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
- Let's Kill Uncle as Steward
- Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter as Saloon Owner
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 Beverly Hillbillies as Auctioneer
- The Virginian as Charley Sanchez
- The Lucy Show as Perkins
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as Miguel
- The Three Stooges in Orbit as Chairman
- The Wild Westerners as John Bullard
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
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Mexican Policeman (uncredited)
- Lawman
- Sea Hunt
- The Texan
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Behind Closed Doors
- The Left Handed Gun as Pete Maxwell
- The Deep Six as Pappa Tatos
- The Lady Takes a Flyer as Childreth
- The Case Against Brooklyn as Finelli
- Outcasts of the City as Pastor Skira
1957
- Perry Mason as Nico
- Maverick as Louie
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Dan Tibner
- Zorro
- Sugarfoot as Senor Contreras
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Axel
- Alcoa Theatre as Aubert
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Jailer
- Whirlybirds as Ed Fenton
- 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 Adventures of Jim Bowie
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
- Hey, Jeannie! as Gino
- On Trial as Bruno
- Comanche as Puffer
- The Mole People as Prof. Etienne Lafarge
- Scandal Incorporated as Leland Miller, tabloid publisher
- The Wild Party as Branson
- The First Texan as Priest (uncredited)
- Ride The High Iron as Yard Boss
- 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
- Revenge of the Creature as Captain Lucas
- Hell on Frisco Bay as Louis Fiaschetti
- Tarantula as Sheriff Jack Andrews
- 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
- Four Guns to the Border as Greasy
- Moby Dick as Capt. Peleg
- Casanova's Big Night as Gnocchi
- Jivaro as Jacques
- 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
- I, the Jury as Manuel
- Prisoners of the Casbah as Marouf
- 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)
- Phone Call from a Stranger
- 5 Fingers
- 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
- The Lady Pays Off as Manuel
- A Millionaire for Christy as Mr. Rapello
- 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
- Follow Me Quietly as Benny
- Bride of Vengeance as Mayor
- Señor Droopy as Bullfight Attender (voice) (uncredited)
1948
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Joe Appollonio
- Joan of Arc as Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband
- The Paleface as Patient #2
- Adventures of Casanova as Prefecture Police
- Angels' Alley as Tony 'Piggy' Locarno
- Mr. Reckless as Gus
1947
- Ramrod as Curley
- Humoresque as Orchestra Leader
- Road to Rio as Cardoso
- The Trouble with Women as 2nd Tony - the Waiter (uncredited)
- Carnival in Costa Rica as Padre Rafael
- The Lone Wolf in Mexico as Police Capt. Carlos Rodriguez
- A Likely Story as Tiny
- Robin Hood of Monterey as The Alcalde
- Shoot to Kill as Gus Miller
1946
- Fear as Detective Shaefer
- Road to Utopia as McGurk
- Badman's Territory as Sam Bass
- The Last Crooked Mile as Ferrara
- The Well Groomed Bride as Fernandez
1945
- A Thousand and One Nights as Kahim
- Salome, Where She Danced as Panatela
- A Medal for Benny as Frank Alviso (uncredited)
- Along the Navajo Trail as Janza
- The Southerner as Bartender
- Cornered as Police Official (uncredited)
- Nob Hill as Luigi
- Sensation Hunters as Lew Davis
1944
- The Falcon in Mexico as Manuel Romero
- The Desert Song as Benoit
- Shine on Harvest Moon as Romero (uncredited)
1943
- The Flying Jalopy as Ben Buzzard (voice) (uncredited)
- The Hard Way as Max Wade (Uncredited)
- The Dancing Masters as Silvio - Ringleader (uncredited)
- True to Life as Kapopolis (uncredited)
- Rhythm of the Islands as Chief Nataro
- Background to Danger as Koylan (uncredited)
- Don Winslow of the Coast Guard as The Scorpion
- Tornado as Big Joe Vlochek
1942
- Road to Morocco as Sausage Vendor (uncredited)
- The Lady Has Plans as Portuguese Porter (uncredited)
- For Me and My Gal as Nick (uncredited)
- King of the Mounties as Count Baroni
- The Adventures of Martin Eden
- The Girl from Alaska as Geroux
- American Empire as Defense Attorney
- Pittsburgh as Barney, Cafe Proprietor
- Broadway as Rinelti
- Fly By Night as Grube
- Timber! as Jules Fabian
1941
- Hold That Ghost as Glum
- Hold Back the Dawn as Flores
- Johnny Eager as Tony Luce (uncredited)
- Pot o' Gold as Canadian Guide (uncredited)
- Meet Boston Blackie as Martin Vestrick (uncredited)
1940
- The Sea Hawk as First Slavemaster
- Santa Fe Trail as Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)
- North West Mounted Police as Half-breed
- The Green Hornet Strikes Again! as Rufus - Henchman in Hawaii
- Boom Town as Venezuelan Officer (uncredited)
- They Knew What They Wanted as Tony's Pal at Table (uncredited)
- He Stayed for Breakfast as Gendarme
- Arise, My Love as Uniformed Clerk (uncredited)
- The Marines Fly High as Pedro Fernandez
- Dark Streets of Cairo as Ahmend, waiter-thug
- Primrose Path as Bluebell Manager (uncredited)
- Phantom Raiders as Policeman at Morris' Office & at Finale
1939
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
- Beau Geste as Corporal Golas (uncredited)
- Union Pacific as Canadian Pacific Conductor (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