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Fortunio Bonanova
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Fortunio Bonanova
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-01-13,Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Gender
Male
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

7.998

Citizen Kane
1941-04-17

Double Indemnity

8.1

Double Indemnity
1944-07-06

A Yank in the R.A.F.

5.524

A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941-09-26

5.9

Second Chance
1953-07-18

An Affair to Remember

7.4

An Affair to Remember
1957-07-11

Adventures of Don Juan

6.4

Adventures of Don Juan
1948-12-24

6.4

Whirlpool
1950-01-13

New York Confidential

5.8

New York Confidential
1955-02-15

Five Graves to Cairo

6.9

Five Graves to Cairo
1943-05-26

5.92

The Fugitive
1947-11-11

6.1

Thunder Bay
1953-05-21

Romance on the High Seas

6.7

Romance on the High Seas
1948-06-25

Moon Over Miami

6.1

Moon Over Miami
1941-07-04

Down Argentine Way

6

Down Argentine Way
1940-10-11

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

6.2

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944-01-14

4.7

Fiesta
1947-06-12

6.1

The Red Dragon
1945-08-01

Mrs. Parkington

6.139

Mrs. Parkington
1944-10-12

7

Larceny, Inc.
1942-04-24

The Moon Is Blue

6.255

The Moon Is Blue
1953-07-08

September Affair

6.1

September Affair
1950-10-18

Nancy Goes to Rio

5.7

Nancy Goes to Rio
1950-03-10

The Kneeling Goddess

6.6

The Kneeling Goddess
1947-08-13

The Saga of Hemp Brown

5.6

The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958-10-01

5.5

Tropic Holiday
1938-06-29

5.1

Man Alive
1945-11-16

So This Is Love

4.5

So This Is Love
1953-07-15

Four Jacks and a Jill

6

Four Jacks and a Jill
1942-01-23

0

With This Ring
1954-01-01

That Night in Rio

6.2

That Night in Rio
1941-04-11

0

Hit the Hay
1945-11-29

Where Do We Go from Here?

5.3

Where Do We Go from Here?
1945-05-23

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

5.5

Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938-08-05

The Girl on The Roof

4.4

The Girl on The Roof
1953-12-16

I Was an Adventuress

6.3

I Was an Adventuress
1940-05-10

6.4

Blood and Sand
1941-05-30

5.25

Careless Lady
1932-04-02

6.5

Girl Trouble
1942-10-09

3

Dixie
1943-06-23

4.8

Pepita Jimenez
1946-02-22

Angel on the Amazon

4.8

Angel on the Amazon
1948-11-01

0

My Best Gal
1944-03-28

5.2

Brazil
1944-11-30

6.7

Going My Way
1944-01-01

7

Jaguar
1956-01-19

The Sultan's Daughter

3

The Sultan's Daughter
1943-12-16

The Mark of Zorro

7.1

The Mark of Zorro
1940-11-08

For Whom the Bell Tolls

6.5

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943-07-12

A Successful Calamity

5.2

A Successful Calamity
1932-09-17

Bad Men of Tombstone

6.3

Bad Men of Tombstone
1949-01-21

Conquest of Cochise

5.1

Conquest of Cochise
1953-09-01

Thunder in the Sun

6

Thunder in the Sun
1959-04-08

Don Juan Tenorio

5.8

Don Juan Tenorio
1922-10-26

El carnaval del diablo

0

El carnaval del diablo
1936-12-01

Unfinished Business

5.3

Unfinished Business
1941-08-27

Obliging Young Lady

5

Obliging Young Lady
1942-04-01

Two Latins from Manhattan

5

Two Latins from Manhattan
1941-10-02

La pícara Susana

5

La pícara Susana
1945-05-31

Romance in the Dark

3

Romance in the Dark
1938-03-24

0

Havana Rose
1951-09-15

Poderoso caballero

0

Poderoso caballero
1935-01-01

A Bell for Adano

5.654

A Bell for Adano
1945-06-21

7.2

Kiss Me Deadly
1955-04-28

Death Whistles the Blues

4.7

Death Whistles the Blues
1964-07-04

Mr. and Mrs. North

4.5

Mr. and Mrs. North
1942-01-23

The Running Man

6.619

The Running Man
1963-10-01

6.4

The Black Swan
1942-12-04

Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)

0

Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
1929-01-01

The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog

0

The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
1964-01-05

Las cuatro plumas

0

Las cuatro plumas
1928-12-22

Monsieur Beaucaire

5.6

Monsieur Beaucaire
1946-09-04

77 Sunset Strip

6.7

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

5.5

December Bride
1954-10-04

General Electric Theater

6

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

7.926

I Love Lucy
1951-10-15

The Count of Monte Cristo

4.4

The Count of Monte Cristo
1956-02-20

6

Racket Squad
1951-06-07