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Mature courage actor Nestor Paiva had one of those colourless ethnic mugs and a artless forte for dialects that allowed him to temporize reasonably any kidney of newcomer. Born in Fresno, California, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and developed an interest in performing while hooking up with college theatrics. Making his debut in a building of “Antigone,” he played in a Los Angeles formation of “The Drunkard” for 11 years, in the long run leaving the show as his workload grew in legions and concern in the mid-40s. Screen buffs reward him as the plain villain, “The Scorpion” in the wartime venerable serial “Don Winslow And The Caost Protection” (1943). In hundreds of videotape and TV roles from 1938-67 and in an all-embracing occupation that spanned 40 years, the bald, profound and voluminous Paiva played everything from Spaniards, Greeks, Russians and Portuguese to Italians, Indians, Arabs and even African-Americans (the latter on ghetto-blaster). Some were underhanded, others emotional, many noticeably joyous…and many of them undeserving and mini. He died in 1966.

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The Mole People (1956) Trailer

Hugh Beaumont ... Dr. Jud Bellamin; Alan Napier ... Elinu, the Soprano Priest; Nestor Paiva ... Prof. Etienne Lafarge; Phil Chambers ... Dr. Paul ...