daniel Boone as Menewa
- The Addams Family as Captain Grimby
- The Ballad of a Gunfighter as Padre
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Fisherman
- Burke's Law as Padre Emiliano
- The Bill Dana Show
- The Madmen of Mandoras as Police Chief Alaniz
- California as Gen. Micheltorena
1962
- The Lucy Show as Perkins
- The Virginian as Charley Sanchez
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Auctioneer
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as Miguel
- The Wild Westerners as John Bullard
- The Three Stooges in Orbit as Chairman
1961
- Target: The Corruptors!
- Atlantis: The Lost Continent as Megalos (uncredited)
- Gold of the Seven Saints as Gondora Henchman
- Frontier Uprising as Don Carlos Montalvo
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Big Jack Anderson
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Joe
- Johnny Midnight
- Can-Can as Bailiff
1959
- Bonanza as Francisco Tenino
- Rawhide as Hagerty
- Tightrope
- Wichita Town
- Alias Jesse James as Grigsby (uncredited)
- Vice Raid as Mob Boss Frank Burke
- The Purple Gang as Orlofsky
- Pier 5, Havana as Lopez
1958
- Lawman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Mexican Policeman (uncredited)
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- The Texan
- Sea Hunt
- Behind Closed Doors
- The Left Handed Gun as Pete Maxwell
- The Case Against Brooklyn as Finelli
- The Lady Takes a Flyer as Childreth
- Outcasts of the City as Pastor Skira
- The Deep Six as Pappa Tatos
1957
- Perry Mason as Nico
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Dan Tibner
- Maverick as Louie
- Zorro
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Axel
- Sugarfoot as Senor Contreras
- Alcoa Theatre as Aubert
- Whirlybirds as Ed Fenton
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Jailer
- The Guns of Fort Petticoat as Tortilla
- Les Girls as Spanish Peasant (uncredited)
- Ten Thousand Bedrooms as Alfredo - the Jeweler (uncredited)
1956
- Telephone Time
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Hey, Jeannie! as Gino
- On Trial as Bruno
- Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
- The Mole People as Prof. Etienne Lafarge
- Comanche as Puffer
- Scandal Incorporated as Leland Miller, tabloid publisher
- Ride The High Iron as Yard Boss
- The First Texan as Priest (uncredited)
- The Wild Party as Branson
- Menace from Outer Space as Prof. Cardos
1955
- Cheyenne
- Gunsmoke as Barman
- The Millionaire as Art Gallery Prop. Pataberes
- All That Heaven Allows as Manuel
- Tarantula as Sheriff Jack Andrews
- Hell on Frisco Bay as Louis Fiaschetti
- Revenge of the Creature as Captain Lucas
- New York Confidential as Martinelli
1954
- Lassie as Michael Zolenko
- Climax!
- December Bride
- Public Defender as George Barry
- Creature from the Black Lagoon as Captain Lucas
- Passport to Danger
- Casanova's Big Night as Gnocchi
- Four Guns to the Border as Greasy
- Jivaro as Jacques
- Moby Dick as Capt. Peleg
- The Desperado as Captain Jake Thornton
- Thunder Pass as Daniel Slaughter
- Anything Goes as Dr. Henry T. Dobson
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Victor Russo
- I'm the Law
- General Electric Theater as Perino
- Prisoners of the Casbah as Marouf
- I, the Jury as Manuel
- The Bandits of Corsica as Lorenzo
- Killer Ape as Andrews
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Judge Le Beau
- Cavalcade of America as Senor Alverez
- Dangerous Assignment
- China Smith
- Viva Zapata! as New General (uncredited)
- 5 Fingers
- Phone Call from a Stranger
- April in Paris
- Mara Maru as Captain Van Hoten (uncredited)
- The Living Bible as Herod Antipas
- The Fabulous Senorita as José Rodriguez
- South Pacific Trail as Carlos Alvarez
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Spike
