Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1905-06-30
Day of Death
1966-09-09
Place of Birth
Fresno, California, USA
Nestor 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.
Filmography (147)
They Saved Hitler's Brain
1968
The Spirit Is Willing
1967
Let's Kill Uncle
1966
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966
The Ballad of a Gunfighter
1964
The Madmen of Mandoras
1963
California
1963
The Three Stooges in Orbit
1962
The Wild Westerners
1962
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
1961
Gold of the Seven Saints
1961
Frontier Uprising
1961
Can-Can
1960
