Cast
Nestor Paiva
Acting
Cast
Nestor Paiva
Known for
Acting
Born
1905-06-30
From
Fresno, California, USA
Died
1966-09-09
Also known as Nestor Caetano 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nestor Paiva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
★7.3
MOVIE1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1959
Vice Raid
as Mob Boss Frank Burke
★6.8
MOVIE1954
Creature from the Black Lagoon
as Captain Lucas
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Double Dynamite
as 'Hot Horse' Harris, the Bookie
★6.0
MOVIE1956
Scandal Incorporated
as Leland Miller, tabloid publisher
★10.0
MOVIE1956
Ride The High Iron
as Yard Boss
★5.2
MOVIE1956
Comanche
as Puffer
★6.4
MOVIE1949
Mighty Joe Young
as Brown
★6.9
MOVIE1952
Viva Zapata!
as New General (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1940
A Volta do Besouro Verde
as Rufus - Henchman in Hawaii
★7.3
MOVIE1955
All That Heaven Allows
as Manuel
★5.6
MOVIE1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
as Alfredo - the Jeweler (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1948
Joan of Arc
as Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband
★6.3
MOVIE1940
Arise, My Love
as Uniformed Clerk (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1940
Santa Fe Trail
as Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1952
5 Fingers
★6.1
MOVIE1954
Casanova's Big Night
as Gnocchi
★6.8
MOVIE1941
Hold That Ghost
as Glum
★6.7
MOVIE1939
Union Pacific
as Canadian Pacific Conductor (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1949
Follow Me Quietly
as Benny
★5.5
MOVIE1943
Rhythm of the Islands
as Chief Nataro
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Jim Thorpe – All-American
★6.4
MOVIE1940
North West Mounted Police
as Half-breed
★5.2
MOVIE1956
The Mole People
as Prof. Etienne Lafarge
★6.7
MOVIE1940
Primrose Path
as Bluebell Manager (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Beau Geste
as Corporal Golas (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Tortilla
★6.3
MOVIE1943
The Dancing Masters
as Silvio - Ringleader (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1952
Phone Call from a Stranger
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Joe Appollonio
★5.4
MOVIE1949
Bride of Vengeance
as Mayor
★7.2
MOVIE1961
Gold of the Seven Saints
as Gondora Henchman
★5.1
MOVIE1961
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
as Megalos (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Outcasts of the City
as Pastor Skira
★7.1
MOVIE1939
Another Thin Man
as West Indies Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1945
Along the Navajo Trail
as Janza
★6.6
MOVIE1949
The Inspector General
as Gregor (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1955
Revenge of the Creature
as Captain Lucas
★5.9
MOVIE1951
The Great Caruso
as Egisto Barretto
★6.0
MOVIE1962
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Miguel
★4.6
MOVIE1946
Fear
as Detective Shaefer
★6.4
MOVIE1950
Young Man with a Horn
as Louis Galba
★5.3
MOVIE1955
Hell on Frisco Bay
as Louis Fiaschetti
★7.4
MOVIE1939
Midnight
as Woman's Escort (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1956
The Wild Party
as Branson
★6.1
MOVIE1948
The Paleface
as Patient #2
★6.6
MOVIE1943
The Flying Jalopy
as Ben Buzzard (voice) (uncredited)
★5.2
MOVIE1954
Jivaro
as Jacques
★9.0
MOVIE1954
Moby Dick
as Capt. Peleg
★6.0
MOVIE1958
The Left Handed Gun
as Pete Maxwell
★6.5
MOVIE1954
Thunder Pass
as Daniel Slaughter
★6.1
MOVIE1945
A Thousand and One Nights
as Kahim
★6.5
MOVIE1955
Tarantula
as Sheriff Jack Andrews
★5.2
MOVIE1952
Mara Maru
as Captain Van Hoten (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Ramrod
as Curley
★8.0
MOVIE1943
True to Life
as Kapopolis (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1943
The Hard Way
as Max Wade (Uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1941
Johnny Eager
as Tony Luce (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1957
Les Girls
as Spanish Peasant (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1955
New York Confidential
as Martinelli
★5.1
MOVIE1959
Pier 5, Havana
as Lopez
★5.7
MOVIE1946
The Well Groomed Bride
as Fernandez
★6.2
MOVIE1945
Cornered
as Police Official (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1958
The Deep Six
as Pappa Tatos
★5.0
MOVIE1942
American Empire
as Defense Attorney
★6.0
MOVIE1952
The Living Bible
as Herod Antipas
★6.8
MOVIE1947
Road to Rio
as Cardoso
★6.0
MOVIE1959
Alias Jesse James
as Grigsby (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1940