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Captain Peleg
- Double Dynamite as 'Hot Horse' Harris, the Bookie
- The Great Caruso as Egisto Barretto
- Jim Thorpe – All-American
- A Millionaire for Christy as Mr. Rapello
- The Lady Pays Off as Manuel
- Flame Of Stamboul as Joe Octavian
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Young Man with a Horn as Louis Galba
- The Desert Hawk as Abdul
- I Was a Shoplifter as Deputy Sheriff Gomez
1949
- Mighty Joe Young as Brown
- The Inspector General as Gregor (uncredited)
- Alias Nick Beal as Karl
- Bride of Vengeance as Mayor
- Follow Me Quietly as Benny
- Señor Droopy as Bullfight Attender (voice) (uncredited)
1948
- Joan of Arc as Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Joe Appollonio
- The Paleface as Patient #2
- Angels' Alley as Tony 'Piggy' Locarno
- Mr. Reckless as Gus
- Adventures of Casanova as Prefecture Police
1947
- Ramrod as Curley
- Humoresque as Orchestra Leader
- Road to Rio as Cardoso
- The Trouble with Women as 2nd Tony - the Waiter (uncredited)
- A Likely Story as Tiny
- Robin Hood of Monterey as The Alcalde
- Carnival in Costa Rica as Padre Rafael
- Shoot to Kill as Gus Miller
- The Lone Wolf in Mexico as Police Capt. Carlos Rodriguez
1946
- Badman's Territory as Sam Bass
- Fear as Detective Shaefer
- Road to Utopia as McGurk
- The Last Crooked Mile as Ferrara
- The Well Groomed Bride as Fernandez
1945
- The Southerner as Bartender
- A Thousand and One Nights as Kahim
- Salome, Where She Danced as Panatela
- Cornered as Police Official (uncredited)
- A Medal for Benny as Frank Alviso (uncredited)
- Nob Hill as Luigi
- Along the Navajo Trail as Janza
- Sensation Hunters as Lew Davis
1944
- Shine on Harvest Moon as Romero (uncredited)
- The Falcon in Mexico as Manuel Romero
1943
- The Flying Jalopy as Ben Buzzard (voice) (uncredited)
- Background to Danger as Koylan (uncredited)
- The Hard Way as Max Wade (Uncredited)
- The Dancing Masters as Silvio - Ringleader (uncredited)
- True to Life as Kapopolis (uncredited)
- The Desert Song as Benoit
- Rhythm of the Islands as Chief Nataro
- Tornado as Big Joe Vlochek
- Don Winslow of the Coast Guard as The Scorpion
1942
- Road to Morocco as Sausage Vendor (uncredited)
- King of the Mounties as Count Baroni
- Pittsburgh as Barney, Cafe Proprietor
- For Me and My Gal as Nick (uncredited)
- The Lady Has Plans as Portuguese Porter (uncredited)
- American Empire as Defense Attorney
- Fly By Night as Grube
- The Adventures of Martin Eden
- Broadway as Rinelti
- The Girl from Alaska as Geroux
- Timber! as Jules Fabian
1941
- Hold That Ghost as Glum
- Johnny Eager as Tony Luce (uncredited)
- Hold Back the Dawn as Flores
- Pot o' Gold as Canadian Guide (uncredited)
- Meet Boston Blackie as Martin Vestrick (uncredited)
1940
- The Sea Hawk as First Slavemaster
- North West Mounted Police as Half-breed
- Santa Fe Trail as Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)
- Boom Town as Venezuelan Officer (uncredited)
- The Green Hornet Strikes Again! as Rufus - Henchman in Hawaii
- Arise, My Love as Uniformed Clerk (uncredited)
- Primrose Path as Bluebell Manager (uncredited)
- He Stayed for Breakfast as Gendarme
- Phantom Raiders as Policeman at Morris' Office & at Finale
- They Knew What They Wanted as Tony's Pal at Table (uncredited)
- The Marines Fly High as Pedro Fernandez
- Dark Streets of Cairo as Ahmend, waiter-thug
1939
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
- Union Pacific as Canadian Pacific Conductor (uncredited)
- Beau Geste as Corporal Golas (uncredited)
- Another Thin Man as West Indies Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
- Midnight as Woman's Escort (uncredited)
- Unseen Guardians as Mail Order Crook
1938
- Prison Train as Morose