Fortunio Bonanova, pseudonym of Josep Lluís Moll, (13 January 1895 – 2 April 1969) was a Spanish baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor. He occasionally worked as a producer and director.
Fortunio Bonanova, pseudonym of Josep Lluís Moll, (13 January 1895 – 2 April 1969) was a Spanish baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor. He occasionally worked as a producer and director.
According to Lluis Fàbregas Cuixart, the pseudonym Fortunio Bonanova referred to his desire to seek fortune, and his love of the Bonanova neighborhood in his native Palma.
As a young man, living under his birthname, he was a professional telegraph operator. He studied music with the Italian Giovachini. In 1921, he debuted as a singer in Tannhäuser, at the Teatre Principal in Palma. That year, along with a group of Majorcan intellectuals and Jorge Luis Borges (who was briefly living in Majorca with his parents and sister), he signed the Ultraist Manifesto, using the name Fortunio Bonanova.
Also in 1921, he appeared in a silent film of Don Juan Tenorio by the brothers Baños, which was shown the following year in New York City and Hollywood. He later directed his own Don Juan in 1924.
In 1927, he acted in Love of Sunya, directed by Albert Parker and starring Gloria Swanson. In 1932 he had small parts in Hollywood productions featuring Joan Bennett and Mary Astor. In the same period, he appeared in New York in several operas as well as the zarzuelas La Canción del Olvido ("The song of forgetting"), La Duquesa del Tabarín ("The Duchess of Tabarín"), Los Gavilanes, and La Montería. In 1934, he returned to Spain, where he had a major role in the film El Desaparecido ("The disappeared one") written and directed by Antonio Graciani. In 1935 he acted and sang in the film Poderoso Caballero ("A Big Guy"), directed by Màximo Nossik.
In 1936, with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he returned to the United States, where he played the role of Captain Bill in a film called Capitán Tormenta, directed by Jules Bernhardt. A sequence of increasingly larger acting and singing roles mostly in English-language films followed, especially after 1940. Among his roles were Signor Matiste, Susan Alexander Kane's opera coach in Citizen Kane (1941); General Sebastiano in Five Graves to Cairo (1943); Don Miguel in The Black Swan (1942); Fernando in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943); Sam Garlopis in Double Indemnity (1944); and a singing Christopher Columbus in Where Do We Go From Here?. He continued for the next several decades in a miscellany of character roles.
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Filmography (Movies)
Death Whistles the Blues
Character:Comisario Fenton
Release Date:04/07/1964
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
Character:Inspector
Release Date:05/01/1964
The Running Man
Character:Spanish Bank Manager
Release Date:01/10/1963
Thunder in the Sun
Character:Fernando Christophe
Release Date:08/04/1959
The Saga of Hemp Brown
Character:Serge Bolanos
Release Date:05/09/1958
An Affair to Remember
Character:Courbet
Release Date:11/07/1957
Jaguar
Character:Francisco Servente
Release Date:19/01/1956
Kiss Me Deadly
Character:Carmen Trivago
Release Date:28/04/1955
New York Confidential
Character:Senor
Release Date:15/02/1955
With This Ring
Character:Senor Corelli, Opera Singer
Release Date:01/01/1954
The Girl on The Roof
Character:TV host
Release Date:16/12/1953
Conquest of Cochise
Character:Mexican Minister
Release Date:01/09/1953
Second Chance
Character:Mandy, hotel owner
Release Date:18/07/1953
So This Is Love
Character:Dr. Marafioti
Release Date:15/07/1953
The Moon Is Blue
Character:Television Performer
Release Date:08/07/1953
Thunder Bay
Character:Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
Release Date:21/05/1953
Havana Rose
