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
- Burke's Law as Padre Emiliano
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Fisherman
- The Bill Dana Show
- The Madmen of Mandoras as Police Chief Alaniz
- California as Gen. Micheltorena
1962
- The Virginian as Charley Sanchez
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Auctioneer
- 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
- Pier 5, Havana as Lopez
- The Purple Gang as Orlofsky
1958
- Lawman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Mexican Policeman (uncredited)
- 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
- 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 Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Hey, Jeannie! as Gino
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
- The Mole People as Prof. Etienne Lafarge
- On Trial as Bruno
- Comanche as Puffer
- The First Texan as Priest (uncredited)
- The Wild Party as Branson
- Ride The High Iron as Yard Boss
- Menace from Outer Space as Prof. Cardos
- Scandal Incorporated as Leland Miller, tabloid publisher
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
- Tarantula as Sheriff Jack Andrews
- New York Confidential as Martinelli
- Hell on Frisco Bay as Louis Fiaschetti
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
- Casanova's Big Night as Gnocchi
- Jivaro as Jacques
- The Desperado as Captain Jake Thornton
- Anything Goes as Dr. Henry T. Dobson
- Thunder Pass as Daniel Slaughter
- Moby Dick as Capt. Peleg
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Victor Russo
- General Electric Theater as Perino
- I'm the Law
- I, the Jury as Manuel
- The Bandits of Corsica as Lorenzo
- Prisoners of the Casbah as Marouf
- 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
- South Pacific Trail as Carlos Alvarez
- The Fabulous Senorita as José Rodriguez
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Spike - Gang Member
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Captain Peleg
- The Great Caruso as Egisto Barretto
- Jim Thorpe – All-American
- Double Dynamite as 'Hot Horse' Harris, the Bookie
- 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
- I Was a Shoplifter as Deputy Sheriff Gomez
- Young Man with a Horn as Louis Galba
- The Desert Hawk as Abdul
1949
- Mighty Joe Young as Brown
- Alias Nick Beal as Karl
- The Inspector General as Gregor (uncredited)
- Follow Me Quietly as Benny
- Señor Droopy as Bullfight Attender (voice) (uncredited)
- Bride of Vengeance as Mayor
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
- Adventures of Casanova as Prefecture Police
- Angels' Alley as Tony 'Piggy' Locarno
- Mr. Reckless as Gus
1947
- Humoresque as Orchestra Leader
- Road to Rio as Cardoso
- Ramrod as Curley
- The Trouble with Women as 2nd Tony - the Waiter (uncredited)
- Shoot to Kill as Gus Miller
- A Likely Story as Tiny
- Carnival in Costa Rica as Padre Rafael
- Robin Hood of Monterey as The Alcalde
- The Lone Wolf in Mexico as Police Capt. Carlos Rodriguez
1946
- Road to Utopia as McGurk
- Badman's Territory as Sam Bass
- The Last Crooked Mile as Ferrara
- Fear as Detective Shaefer
- The Well Groomed Bride as Fernandez
1945
- The Southerner as Bartender
- Cornered as Police Official (uncredited)
- Salome, Where She Danced as Panatela
- A Thousand and One Nights as Kahim
- A Medal for Benny as Frank Alviso (uncredited)
- Nob Hill as Luigi
- Sensation Hunters as Lew Davis
- Along the Navajo Trail as Janza
1944
- Shine on Harvest Moon as Romero (uncredited)
- The Falcon in Mexico as Manuel Romero
1943
- The Hard Way as Max Wade (Uncredited)
- The Flying Jalopy as Ben Buzzard (voice) (uncredited)
- The Dancing Masters as Silvio - Ringleader (uncredited)
- Don Winslow of the Coast Guard as The Scorpion
- Background to Danger as Koylan
- Tornado as Big Joe Vlochek
- True to Life as Kapopolis (uncredited)
- The Desert Song as Benoit
- Rhythm of the Islands as Chief Nataro
1942
- Road to Morocco as Sausage Vendor (uncredited)
- For Me and My Gal as Nick (uncredited)
- American Empire as Defense Attorney
- The Lady Has Plans as Portuguese Porter (uncredited)
- Timber! as Jules Fabian
- Broadway as Rinelti
- Pittsburgh as Barney, Cafe Proprietor
- Fly By Night as Grube
- The Adventures of Martin Eden
- The Girl from Alaska as Geroux
- King of the Mounties as Count Baroni
1941
- Hold That Ghost as Glum
- Pot o' Gold as Canadian Guide (uncredited)
- Hold Back the Dawn as Flores
- Johnny Eager as Tony Luce (uncredited)
- Meet Boston Blackie as Martin Vestrick (uncredited)
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)
- The Sea Hawk as First Slavemaster
- North West Mounted Police as Half-breed
- Boom Town as Venezuelan Officer (uncredited)
- The Green Hornet Strikes Again! as Rufus - Henchman in Hawaii
- Arise, My Love as Uniformed Clerk (uncredited)
- They Knew What They Wanted as Tony's Pal at Table (uncredited)
- He Stayed for Breakfast as Gendarme
- Phantom Raiders as Policeman at Morris' Office & at Finale
- Primrose Path as Bluebell Manager (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)
- Another Thin Man as West Indies Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
- Beau Geste as Corporal Golas (uncredited)
- Midnight as Woman's Escort (uncredited)
- Unseen Guardians as Mail Order Crook
1938
- Prison Train as Morose