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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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
July 4th, 1964 | Death Whistles the Blues | Comisario Fenton | 5 | |
January 5th, 1964 | The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog | Inspector | 10 | |
October 1st, 1963 | The Running Man | Spanish Bank Manager | 6.7 | |
April 8th, 1959 | Thunder in the Sun | Fernando Christophe | 5.6 | |
September 5th, 1958 | The Saga of Hemp Brown | Serge Bolanos | 6.4 | |
July 11th, 1957 | An Affair to Remember | Courbet | 7.4 | |
January 19th, 1956 | Jaguar | Francisco Servente | 7.5 | |
April 28th, 1955 | Kiss Me Deadly | Carmen Trivago | 7.2 | |
February 15th, 1955 | New York Confidential | Senor | 6 | |
January 1st, 1954 | With This Ring | Senor Corelli, Opera Singer | 6 | |
December 16th, 1953 | The Girl on The Roof | TV host | 5.3 | |
September 1st, 1953 | Conquest of Cochise | Mexican Minister | 5.3 | |
July 18th, 1953 | Second Chance | Mandy, hotel owner | 6 | |
July 15th, 1953 | So This Is Love | Dr. Marafioti | 4.3 | |
July 8th, 1953 | The Moon Is Blue | Television Performer | 6.3 | |
May 21st, 1953 | Thunder Bay | Sheriff Antoine Chighizola | 6.1 | |
September 15th, 1951 | Havana Rose | Ambassador DeMarco | 7 | |
October 18th, 1950 | September Affair | Grazzi | 6 | |
March 10th, 1950 | Nancy Goes to Rio | Ricardo Domingos | 6 | |
January 13th, 1950 | Whirlpool | Feruccio di Ravallo | 6.4 | |
January 21st, 1949 | Bad Men of Tombstone | John Mingo | 6.5 | |
December 24th, 1948 | Adventures of Don Juan | Don Serafino Lopez | 6.8 | |
November 1st, 1948 | Angel on the Amazon | Sebastian Ortega | 5.5 | |
June 25th, 1948 | Romance on the High Seas | Plinio | 6.7 | |
December 25th, 1947 | Rose of Santa Rosa | Don Manuel Ortega | 6.5 | |
November 11th, 1947 | The Fugitive | The Governor's Cousin | 6 | |
August 13th, 1947 | The Kneeling Goddess | TBD | 6.8 | |
June 12th, 1947 | Fiesta | Antonio Morales | 6.2 | |
September 4th, 1946 | Monsieur Beaucaire | Don Carlos | 5.7 | |
February 22nd, 1946 | Pepita Jimenez | Don Pedro Vargas | 5.9 | |
November 29th, 1945 | Hit the Hay | Mario Alvini | 7 | |
November 16th, 1945 | Man Alive | Prof. Zorado | 5.6 | |
August 1st, 1945 | The Red Dragon | Insp. Luis Carvero | 6.6 | |
June 21st, 1945 | A Bell for Adano | Gargano - Chief of Police | 6 | |
May 31st, 1945 | La pícara Susana | TBD | 5.7 | |
May 23rd, 1945 | Where Do We Go from Here? | Christopher Columbus | 5.4 | |
November 30th, 1944 | Brazil | Senor Renaldo Da Silva | 5.2 | |
October 12th, 1944 | Mrs. Parkington | Signor Cellini | 6 | |
July 6th, 1944 | Double Indemnity | Sam Garlopis | 8.1 | |
March 28th, 1944 | My Best Gal | Charlie | 9 | |
January 14th, 1944 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Old Baba | 6.2 | |
January 1st, 1944 | Going My Way | Tomaso Bozanni | 6.7 | |
December 16th, 1943 | The Sultan's Daughter | Kuda | 5 | |
July 12th, 1943 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Fernando | 6.5 | |
June 23rd, 1943 | Dixie | Waiter | 5 | |
May 26th, 1943 | Five Graves to Cairo | Gen. Sebastiano | 7 | |
December 4th, 1942 | The Black Swan | Don Miguel (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
October 9th, 1942 | Girl Trouble | Simon Cordoba | 8.3 | |
April 24th, 1942 | Larceny, Inc. | Anton Copoulos | 7.1 | |
April 1st, 1942 | Obliging Young Lady | Chef | 6 | |
January 23rd, 1942 | Four Jacks and a Jill | Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
January 23rd, 1942 | Mr. and Mrs. North | Buano | 4.4 | |
October 2nd, 1941 | Two Latins from Manhattan | Armando Rivero | 6 | |
September 26th, 1941 | A Yank in the R.A.F. | Louie - Headwaiter | 5.6 | |
August 27th, 1941 | Unfinished Business | Impresario | 6.5 | |
July 4th, 1941 | Moon Over Miami | Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager | 6.5 | |
May 30th, 1941 | Blood and Sand | Pedro Espinosa | 6.5 | |
April 17th, 1941 | Citizen Kane | Signor Matiste | 8 | |
April 11th, 1941 | That Night in Rio | Pereira, the Headwaiter | 6.4 | |
November 8th, 1940 | The Mark of Zorro | Sentry (uncredited) | 7.1 | |
October 11th, 1940 | Down Argentine Way | Hotel Manager | 6.3 | |
May 10th, 1940 | I Was an Adventuress | Orchestra Leader | 6.6 | |
August 5th, 1938 | Bulldog Drummond in Africa | African Police Corporal | 5.8 | |
June 29th, 1938 | Tropic Holiday | Barrera | 6.2 | |
March 24th, 1938 | Romance in the Dark | Tenor | 5.3 | |
December 1st, 1936 | El carnaval del diablo | TBD | 7 | |
January 1st, 1935 | Poderoso caballero | TBD | 10 | |
September 17th, 1932 | A Successful Calamity | Pietro Rafaelo | 5.6 | |
April 2nd, 1932 | Careless Lady | Rodriguez | 5.8 | |
January 1st, 1929 | Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis) | TBD | TBD | |
December 22nd, 1928 | Las cuatro plumas | TBD | TBD | |
October 26th, 1922 | Don Juan Tenorio | Don Juan Tenorio | 6.4 |