Nestor Paiva

Nestor Paiva

American actor (1905-1966)

Nestor Caetano Paiva was an American stage, radio, film and television actor of Portuguese descent. He performed in over 400 motion pictures either as an extra, a bit player, or as a significant supporting character. He also appears in such roles in a variety of television series produced during the 1950s and early 1960s. Among his notable screen appearances is his recurring role as the innkeeper Teo Gonzales in Walt Disney's late 1950s televised Spanish Western series Zorro, as well as in its adapted theatrical release The Sign of Zorro (1958). Paiva also appears as the boat captain Lucas in the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and in that horror film's sequel Revenge of the Creature (1955).

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 60 films (1938–1966) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 18 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1966 Let's Kill Uncle. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 92 min 35mm Color sound
1966 The Spirit Is Willing. Paramount Pictures Corp. 100 min 35mm Color sound
1962 Girls! Girls! Girls! Norman Taurog 98 min 16mm Color
1962 The Sign Of Zorro Walt Disney Productions. 91 min 16mm B&W sound
1960 Can-Can. Suffolk-Cummings Productions Inc. & Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 131 min Color sound
1958 The Sign Of Zorro. Walt Disney Productions. 91 min 35mm B&W sound
1957 Les Girls Collectors Book Store 1:17 16mm Color
1957 TEN THOUSAND BEDROOMS Richard Thorpe 114 min 16mm Color sound
1957 The Guns Of Fort Petticoat. ▶ Brown-Murphy Pictures Inc. 9 reels 35mm Color sound
1957 The Lady Takes A Flyer. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 94 min. 35mm Color sound
1956 Comanche George Sherman
1956 The mole people. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 78 min. 35mm B&W sound
1955 All That Heaven Allows. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 89 min. 35mm Color sound
1955 Hell On Frisco Bay Frank Tuttle 1600 Color
1955 Revenge Of The Creature. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 82 min. 35mm B&W sound
1955 Tarantula. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 80 min. 35mm B&W sound
1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon Jack Arnold 79 min 16mm B&W sound
1954 Creature From The Black Lagoon. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 79 min. 35mm B&W sound
1954 The desperado. Allied Artists Pictures Corp. 81 min. 35mm B&W sound
1953 Call me Madam Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (Publisher) 1:55:00 16mm Color sound
1953 Call Me Madam. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 118 min 35mm Color sound
1952 Phone Call From a Stranger Jean Negulesco 1:05 B&W
1952 Phone Call From A Stranger. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 96 min. 35mm B&W sound
1951 My Favorite Spy. Paramount Pictures Corp. 93 min. 35mm B&W sound
1951 ON DANGEROUS GROUND. RKO Radio Pictures Inc. 82 min. 35mm B&W sound
1951 The Great Caruso Richard Thorpe 109 min Color
1951 The Great Caruso. Loew's Inc. 109 min 35mm Color sound
1951 The Lady Pays Off. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 80 min. 35mm B&W sound
1950 Rope of Sand ▶ William Dieterle 104 min B&W
1950 Rope of Sand William Dieterle 104 min 16mm B&W
1950 THE DESERT HAWK. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 78 min. 35mm Color sound
1949 Mighty Joe Young. Ernest B. Schoedsack 94 min. 35mm B&W sound
1948 Adventures Of Casanova. Roberto Gavaldón 83 min. 35mm B&W sound
1948 Joan of Arc Victor Fleming 132 min 16mm Color sound
1948 Joan of Arc Victor Fleming 132 min Color
1948 Joan of Arc Victor Fleming 132 min 16mm Color silent
1948 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House H. C. Potter 94 Color & B&W
1948 MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE. H. C. Potter 94 min. 35mm B&W sound
1947 Ramrod. André de Toth 94 min. 35mm B&W sound
1947 Road to Rio Jack Rose, Norman Z. McLeod 12:00 B&W
1947 Road To Rio. Jack Rose, Norman Z. McLeod 100 min 35mm B&W sound
1947 The Trouble with women Sidney Lanfield 80 min B&W
1945 A Thousand And One Nights Ideal Pictures Inc 93 min 16mm sound
1945 Salome, Where She Danced. B. Reeves Eason, Charles Lamont 10 reels Color sound
1945 Tampico. Filmcraft (Firm) 1:30 16mm B&W sound
1945 Tampico. Lothar Mendes 1 reel 16mm B&W sound
1945 The Southerner Loew-Hakim Inc 1:31:00 16mm B&W sound
1945 The Southerner ▶ Jean Renoir 92 min B&W
1945 The Southerner. Jean Renoir 91 min. B&W
1944 Music For Millions Irving Lesser Enterprises 120 min 16mm B&W sound