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Nestor Paiva
Fresno, California, USA
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 Zor…
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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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1968
They Saved Hitler's Brain
Movie Police Chief Alaniz
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1967
The Spirit Is Willing
Movie Felicity's Father
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1966
Let's Kill Uncle
Movie Steward
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1966
Family Affair
TV show
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1966
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Movie Saloon Owner
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1965
Get Smart
TV show Doorman
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1964
Daniel Boone
TV show Menewa
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1964
The Addams Family
TV show Captain Grimby
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1964
The Ballad of a Gunfighter
Movie Padre
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1963
The Madmen of Mandoras
Movie Police Chief Alaniz
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1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV show Fisherman
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1963
The Bill Dana Show
TV show
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Padre Emiliano
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1963
California
Movie Gen. Micheltorena
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1962
The Lucy Show
TV show Perkins
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show Auctioneer
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Charley Sanchez
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1962
The Three Stooges in Orbit
Movie Chairman
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1962
The Wild Westerners
Movie John Bullard
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1962
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Movie Miguel
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1961
Target: The Corruptors!
TV show
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1961
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Movie Megalos (uncredited)
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1961
Gold of the Seven Saints
Movie Gondora Henchman
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1961
Frontier Uprising
Movie Don Carlos Montalvo
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1960
The Andy Griffith Show
TV show Big Jack Anderson
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1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV show Joe
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1960
Can-Can
Movie Bailiff
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1960
Johnny Midnight
TV show
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1959
The Purple Gang
Movie Orlofsky
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1959
Vice Raid
Movie Mob Boss Frank Burke
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1959
Pier 5, Havana
Movie Lopez
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1959
Wichita Town
TV show
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1959
Bonanza
TV show Francisco Tenino
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1959
Tightrope
TV show
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1959
Alias Jesse James
Movie Grigsby (uncredited)
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1959
Rawhide
TV show Hagerty
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1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV show
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1958
Lawman
TV show
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1958
Behind Closed Doors
TV show
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1958
The Texan
TV show
