Nestor Paiva

Nestor Paiva

Birthday: 1905-06-30

Deathday: 1966-09-09

Place of birth: Fresno, California, USA

Also known as: Nestor Caetano Paiva

imdb_id: nm0656980

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.

Played in movies:

5 Fingers

Score: 7.6

All That Heaven Allows

Score: 7.3

Midnight

Score: 7.3

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Score: 7.3

Humoresque

Score: 7.1

The Sea Hawk

Score: 7.1

Another Thin Man

Score: 7.1

Gold of the Seven Saints

Score: 7.0

The Wild Westerners

Score: 7.0

The Lady Pays Off

Score: 7.0

Unseen Guardians

Score: 7.0

Beau Geste

Score: 7.0

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Score: 7.0

Boom Town

Score: 6.9

Viva Zapata!

Score: 6.9

Alias Nick Beal

Score: 6.9

Road to Morocco

Score: 6.8

Señor Droopy

Score: 6.8

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Score: 6.8

Hold That Ghost

Score: 6.8

Road to Rio

Score: 6.8

Hold Back the Dawn

Score: 6.7

Road to Utopia

Score: 6.7

Background to Danger

Score: 6.6

Can-Can

Score: 6.6

The Desperado

Score: 6.6

The Hard Way

Score: 6.6

The Flying Jalopy

Score: 6.6

The Inspector General

Score: 6.5

Primrose Path

Score: 6.5

The Southerner

Score: 6.5

Union Pacific

Score: 6.5

Ramrod

Score: 6.5

Tarantula

Score: 6.5

Phone Call from a Stranger

Score: 6.4

Les Girls

Score: 6.4

For Me and My Gal

Score: 6.4

A Millionaire for Christy

Score: 6.4

Fly By Night

Score: 6.4

Mighty Joe Young

Score: 6.4

Arise, My Love

Score: 6.3

North West Mounted Police

Score: 6.3

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Score: 6.3

The Purple Gang

Score: 6.3

Meet Boston Blackie

Score: 6.3

The First Texan

Score: 6.3

Young Man with a Horn

Score: 6.3

Follow Me Quietly

Score: 6.2

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

Score: 6.2

Double Dynamite

Score: 6.2

Pittsburgh

Score: 6.2

Vice Raid

Score: 6.2

Johnny Eager

Score: 6.1

The Paleface

Score: 6.1

The Left Handed Gun

Score: 6.1

Joan of Arc

Score: 6.1

Phantom Raiders

Score: 6.1

Casanova's Big Night

Score: 6.1

Cornered

Score: 6.0

Shine on Harvest Moon

Score: 6.0

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Score: 6.0

The Adventures of Martin Eden

Score: 6.0

Prison Train

Score: 6.0

Anything Goes

Score: 6.0

The Girl from Alaska

Score: 6.0

True to Life

Score: 6.0

Thunder Pass

Score: 6.0

Dark Streets of Cairo

Score: 6.0

The Dancing Masters

Score: 6.0

The Living Bible

Score: 6.0

Carnival in Costa Rica

Score: 6.0

The Fabulous Senorita

Score: 6.0

Robin Hood of Monterey

Score: 5.9

The Desert Song

Score: 5.9

Alias Jesse James

Score: 5.8

The Wild Party

Score: 5.8

The Bandits of Corsica

Score: 5.8

The Case Against Brooklyn

Score: 5.8

New York Confidential

Score: 5.8

A Thousand and One Nights

Score: 5.8

Santa Fe Trail

Score: 5.7

Badman's Territory

Score: 5.7

The Lone Wolf in Mexico

Score: 5.7

Nob Hill

Score: 5.7

I, the Jury

Score: 5.7

The Great Caruso

Score: 5.7

Revenge of the Creature

Score: 5.6

They Knew What They Wanted

Score: 5.6

Pot o' Gold

Score: 5.5

The Marines Fly High

Score: 5.5

Tornado

Score: 5.5

Broadway

Score: 5.5

Let's Kill Uncle

Score: 5.5

The Deep Six

Score: 5.4

Prisoners of the Casbah

Score: 5.4

The Spirit Is Willing

Score: 5.4

The Falcon in Mexico

Score: 5.3

I Was a Shoplifter

Score: 5.3

The Lady Has Plans

Score: 5.2

Hell on Frisco Bay

Score: 5.2

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

Score: 5.2

The Three Stooges in Orbit

Score: 5.2

Jivaro

Score: 5.2

The Last Crooked Mile

Score: 5.1

The Desert Hawk

Score: 5.1

The Mole People

Score: 5.1

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Score: 5.0

Mara Maru

Score: 5.0

Bride of Vengeance

Score: 5.0

Adventures of Casanova

Score: 5.0

Comanche

Score: 5.0

April in Paris

Score: 4.9

Frontier Uprising

Score: 4.8

Sensation Hunters

Score: 4.7

Shoot to Kill

Score: 4.7

Pier 5, Havana

Score: 4.7

Four Guns to the Border

Score: 4.7

A Medal for Benny

Score: 4.5

Mr. Reckless

Score: 4.5

Flame Of Stamboul

Score: 4.5

Fear

Score: 4.5

Killer Ape

Score: 4.3

A Likely Story

Score: 4.2

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Score: 4.1

The Lady Takes a Flyer

Score: 4.1

The Well Groomed Bride

Score: 4.0

Rhythm of the Islands

Score: 4.0

Angels' Alley

Score: 4.0

American Empire

Score: 3.8

Salome, Where She Danced

Score: 3.7

The Ballad of a Gunfighter

Score: 3.5

Menace from Outer Space

Score: 3.3

California

Score: 3.0

The Madmen of Mandoras

Score: 3.0

Scandal Incorporated

Score: 3.0

They Saved Hitler's Brain

Score: 2.2

Moby Dick

Score: 0.0

Timber!

Score: 0.0

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

Score: 0.0

King of the Mounties

Score: 0.0

He Stayed for Breakfast

Score: 0.0

Outcasts of the City

Score: 0.0

Along the Navajo Trail

Score: 0.0

South Pacific Trail

Score: 0.0

Ride The High Iron

Score: 0.0

The Trouble with Women

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Addams Family

Score: 8.0

Get Smart

Score: 7.9

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

The Andy Griffith Show

Score: 7.6

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Zorro

Score: 7.5

Zorro

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

The Lucy Show

Score: 7.0

The Beverly Hillbillies

Score: 6.9

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

Maverick

Score: 6.8

Sea Hunt

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Family Affair

Score: 6.6

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Alcoa Theatre

Score: 6.5

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Telephone Time

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Score: 6.2

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

Lassie

Score: 6.1

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Passport to Danger

Score: 6.0

The Bill Dana Show

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Score: 5.8

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

I'm the Law

Score: 5.7

Lawman

Score: 5.6

Hey, Jeannie!

Score: 5.5

Tightrope

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

December Bride

Score: 5.5

Whirlybirds

Score: 5.4

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

Score: 5.0

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

The Count of Monte Cristo

Score: 4.4

Wichita Town

Score: 4.2

Dangerous Assignment

Score: 3.5

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Target: The Corruptors!

Score: 3.5

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Behind Closed Doors

Score: 0.0

Johnny Midnight

Score: 0.0

China Smith

Score: 0.0