- Parents Francisco Caetano Paiva and Marianna Luiza Freitas were Portuguese immigrants. Nestor was the tenth of twelve children -- half of them dying in infancy. His parents owned a grocery store in Fresno.
- Took a job at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank during the WWII effort.
- Appeared in Comanche (1956) with both his children in their only acting roles (uncredited, young boy and young girl killed by Indians).
- Initially planned on becoming a teacher and enrolled at the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit institution.
- In 1965 he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and, despite extensive surgery that led to the removal most of his stomach, his condition deteriorated and he died the following year.
- His wife Maxine was once Howard Hughes' secretary. They married in 1941 and had two children: Joseph Caetano (born 1944) and Caetana Yvette (born 1947).
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