poster movie

Nestor Paiva

1905-06-30

The 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.

Nestor Paiva in

Movies

poster movie

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

7.3 average rating
poster movie

Creature from the Black Lagoon

6.827 average rating
poster movie

Santa Fe Trail

5.712 average rating
poster movie

Salome, Where She Danced

3.7 average rating
poster movie

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

6.976 average rating
poster movie

Mighty Joe Young

6.4 average rating
poster movie

The Sea Hawk

7.099 average rating
poster movie

The Inspector General

6.5 average rating
poster movie

Joan of Arc

6.1 average rating
poster movie

The Southerner

6.5 average rating
poster movie

Les Girls

6.415 average rating
poster movie

The Left Handed Gun

6.1 average rating
poster movie

Casanova's Big Night

6.1 average rating
poster movie

Revenge of the Creature

5.6 average rating
poster movie

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

6.3 average rating
poster movie

Union Pacific

6.5 average rating
poster movie

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

5.2 average rating
poster movie

Alias Jesse James

5.846 average rating
poster movie

Hold Back the Dawn

6.7 average rating
poster movie

Ramrod

6.5 average rating