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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.

Personal information

Birthday

1895-01-13

Birth Place

Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Movies and TV shows :

poster

77 Sunset Strip

1958

6.7

TV
A Bell for Adano

A Bell for Adano

1945

5.6

Movie
A Successful Calamity

A Successful Calamity

1932

5.2

Movie
A Yank in the R.A.F.

A Yank in the R.A.F.

1941

5.5

Movie
Adventures of Don Juan

Adventures of Don Juan

1948

6.4

Movie
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1944

6.2

Movie
An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember

1957

7.4

Movie
Angel on the Amazon

Angel on the Amazon

1948

4.8

Movie
Bad Men of Tombstone

Bad Men of Tombstone

1949

6.3

Movie
Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand

1941

6.4

Movie
Brazil

Brazil

1944

5.2

Movie
Bulldog Drummond in Africa

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

1938

5.5

Movie
Careless Lady

Careless Lady

1932

5.3

Movie
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

1941

8.0

Movie
Conquest of Cochise

Conquest of Cochise

1953

5.1

Movie
Death Whistles the Blues

Death Whistles the Blues

1964

4.4

Movie
poster

December Bride

1954

5.5

TV
Dixie

Dixie

1943

3.0

Movie
Don Juan Tenorio

Don Juan Tenorio

1922

5.8

Movie
Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

1944

8.1

Movie
Down Argentine Way

Down Argentine Way

1940

6.0

Movie
El carnaval del diablo

El carnaval del diablo

1936

0.0

Movie
Fiesta

Fiesta

1947

4.7

Movie
Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo

1943

6.9

Movie
For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943

6.5

Movie
Four Jacks and a Jill

Four Jacks and a Jill

1942

6.0

Movie
poster

General Electric Theater

1953

6.0

TV
Girl Trouble

Girl Trouble

1942

6.5

Movie
Going My Way

Going My Way

1944

6.7

Movie
Havana Rose

Havana Rose

1951

0.0

Movie
Hit the Hay

Hit the Hay

1945

0.0

Movie
poster

I Love Lucy

1951

8.0

TV
I Was an Adventuress

I Was an Adventuress

1940

6.3

Movie
Jaguar

Jaguar

1956

7.0

Movie
Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss Me Deadly

1955

7.2

Movie
La pícara Susana

La pícara Susana

1945

5.0

Movie
Larceny, Inc.

Larceny, Inc.

1942

7.0

Movie
Las cuatro plumas

Las cuatro plumas

1928

0.0

Movie
Man Alive

Man Alive

1945

5.1

Movie
Monsieur Beaucaire

Monsieur Beaucaire

1946

5.6

Movie
Moon Over Miami

Moon Over Miami

1941

6.1

Movie
Mr. and Mrs. North

Mr. and Mrs. North

1942

4.5

Movie
Mrs. Parkington

Mrs. Parkington

1944

6.0

Movie
My Best Gal

My Best Gal

1944

0.0

Movie
Nancy Goes to Rio

Nancy Goes to Rio

1950

5.7

Movie
New York Confidential

New York Confidential

1955

5.8

Movie
Obliging Young Lady

Obliging Young Lady

1942

5.0

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

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

1929

0.0

Movie
Pepita Jimenez

Pepita Jimenez

1946

4.8

Movie
Poderoso caballero

Poderoso caballero

1935

0.0

Movie
poster

Racket Squad

1951

6.0

TV
Romance in the Dark

Romance in the Dark

1938

3.0

Movie
Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas

1948

6.7

Movie
Second Chance

Second Chance

1953

5.9

Movie
September Affair

September Affair

1950

6.0

Movie
So This Is Love

So This Is Love

1953

5.5

Movie
That Night in Rio

That Night in Rio

1941

6.2

Movie
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog

The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog

1964

0.0

Movie
The Black Swan

The Black Swan

1942

6.4

Movie
poster

The Count of Monte Cristo

1956

4.4

TV
The Fugitive

The Fugitive

1947

5.9

Movie
The Girl on The Roof

The Girl on The Roof

1953

4.4

Movie
The Kneeling Goddess

The Kneeling Goddess

1947

6.6

Movie
The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro

1940

7.1

Movie
The Moon Is Blue

The Moon Is Blue

1953

6.4

Movie
The Red Dragon

The Red Dragon

1945

6.1

Movie
The Running Man

The Running Man

1963

6.6

Movie
The Saga of Hemp Brown

The Saga of Hemp Brown

1958

5.6

Movie
The Sultan's Daughter

The Sultan's Daughter

1943

3.0

Movie
Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay

1953

6.1

Movie
Thunder in the Sun

Thunder in the Sun

1959

6.0

Movie
Tropic Holiday

Tropic Holiday

1938

5.5

Movie
Two Latins from Manhattan

Two Latins from Manhattan

1941

5.0

Movie
Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

1941

5.3

Movie
Where Do We Go from Here?

Where Do We Go from Here?

1945

5.3

Movie
Whirlpool

Whirlpool

1950

6.4

Movie
With This Ring

With This Ring

1954

0.0

Movie