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Nestor Paiva

Highest Rated:
100% Road to Rio (1947)
Lowest Rated:
0% They Saved Hitler's Brain (1963)
Birthday:
Jun 30, 1905
Birthplace:
Fresno, California, USA
Bio:
Nestor Paiva had the indeterminate ethnic features and gift for dialects that enabled him to play virtually every nationality. Though frequently pegged as a Spaniard, a Greek, a Portuguese, an Italian, an Arab, an even (on radio, at least) an African-American, Paiva was actually born in Fresno,…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%
Number of Movies: 96
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1993 Fly by Night
  • Grube
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1967 The Spirit Is Willing
  • Felicity's Father
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1966 Let's Kill Uncle (Let's Kill Uncle, Before Uncle Kills Us)
  • Steward
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1963 0% They Saved Hitler's Brain
  • Actor
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1963 California
  • Gen. Micheltorena
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1963 The Madmen of Mandoras (Amazing Mr. H )
  • Police Chief Alaniz
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1962 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • Miguel
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1962 The Three Stooges in Orbit
  • Chairman
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1962 40% Girls! Girls! Girls!
  • Mr. Morgan
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1960 Can-Can
  • Bailiff
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1959 Alias Jesse James
  • Bixby
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1958 100% The Left Handed Gun
  • Actor
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1958 Outcasts of the City
  • Pastor Skira
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1958 The Case Against Brooklyn
  • Finelli
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1958 Deep Six
  • Pappa Tatos
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1958 Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
  • Actor
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1957 Guns of Fort Petticoat
  • Tortilla
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1957 100% Les Girls
  • Spanish Peasant Man
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1956 Comanche
  • Puffer
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1956 The Mole People
  • Prof. Etienne Lafarge
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1955 33% Revenge of the Creature
  • Lucas
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1955 Hell on Frisco Bay
  • Lou Fiaschetti
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1955 New York Confidential
  • Martinelli
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1955 92% All That Heaven Allows
  • Manuel
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1955 92% Tarantula
  • Sheriff Jack Andrews
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1954 Casanova's Big Night
  • Gnocchi
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1954 82% Creature from the Black Lagoon
  • Lucas
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1954 Thunder Pass
  • Actor
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1953 Killer Ape
  • Andrews
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1953 Call Me Madam
  • Miccoli
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1952 67% Viva Zapata!
  • New General
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1952 With a Song in My Heart
  • Doctor
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1952 100% 5 Fingers
  • Turkish Ambassador
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1952 Phone Call from a Stranger
  • Headwaiter
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1951 The Great Caruso (1951)
  • Egisto Barretto
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1951 100% On Dangerous Ground
  • Bagganierri
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1951 Jim Thorpe -- All-American (Man of Bronze)
  • Hiram Thorpe
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1951 My Favorite Spy
  • Fire Chief
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1951 Double Dynamite (It's Only Money)
  • Bookie
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1951 Jim Thorpe - All American
  • Actor
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1950 Guilty of Treason
  • Actor
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1950 Young Man With a Horn
  • Louis Galba
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1949 Alias Nick Beal (The Contact Man)
  • Karl
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1949 Follow Me Quietly
  • Benny
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1949 94% Mighty Joe Young
  • Brown
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1949 89% The Inspector General
  • Gregor
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1948 Joan of Arc
  • Henry Le Royer
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1948 100% The Paleface
  • Patient
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1948 Mr. Reckless
  • Gus
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1948 79% Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
  • Joe Appolionion
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1947 Ramrod
  • Curley
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1947 Shoot to Kill
  • Gus Miller
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1947 100% Road to Rio
  • Cardoso
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1946 Suspense
  • Actor
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1946 Badman's Territory
  • Sam Bass
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1946 100% Road to Utopia
  • McGurk
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1946 60% Humoresque
  • Orchestra Leader
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1946 The Last Crooked Mile
  • Ferrara
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1946 Fear
  • Schaefer
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1945 Cornered
  • Police Official
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1945 Nob Hill
  • Luigi
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1945 A Thousand and One Nights (1001 Nights)
  • Kahim
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1945 91% The Southerner
  • Bartender
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1945 Along the Navajo Trail
  • Janza
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1945 A Medal for Benny
  • Frank Alviso
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1945 Salome Where She Danced
  • Panatela
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1944 The Purple Heart
  • Francisco De Los Santos
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1944 Tampico
  • Naval Commander
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1944 Shine On Harvest Moon
  • Romero the Chef
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1943 Tornado
  • Big Joe Vlochek
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1943 Background to Danger
  • Actor
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1943 The Hard Way
  • Max Wade
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1943 80% The Song of Bernadette
  • Baker
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1943 The Dancing Masters
  • Silvio
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1942 Ship Ahoy
  • Felix
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1942 67% Reap the Wild Wind
  • Man with Suspenders
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1942 92% Road to Morocco
  • Arab Sausage Vendor
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1942 Pittsburgh
  • Barney restaurateur
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1941 Johnny Eager
  • Tony
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1941 100% Hold That Ghost (Oh, Charlie)
  • Glum
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1941 100% Hold Back the Dawn
  • Flores
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1941 Pot o' Gold
  • Guide
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1940 Santa Fe Trail
  • Agitator
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1940 Primrose Path
  • Actor
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1940 100% The Sea Hawk
  • Slavemaster
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1940 Arise, My Love
  • Uniformed clerk
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1940 He Stayed for Breakfast
  • Gendarme
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1940 They Knew What They Wanted
  • Pal at Table
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1939 100% Another Thin Man (Return of the Thin Man)
  • Headwaiter
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1939 Bachelor Mother
  • Actor
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1939 Union Pacific
  • C.P. Conductor
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1939 100% Beau Geste
  • Corporal Golas
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1939 92% Midnight
  • Woman's escort
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1938 Prison Train
  • Sullen
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1938 Spider's Web
  • Henchman Red
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1938 Ride a Crooked Mile
  • Leroyd
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