Character:Ambassador DeMarco
Release Date:15/09/1951
September Affair
Character:Grazzi
Release Date:18/10/1950
Nancy Goes to Rio
Character:Ricardo Domingos
Release Date:10/03/1950
Whirlpool
Character:Feruccio di Ravallo
Release Date:13/01/1950
Bad Men of Tombstone
Character:John Mingo
Release Date:21/01/1949
Adventures of Don Juan
Character:Don Serafino Lopez
Release Date:24/12/1948
Angel on the Amazon
Character:Sebastian Ortega
Release Date:01/11/1948
Romance on the High Seas
Character:Plinio
Release Date:25/06/1948
Rose of Santa Rosa
Character:Don Manuel Ortega
Release Date:25/12/1947
The Fugitive
Character:The Governor's Cousin
Release Date:11/11/1947
The Kneeling Goddess
Character:
Release Date:13/08/1947
Fiesta
Character:Antonio Morales
Release Date:12/06/1947
Monsieur Beaucaire
Character:Don Carlos
Release Date:04/09/1946
Pepita Jimenez
Character:Don Pedro Vargas
Release Date:22/02/1946
Hit the Hay
Character:Mario Alvini
Release Date:29/11/1945
Man Alive
Character:Prof. Zorado
Release Date:16/11/1945
The Red Dragon
Character:Insp. Luis Carvero
Release Date:01/08/1945
A Bell for Adano
Character:Gargano - Chief of Police
Release Date:21/06/1945
La pícara Susana
Character:
Release Date:31/05/1945
Where Do We Go from Here?
Character:Christopher Columbus
Release Date:23/05/1945
Brazil
Character:Senor Renaldo Da Silva
Release Date:30/11/1944
Mrs. Parkington
Character:Signor Cellini
Release Date:12/10/1944
Double Indemnity
Character:Sam Garlopis
Release Date:06/07/1944
My Best Gal
Character:Charlie
Release Date:28/03/1944
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Character:Old Baba
Release Date:14/01/1944
Going My Way
Character:Tomaso Bozanni
Release Date:01/01/1944
The Sultan's Daughter
Character:Kuda
Release Date:16/12/1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Character:Fernando
Release Date:12/07/1943
Dixie
Character:Waiter
Release Date:23/06/1943
Five Graves to Cairo
Character:Gen. Sebastiano
Release Date:26/05/1943
The Black Swan
Character:Don Miguel (uncredited)
Release Date:04/12/1942
Girl Trouble
Character:Simon Cordoba
Release Date:09/10/1942
Larceny, Inc.
Character:Anton Copoulos
Release Date:24/04/1942
Obliging Young Lady
Character:Chef
Release Date:01/04/1942
Four Jacks and a Jill
Character:Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
Release Date:23/01/1942
Mr. and Mrs. North
Character:Buano
Release Date:23/01/1942
Two Latins from Manhattan
Character:Armando Rivero
Release Date:02/10/1941
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Character:Louie - Headwaiter
Release Date:26/09/1941
Unfinished Business
Character:Impresario
Release Date:27/08/1941
Moon Over Miami
Character:Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
Release Date:04/07/1941
Blood and Sand
Character:Pedro Espinosa
Release Date:30/05/1941
Citizen Kane
Character:Signor Matiste
Release Date:17/04/1941
That Night in Rio
Character:Pereira, the Headwaiter
Release Date:11/04/1941
The Mark of Zorro
Character:Sentry (uncredited)
Release Date:08/11/1940
Down Argentine Way
Character:Hotel Manager
Release Date:11/10/1940
I Was an Adventuress
Character:Orchestra Leader
Release Date:10/05/1940
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Character:African Police Corporal
Release Date:05/08/1938
Tropic Holiday
Character:Barrera
Release Date:29/06/1938
Romance in the Dark
Character:Tenor
Release Date:24/03/1938
El carnaval del diablo
Character:
Release Date:01/12/1936
Poderoso caballero
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1935
A Successful Calamity
Character:Pietro Rafaelo
Release Date:17/09/1932
Careless Lady
Character:Rodriguez
Release Date:02/04/1932
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1929
Las cuatro plumas
Character:
Release Date:22/12/1928
Don Juan Tenorio
Character:Don Juan Tenorio
Release Date:26/10/1922
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