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Name
Fortunio Bonanova

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1895-01-13

Deathday
1969-04-02 (74 years old)

Place of Birth
Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Biography

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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1941 Citizen Kane as Signor Matiste
1944 Double Indemnity as Sam Garlopis
1941 A Yank in the R.A.F. as Louie - Headwaiter
1953 Second Chance as Mandy, hotel owner
1957 An Affair to Remember as Courbet
1948 Adventures of Don Juan as Don Serafino Lopez
1950 Whirlpool as Feruccio di Ravallo
1955 New York Confidential as Senor
1943 Five Graves to Cairo as Gen. Sebastiano
1947 The Fugitive as The Governor's Cousin
1953 Thunder Bay as Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
1948 Romance on the High Seas as Plinio
1941 Moon Over Miami as Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
1940 Down Argentine Way as Hotel Manager
1944 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as Old Baba
1947 Fiesta as Antonio Morales
1945 The Red Dragon as Insp. Luis Carvero
1944 Mrs. Parkington as Signor Cellini
1942 Larceny, Inc. as Anton Copoulos
1953 The Moon Is Blue as Television Performer
1950 September Affair as Grazzi
1950 Nancy Goes to Rio as Ricardo Domingos
1947 The Kneeling Goddess
1958 The Saga of Hemp Brown as Serge Bolanos
1938 Tropic Holiday as Barrera
1945 Man Alive as Prof. Zorado
1953 So This Is Love as Dr. Marafioti
1942 Four Jacks and a Jill as Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
1954 With This Ring as Senor Corelli, Opera Singer
1941 That Night in Rio as Pereira, the Headwaiter
1945 Hit the Hay as Mario Alvini
1945 Where Do We Go from Here? as Christopher Columbus
1938 Bulldog Drummond in Africa as African Police Corporal
1953 The Girl on The Roof as TV host
1940 I Was an Adventuress as Orchestra Leader
1941 Blood and Sand as Pedro Espinosa
1932 Careless Lady as Rodriguez
1942 Girl Trouble as Simon Cordoba
1943 Dixie as Waiter
1946 Pepita Jiménez as Don Pedro Vargas
1948 Angel on the Amazon as Sebastian Ortega
1944 My Best Gal as Charlie
1944 Brazil as Senor Renaldo Da Silva
1944 Going My Way as Tomaso Bozanni
1956 Jaguar as Francisco Servente
1943 The Sultan's Daughter as Kuda
1940 The Mark of Zorro as Sentry (uncredited)
1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls as Fernando
1932 A Successful Calamity as Pietro Rafaelo
1949 Bad Men of Tombstone as John Mingo
1953 Conquest of Cochise as Mexican Minister
1959 Thunder in the Sun as Fernando Christophe
1922 Don Juan Tenorio as Don Juan Tenorio
1936 El carnaval del diablo
1941 Unfinished Business as Impresario
1942 Obliging Young Lady as Chef
1941 Two Latins from Manhattan as Armando Rivero
1945 La pícara Susana as Conde Mauricio Tonescu
1938 Romance in the Dark as Tenor
1951 Havana Rose as Ambassador DeMarco
1935 Poderoso caballero
1945 A Bell for Adano as Gargano - Chief of Police
1955 Kiss Me Deadly as Carmen Trivago
1964 Death Whistles the Blues as Comisario Fenton
1942 Mr. and Mrs. North as Buano
1963 The Running Man as Spanish Bank Manager
1942 The Black Swan as Don Miguel (uncredited)
1929 Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
1964 The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog as Inspector
1928 Las cuatro plumas
1946 Monsieur Beaucaire as Don Carlos
1947 Rose of Santa Rosa as Don Manuel Ortega
1934 El desaparecido
1941 They Met in Argentina as Pedro, Ranch Blacksmith (uncredited)

1958 77 Sunset Strip ( 1 episode ) as Santos
1954 December Bride ( 1 episode )
1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode )
1951 I Love Lucy ( 1 episode ) as Professor
1956 The Count of Monte Cristo ( 3 episodes )
1951 Racket Squad ( 1 episode )
1952 The Abbott and Costello Show ( 1 episode ) as Uncle Bozzo
1952 The Abbott and Costello Show ( 1 episode ) as Prof. Roberto

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