
Nestor Paiva
Born June 30, 1905 · Fresno, California, USA
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Creature from the Black Lagoon

The Flying Jalopy

Mighty Joe Young

The Sea Hawk

All That Heaven Allows

Joan of Arc

Young Man with a Horn

Viva Zapata!

The Left Handed Gun

Vice Raid

Hell on Frisco Bay

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

North West Mounted Police

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Great Caruso

Revenge of the Creature

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

Santa Fe Trail

Alias Jesse James

Hold That Ghost

Union Pacific

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Casanova's Big Night

Phone Call from a Stranger

Tarantula

Another Thin Man

The Paleface

Double Dynamite

For Me and My Gal

Four Guns to the Border

5 Fingers

The Lady Has Plans

Hold Back the Dawn

Salome, Where She Danced

A Thousand and One Nights

The Spirit Is Willing

Jim Thorpe – All-American

Beau Geste

The Three Stooges in Orbit

The Mole People

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Primrose Path

The Inspector General

Road to Morocco

Gold of the Seven Saints

The Desert Hawk

Can-Can

Ride The High Iron
TV Shows

Have Gun, Will Travel

Maverick

Climax!

Four Star Playhouse

The Virginian

Lassie

The Red Skelton Show

Cheyenne

Daniel Boone

The Lucy Show

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Beverly Hillbillies

Rawhide

Burke's Law

Gunsmoke

Lawman

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Zorro

The Texan

Sugarfoot

Family Affair

The Addams Family

Sea Hunt

The Millionaire

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Public Defender

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Telephone Time

December Bride

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Cavalcade of America

Alcoa Theatre

Target: The Corruptors!

Tightrope

Behind Closed Doors

Dangerous Assignment

Letter to Loretta

The Count of Monte Cristo

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

Hey, Jeannie!

Wichita Town

The Bill Dana Show

Johnny Midnight

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

China Smith

I'm the Law

Whirlybirds

General Electric Theater
More Movies

Boom Town

Humoresque

I Was a Shoplifter

The Lady Pays Off

Comanche

The Bandits of Corsica

Along the Navajo Trail

Shine on Harvest Moon

Road to Utopia

Let's Kill Uncle

King of the Mounties

Midnight

Arise, My Love

The First Texan

Badman's Territory

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

They Knew What They Wanted

The Case Against Brooklyn

The Last Crooked Mile

A Millionaire for Christy

Menace from Outer Space

Les Girls

I, the Jury

The Southerner

Carnival in Costa Rica

The Lady Takes a Flyer

Johnny Eager

A Medal for Benny

Alias Nick Beal

The Trouble with Women

Prisoners of the Casbah

Ramrod

The Falcon in Mexico

Dark Streets of Cairo

The Well Groomed Bride

Rhythm of the Islands

Fear

The Deep Six

He Stayed for Breakfast

New York Confidential

Background to Danger

Outcasts of the City

True to Life

The Dancing Masters

The Adventures of Martin Eden

Road to Rio

They Saved Hitler's Brain

The Marines Fly High

A Likely Story

The Purple Gang

Follow Me Quietly

The Hard Way

April in Paris

The Wild Party

Pot o' Gold

The Desert Song

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

Robin Hood of Monterey

Cornered

The Desperado

The Living Bible

Broadway

Moby Dick

The Madmen of Mandoras

The Girl from Alaska

Pittsburgh

American Empire

Phantom Raiders

Fly By Night

Scandal Incorporated

Mara Maru

Bride of Vengeance

The Lone Wolf in Mexico

Thunder Pass

The Wild Westerners

Frontier Uprising

Tornado

Angels' Alley

Jivaro

Shoot to Kill

Señor Droopy

The Fabulous Senorita

Adventures of Casanova

Nob Hill

Anything Goes

The Ballad of a Gunfighter

California

Mr. Reckless

South Pacific Trail

Timber!

Pier 5, Havana

Killer Ape

Sensation Hunters

Flame Of Stamboul

Meet Boston Blackie

Prison Train




