Fortunio Bonanova

Fortunio Bonanova

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1895-01-13
Deathday: 1969-04-02 (74 years old)

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.

Filmography

all 79

Movies 73

TV Shows 6

Director 2

Spanish Bank Manager
The Running Man

The Running Man (1963)

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Francisco Servente
Jaguar

Jaguar (1956)

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Mandy, hotel owner
Second Chance

Second Chance (1953)

Movie
1
Television Performer
The Moon Is Blue

The Moon Is Blue (1953)

Movie
Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay (1953)

Movie
Ambassador DeMarco
Havana Rose

Havana Rose (1951)

Movie
Feruccio di Ravallo
Whirlpool

Whirlpool (1950)

Movie
The Governor's Cousin
The Fugitive

The Fugitive (1947)

Movie
Antonio Morales
Fiesta

Fiesta (1947)

Movie
Insp. Luis Carvero
The Red Dragon

The Red Dragon (1945)

Movie
Gargano - Chief of Police
A Bell for Adano

A Bell for Adano (1945)

Movie
Senor Renaldo Da Silva
Brazil

Brazil (1944)

Movie
Don Miguel (uncredited)
The Black Swan

The Black Swan (1942)

Movie
Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
Four Jacks and a Jill

Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

Movie
Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
Moon Over Miami

Moon Over Miami (1941)

Movie
Pedro, Ranch Blacksmith
They Met in Argentina

They Met in Argentina (1941)

Movie
Pereira, the Headwaiter
That Night in Rio

That Night in Rio (1941)

Movie
Director / Adaptation / Editor
Las cuatro plumas

Las cuatro plumas (1928)

Movie

Information

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1895-01-13

Deathday
1969-04-02 (74 years old)

Birth Name
Josep Lluís Moll

Birth Place
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Citizenships
Spain

Also Known As
Josep Lluís Moll

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