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.
Known For
Credits
- 1964 · Death Whistles the Blues as Comisario Fenton
- 1964 · The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog as Inspector
- 1963 · The Running Man as Spanish Bank Manager
- 1959 · Thunder in the Sun as Fernando Christophe
- 1958 · 77 Sunset Strip as Santos
- 1958 · The Saga of Hemp Brown as Serge Bolanos
- 1957 · An Affair to Remember as Courbet
- 1956 · The Count of Monte Cristo as
- 1956 · Jaguar as Francisco Servente
- 1955 · Kiss Me Deadly as Carmen Trivago
- 1955 · New York Confidential as Senor
- 1954 · December Bride as
- 1954 · With This Ring as
- 1953 · The Girl on The Roof as TV host
- 1953 · Conquest of Cochise as Mexican Minister
- 1953 · Second Chance as Mandy, hotel owner
- 1953 · So This Is Love as Dr. Marafioti
- 1953 · The Moon Is Blue as Television Performer
- 1953 · Thunder Bay as Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as
- 1951 · I Love Lucy as Professor
- 1951 · Havana Rose as Ambassador DeMarco
- 1951 · Racket Squad as
- 1950 · September Affair as Grazzi
- 1950 · Nancy Goes to Rio as Ricardo Domingos
- 1950 · Whirlpool as Feruccio di Ravallo
- 1949 · Bad Men of Tombstone as John Mingo
- 1948 · Adventures of Don Juan as Don Serafino Lopez
- 1948 · Angel on the Amazon as Sebastian Ortega
- 1948 · Romance on the High Seas as Plinio
- 1947 · The Fugitive as The Governor's Cousin
- 1947 · The Kneeling Goddess as Nacho Gutiérrez
- 1947 · Fiesta as Antonio Morales
- 1946 · Pepita Jimenez as Don Pedro Vargas
- 1945 · Hit the Hay as Mario Alvini
- 1945 · Man Alive as Prof. Zorado
- 1945 · The Red Dragon as Insp. Luis Carvero
- 1945 · A Bell for Adano as Gargano - Chief of Police
- 1945 · La pícara Susana as
- 1945 · Where Do We Go from Here? as Christopher Columbus
- 1944 · Brazil as Senor Renaldo Da Silva
- 1944 · Mrs. Parkington as Signor Cellini
- 1944 · Double Indemnity as Sam Garlopis
- 1944 · My Best Gal as Charlie
- 1944 · Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as Old Baba
- 1944 · Going My Way as Tomaso Bozanni
- 1943 · The Sultan's Daughter as Kuda
- 1943 · For Whom the Bell Tolls as Fernando
- 1943 · Dixie as Waiter
- 1943 · Five Graves to Cairo as Gen. Sebastiano
- 1942 · The Black Swan as Don Miguel (uncredited)
- 1942 · Girl Trouble as Simon Cordoba
- 1942 · Larceny, Inc. as Anton Copoulos
- 1942 · Obliging Young Lady as Chef
- 1942 · Four Jacks and a Jill as Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
- 1942 · Mr. and Mrs. North as Buano
- 1941 · Two Latins from Manhattan as Armando Rivero
- 1941 · A Yank in the R.A.F. as Louie - Headwaiter
- 1941 · Unfinished Business as Impresario
- 1941 · Moon Over Miami as Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
- 1941 · Blood and Sand as Pedro Espinosa
- 1941 · Citizen Kane as Signor Matiste
- 1941 · That Night in Rio as Pereira, the Headwaiter
- 1940 · The Mark of Zorro as Sentry (uncredited)
- 1940 · Down Argentine Way as Hotel Manager
- 1940 · I Was an Adventuress as Orchestra Leader
- 1938 · Bulldog Drummond in Africa as African Police Corporal
- 1938 · Tropic Holiday as Barrera
- 1938 · Romance in the Dark as Tenor
- 1936 · El carnaval del diablo as
- 1935 · Poderoso caballero as
- 1932 · A Successful Calamity as Pietro Rafaelo
- 1932 · Careless Lady as Rodriguez
- 1929 · Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis) as
- 1928 · Las cuatro plumas as
- 1922 · Don Juan Tenorio as Don Juan Tenorio