credits of

Fortunio Bonanova

Fortunio Bonanova

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

This Website uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.

Monte Movies 2024