
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.

Lopez
Pier 5, Havana

Captain Lucas
Creature from the Black Lagoon

2nd Tony - the Waiter (uncredited)
The Trouble with Women

Detective Shaefer
Fear

Benny
Follow Me Quietly

Joe Appollonio
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Sheriff Jack Andrews
Tarantula

Karl
Alias Nick Beal

Mob Boss Frank Burke
Vice Raid

Deputy Sheriff Gomez
I Was a Shoplifter

Egisto Barretto
The Great Caruso

Chairman
The Three Stooges in Orbit

Louis Galba
Young Man with a Horn

Captain Lucas
Revenge of the Creature

Megalos (uncredited)
Atlantis: The Lost Continent

Prof. Etienne Lafarge
The Mole People

McGurk
Road to Utopia

Martinelli
New York Confidential

Steward
Let's Kill Uncle

Felicity's Father
The Spirit Is Willing

Manuel
All That Heaven Allows

Curley
Ramrod

Manuel
I, the Jury

Spanish Peasant (uncredited)
Les Girls

Barney, Cafe Proprietor
Pittsburgh

Finelli
The Case Against Brooklyn

Leland Miller, tabloid publisher
Scandal Incorporated

Manuel Romero
The Falcon in Mexico

Brown
Mighty Joe Young

Flores
Hold Back the Dawn

Ferrara
The Last Crooked Mile

Gus Miller
Shoot to Kill

Louis Fiaschetti
Hell on Frisco Bay

'Hot Horse' Harris, the Bookie
Double Dynamite

Padre
The Ballad of a Gunfighter

Police Chief Alaniz
The Madmen of Mandoras

Priest (uncredited)
The First Texan

Rinelti
Broadway

Tony 'Piggy' Locarno
Angels' Alley

Puffer
Comanche

Lorenzo
The Bandits of Corsica

Childreth
The Lady Takes a Flyer

Jacques
Jivaro

Andrews
Killer Ape

Joe Octavian
Flame Of Stamboul

Branson
The Wild Party

Martin Vestrick (uncredited)
Meet Boston Blackie

Tony Luce (uncredited)
Johnny Eager

Ben Buzzard (voice) (uncredited)
The Flying Jalopy

Benoit
The Desert Song

Big Joe Vlochek
Tornado

Police Chief Alaniz
They Saved Hitler's Brain

José Rodriguez
The Fabulous Senorita

Padre Rafael
Carnival in Costa Rica

Greasy
Four Guns to the Border

Luigi
Nob Hill

Gus
Mr. Reckless

Saloon Owner
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Yard Boss
Ride The High Iron

Gnocchi
Casanova's Big Night

Prefecture Police
Adventures of Casanova

Carlos Alvarez
South Pacific Trail

Pedro Fernandez
The Marines Fly High

Orlofsky
The Purple Gang

Marouf
Prisoners of the Casbah

Canadian Guide (uncredited)
Pot o' Gold

Frank Alviso (uncredited)
A Medal for Benny

Herod Antipas
The Living Bible

Woman's Escort (uncredited)
Midnight

Canadian Pacific Conductor (uncredited)
Union Pacific

West Indies Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
Another Thin Man

Corporal Golas (uncredited)
Beau Geste

Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Phone Call from a Stranger

Max Wade (Uncredited)
The Hard Way

Mayor
Bride of Vengeance

Janza
Along the Navajo Trail

5 Fingers

Lew Davis
Sensation Hunters

Grube
Fly By Night

New General (uncredited)
Viva Zapata!

Rufus - Henchman in Hawaii
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

Tortilla
The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Bartender
The Southerner

Mr. Rapello
A Millionaire for Christy

Pastor Skira
Outcasts of the City

Captain Jake Thornton
The Desperado

Tiny
A Likely Story

Chief Nataro
Rhythm of the Islands

Police Capt. Carlos Rodriguez
The Lone Wolf in Mexico

Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)
Santa Fe Trail

Venezuelan Officer (uncredited)
Boom Town

Silvio - Ringleader (uncredited)
The Dancing Masters

Cardoso
Road to Rio

Half-breed
North West Mounted Police

Panatela
Salome, Where She Danced

First Slavemaster
The Sea Hawk

Bailiff
Can-Can

Uniformed Clerk (Uncredited)
Arise, My Love

Policeman at Morris' Office & at Finale
Phantom Raiders

Tony's Pal at Table (uncredited)
They Knew What They Wanted

Bluebell Manager (uncredited)
Primrose Path

Gendarme
He Stayed for Breakfast

Ahmend, waiter-thug
Dark Streets of Cairo

Gondora Henchman
Gold of the Seven Saints

Mail Order Crook
Unseen Guardians

Captain Van Hoten (uncredited)
Mara Maru

Portuguese Porter (uncredited)
The Lady Has Plans

Manuel
The Lady Pays Off

Abdul
The Desert Hawk

Count Baroni
King of the Mounties

The Alcalde
Robin Hood of Monterey

Defense Attorney
American Empire

Daniel Slaughter
Thunder Pass

Don Carlos Montalvo
Frontier Uprising

John Bullard
The Wild Westerners

Gen. Micheltorena
California

Glum (uncredited)
Hold That Ghost

Orchestra Leader
Humoresque

Kahim
A Thousand and One Nights

Patient #2
The Paleface

Fernandez
The Well Groomed Bride

The Scorpion
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

Koylan
Background to Danger

Bullfight Attender (voice) (uncredited)
Señor Droopy

Kapopolis (uncredited)
True to Life

Gregor (uncredited)
The Inspector General

Sausage Vendor (uncredited)
Road to Morocco

Grigsby (uncredited)
Alias Jesse James

Sam Bass
Badman's Territory

Geroux
The Girl from Alaska

Police Official (uncredited)
Cornered

Dr. Henry T. Dobson
Anything Goes

Prof. Cardos
Menace from Outer Space

Morose
Prison Train

The Adventures of Martin Eden

Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband
Joan of Arc

Miguel
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Jules Fabian
Timber!

Alfredo - the Jeweler (uncredited)
Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Nick (uncredited)
For Me and My Gal

Pete Maxwell
The Left Handed Gun

Capt. Peleg
Moby Dick

April in Paris

Pappa Tatos
The Deep Six

Romero (uncredited)
Shine on Harvest Moon
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
146
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-06-30
Place of Birth
Fresno, California, USA
Also Known As
Nestor Caetano Paiva