Highest rated movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Lowest rated movie: Menace from Outer Space (1956)
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Looking for reviews of Nestor Paiva movies? Cinafilm has a total of 2,160 reviews across 70 movies.
Movies starring Nestor Paiva have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - released in 1939 - is Nestor Paiva's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 97 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Nestor Paiva is Menace from Outer Space - released in 1956 - with a score of 28% based on 3 reviews.
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.
Nestor Paiva has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Ethan Laidlaw, Franklyn Farnum and Frank Mills.
Nestor Paiva has worked with these film directors: Michael Curtiz, Norman Z. McLeod, David Butler and Jack Arnold.
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