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.
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| 1 | Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966) | Saloon Owner | - | - |
| 2 | The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) | Chairman | 1 | |
| 3 | Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961) | Megalos (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 4 | Vice Raid (1959) | Mob Boss Frank Burke | - | - |
| 5 | The Left Handed Gun (1958) | Pete Maxwell | 6.2 | |
| 6 | Les Girls (1957) | Spanish Peasant (uncredited) | 4 | |
| 7 | The Mole People (1956) | Prof. Etienne Lafarge | 3.5 | |
| 8 | New York Confidential (1955) | Martinelli | 5 | |
| 9 | All That Heaven Allows (1955) | Manuel | 7.5 | |
| 10 | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | Captain Lucas | 5.5 | |
| 11 | Tarantula (1955) | Sheriff Jack Andrews | 6.7 | |
| 12 | The Desperado (1954) | Captain Jake Thornton | - | - |
| 13 | Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Captain Lucas | 6.8 | |
| 14 | I, the Jury (1953) | Manuel | 5 | |
| 15 | Viva Zapata! (1952) | New General (uncredited) | 5.5 | |
| 16 | 5 Fingers (1952) | - | 5 | |
| 17 | The Great Caruso (1951) | Egisto Barretto | - | - |
| 18 | Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951) | - | 7 | |
| 19 | Young Man with a Horn (1950) | Louis Galba | - | - |
| 20 | Follow Me Quietly (1949) | Benny | 6 | |
| 21 | The Inspector General (1949) | Gregor (uncredited) | 8 | |
| 22 | Alias Nick Beal (1949) | Karl | 5 | |
| 23 | Mighty Joe Young (1949) | Brown | 7 | |
| 24 | The Paleface (1948) | Patient #2 | 4 | |
| 25 | Joan of Arc (1948) | Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband | 4 | |
| 26 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) | Joe Appollonio | 7 | |
| 27 | Humoresque (1947) | Orchestra Leader | 5 | |
| 28 | Ramrod (1947) | Curley | 6 | |
| 29 | Shoot to Kill (1947) | Gus Miller | 4 | |
| 30 | Fear (1946) | Detective Shaefer | 3 | |
| 31 | Road to Utopia (1946) | McGurk | 6.5 | |
| 32 | A Medal for Benny (1945) | Frank Alviso (uncredited) | - | - |
| 33 | Cornered (1945) | Police Official (uncredited) | 4 | |
| 34 | The Southerner (1945) | Bartender | 5 | |
| 35 | The Hard Way (1943) | Max Wade (Uncredited) | 5 | |
| 36 | Road to Morocco (1942) | Sausage Vendor (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
| 37 | American Empire (1942) | Defense Attorney | - | - |
| 38 | For Me and My Gal (1942) | Nick (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 39 | Hold That Ghost (1941) | Glum | 6.6 | |
| 40 | Hold Back the Dawn (1941) | Flores | 5 | |
| 41 | Johnny Eager (1941) | Tony Luce (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 42 | Arise, My Love (1940) | Uniformed Clerk (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 43 | The Sea Hawk (1940) | First Slavemaster | 6.5 | |
| 44 | North West Mounted Police (1940) | Half-breed | - | - |
| 45 | Midnight (1939) | Woman's Escort (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
| 46 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) | Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 47 | Another Thin Man (1939) | West Indies Club Headwaiter (uncredited) | 9 | |
| 48 | Union Pacific (1939) | Canadian Pacific Conductor (uncredited) | 7 |