The Sea Hawk
as First Slavemaster
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Boom Town
as Venezuelan Officer (uncredited)
★4.4
MOVIE1958
The Lady Takes a Flyer
as Childreth
★6.0
MOVIE1942
The Lady Has Plans
as Portuguese Porter (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1956
The First Texan
as Priest (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1946
Badman's Territory
as Sam Bass
★5.1
MOVIE1962
The Three Stooges in Orbit
as Chairman
★7.5
MOVIE1951
The Lady Pays Off
as Manuel
★4.1
MOVIE1945
Salome, Where She Danced
as Panatela
★6.4
MOVIE1953
The Bandits of Corsica
as Lorenzo
★5.5
MOVIE1946
The Last Crooked Mile
as Ferrara
★5.0
MOVIE1954
Four Guns to the Border
as Greasy
★6.7
MOVIE1943
Background to Danger
as Koylan
★8.0
MOVIE1952
South Pacific Trail
as Carlos Alvarez
★6.7
MOVIE1960
Can-Can
as Bailiff
★6.1
MOVIE1940
Phantom Raiders
as Policeman at Morris' Office & at Finale
★7.2
MOVIE1954
The Desperado
as Captain Jake Thornton
★6.5
MOVIE1942
For Me and My Gal
as Nick (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Meet Boston Blackie
as Martin Vestrick (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1940
They Knew What They Wanted
as Tony's Pal at Table (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1950
I Was a Shoplifter
as Deputy Sheriff Gomez
★4.3
MOVIE1966
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
as Saloon Owner
★8.0
MOVIE1940
He Stayed for Breakfast
as Gendarme
★5.5
MOVIE1966
Let's Kill Uncle
as Steward
★5.7
MOVIE1953
Prisoners of the Casbah
as Marouf
★6.7
MOVIE1946
Road to Utopia
as McGurk
★8.0
MOVIE1942
The Adventures of Martin Eden
★8.0
MOVIE1942
King of the Mounties
as Count Baroni
★6.7
MOVIE1941
Hold Back the Dawn
as Flores
★6.8
MOVIE1949
Señor Droopy
as Bullfight Attender (voice) (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1967
The Spirit Is Willing
as Felicity's Father
★5.6
MOVIE1945
A Medal for Benny
as Frank Alviso (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1942
Timber!
as Jules Fabian
★6.6
MOVIE1945
The Southerner
as Bartender
★4.8
MOVIE1947
A Likely Story
as Tiny
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Pittsburgh
as Barney, Cafe Proprietor
★5.9
MOVIE1953
I, the Jury
as Manuel
★4.0
MOVIE1956
Menace from Outer Space
as Prof. Cardos
★6.9
MOVIE1942
Road to Morocco
as Sausage Vendor (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1949
Alias Nick Beal
as Karl
★6.4
MOVIE1954
Anything Goes
as Dr. Henry T. Dobson
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Broadway
as Rinelti
★4.9
MOVIE1947
Shoot to Kill
as Gus Miller
★7.0
MOVIE1947
Carnival in Costa Rica
as Padre Rafael
★5.7
MOVIE1941
Pot o' Gold
as Canadian Guide (uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1950
The Desert Hawk
as Abdul
★8.0
MOVIE1942
The Girl from Alaska
as Geroux
★6.5
MOVIE1952
The Fabulous Senorita
as José Rodriguez
★4.9
MOVIE1952
April in Paris
★6.3
MOVIE1948
Adventures of Casanova
as Prefecture Police
★5.3
MOVIE1951
Flame Of Stamboul
as Joe Octavian
★5.5
MOVIE1944
The Falcon in Mexico
as Manuel Romero
★6.7
MOVIE1942
Fly By Night
as Grube
★6.1
MOVIE1958
The Case Against Brooklyn
as Finelli
★6.1
MOVIE1947
Robin Hood of Monterey
as The Alcalde
★6.0
MOVIE1947
The Lone Wolf in Mexico
as Police Capt. Carlos Rodriguez
★7.3
MOVIE1938
Prison Train
as Morose
★7.0
MOVIE1947
Humoresque
as Orchestra Leader
★7.0
MOVIE1951
A Millionaire for Christy
as Mr. Rapello
★5.4
MOVIE1953
Killer Ape
as Andrews
★7.5
MOVIE1940
Dark Streets of Cairo
as Ahmend, waiter-thug
★5.4
MOVIE1961
Frontier Uprising
as Don Carlos Montalvo
★4.8
MOVIE1945
Sensation Hunters
as Lew Davis
★2.9
MOVIE1968
They Saved Hitler's Brain
as Police Chief Alaniz
★5.2
MOVIE1948
Angels' Alley
as Tony 'Piggy' Locarno
★5.3
MOVIE1940
The Marines Fly High
as Pedro Fernandez
★5.0
MOVIE1948
Mr. Reckless
as Gus
★9.5
MOVIE1947
The Trouble with Women
as 2nd Tony - the Waiter (uncredited)
★3.4
MOVIE1963
The Madmen of Mandoras
as Police Chief Alaniz
★6.8
MOVIE1944
Shine on Harvest Moon
as Romero (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Tornado
as Big Joe Vlochek
★6.8
MOVIE1959
The Purple Gang
as Orlofsky
★7.2
MOVIE1962
The Wild Westerners
as John Bullard
★5.0
MOVIE1964
The Ballad of a Gunfighter
as Padre
★6.3
MOVIE1945
Nob Hill
as Luigi
★6.0
MOVIE1943
The Desert Song
as Benoit
★5.0
MOVIE1963
California
as Gen. Micheltorena
★10.0
MOVIE1943
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
as The Scorpion
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Unseen Guardians
as Mail Order Crook