Nestor Paiva
Born June 30, 1905 (Age: 120)
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Fresno, California, USA
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 (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.
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Filmography
The Ballad of a Gunfighter
1964
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as Padre
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Age: 58
The Madmen of Mandoras
1963
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as Police Chief Alaniz
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Age: 58
California
1963
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as Gen. Micheltorena
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Age: 57
The Three Stooges in Orbit
1962
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as Chairman
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Age: 57
The Wild Westerners
1962
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as John Bullard
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Age: 56
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962
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as Miguel
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Age: 56
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
1961
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as Megalos (uncredited)
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Age: 55
Gold of the Seven Saints
1961
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as Gondora Henchman
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Age: 55
Frontier Uprising
1961
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as Don Carlos Montalvo
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Age: 55
Can-Can
1960
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as Bailiff
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Age: 54
The Purple Gang
1959
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as Orlofsky
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Age: 54
Vice Raid
1959
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as Mob Boss Frank Burke
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Age: 54
Pier 5, Havana
1959
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as Lopez
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Age: 54
Alias Jesse James
1959
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as Grigsby (uncredited)
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Age: 53
The Case Against Brooklyn
1958
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as Finelli
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Age: 52
The Left Handed Gun
1958
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as Pete Maxwell
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Age: 52
The Lady Takes a Flyer
1958
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as Childreth
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Age: 52
The Deep Six
1958
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as Pappa Tatos
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Age: 52
Outcasts of the City
1958
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as Pastor Skira
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Age: 52
The Wild Party
1956
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as Branson
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Age: 51
Ride The High Iron
1956
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as Yard Boss
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Age: 51
The Mole People
1956
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as Prof. Etienne Lafarge
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Age: 51
Scandal Incorporated
1956
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as Leland Miller, tabloid publisher
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Age: 51
The First Texan
1956
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as Priest (uncredited)
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Age: 50
Comanche
1956
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as Puffer
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Age: 50
Menace from Outer Space
1956
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as Prof. Cardos
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Age: 50
Hell on Frisco Bay
1955
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as Louis Fiaschetti
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Age: 50
Tarantula
1955
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as Sheriff Jack Andrews
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Age: 50
All That Heaven Allows
1955
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as Manuel
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Age: 50
New York Confidential
1955
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as Martinelli
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Age: 49
Revenge of the Creature
1955
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as Captain Lucas
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Age: 49
Four Guns to the Border
1954
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as Greasy
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Age: 49
Thunder Pass
1954
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as Daniel Slaughter
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Age: 49
The Desperado
1954
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as Captain Jake Thornton
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Age: 48
Moby Dick
1954
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as Capt. Peleg
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Age: 48
Casanova's Big Night
1954
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as Gnocchi
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Age: 48
Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954
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as Captain Lucas
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Age: 48
Anything Goes
1954
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as Dr. Henry T. Dobson
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Age: 48
Jivaro
1954
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as Jacques
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Age: 48
Killer Ape
1953
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as Andrews
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Age: 48
Prisoners of the Casbah
1953
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as Marouf
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Age: 48
I, the Jury
1953
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as Manuel
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Age: 48
The Bandits of Corsica
1953
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as Lorenzo
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Age: 47
The Desert Hawk
1950
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as Abdul
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Age: 45
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
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as Deputy Sheriff Gomez
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Age: 44
Young Man with a Horn
1950
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as Louis Galba
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Age: 44
Cornered
1945
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as Police Official (uncredited)
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Age: 40
Sensation Hunters
1945
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as Lew Davis
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Age: 40
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
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as Janza
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Age: 40
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
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as Kahim
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Age: 40
Nob Hill
1945
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as Luigi
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Age: 39
The Southerner
1945
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as Bartender
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Age: 39
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
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as Panatela
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Age: 39
A Medal for Benny
1945
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as Frank Alviso (uncredited)
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Age: 39
Pittsburgh
1942
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as Barney, Cafe Proprietor
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Age: 37
American Empire
1942
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as Defense Attorney
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Age: 37
Road to Morocco
1942
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as Sausage Vendor (uncredited)
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Age: 37
For Me and My Gal
1942
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as Nick (uncredited)
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Age: 37
King of the Mounties
1942
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as Count Baroni
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Age: 37
Timber!
1942
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as Jules Fabian
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Age: 37
Broadway
1942
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as Rinelti
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Age: 36
The Girl from Alaska
1942
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as Geroux
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Age: 36
The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942
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as
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Age: 36
The Lady Has Plans
1942
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as Portuguese Porter (uncredited)
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Age: 36
Fly By Night
1942
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as Grube
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Age: 36
Johnny Eager
1941
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as Tony Luce (uncredited)
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Age: 36
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
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as Flores
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Age: 36
Hold That Ghost
1941
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as Glum (uncredited)
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Age: 36
Pot o' Gold
1941
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as Canadian Guide (uncredited)
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Age: 35
Meet Boston Blackie
1941
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as Martin Vestrick (uncredited)
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Age: 35