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.
    Known for
    Acting
    Place of birth
    Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
    Birthday
    1/13/1895
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane
8
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity
8.1
A Yank in the R.A.F.
A Yank in the R.A.F.
5.5
Second Chance
Second Chance
5.9
An Affair to Remember
An Affair to Remember
7.4
Adventures of Don Juan
Adventures of Don Juan
6.4
Whirlpool
Whirlpool
6.4
New York Confidential
New York Confidential
5.8
Five Graves to Cairo
Five Graves to Cairo
6.9
Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
6.1
The Fugitive
The Fugitive
5.9
Romance on the High Seas
Romance on the High Seas
6.8
Moon Over Miami
Moon Over Miami
6.1
Down Argentine Way
Down Argentine Way
6
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
6.2
Fiesta
Fiesta
4.7
The Red Dragon
The Red Dragon
6.1
Mrs. Parkington
Mrs. Parkington
6
Larceny, Inc.
Larceny, Inc.
7
The Moon Is Blue
The Moon Is Blue
6.4
September Affair
September Affair
6
Nancy Goes to Rio
Nancy Goes to Rio
5.7
The Kneeling Goddess
The Kneeling Goddess
6.6
The Saga of Hemp Brown
The Saga of Hemp Brown
5.6
Tropic Holiday
Tropic Holiday
5
Man Alive
Man Alive
5.1
So This Is Love
So This Is Love
5.5
Four Jacks and a Jill
Four Jacks and a Jill
6
With This Ring
With This Ring
0
That Night in Rio
That Night in Rio
6.2
Hit the Hay
0
Where Do We Go from Here?
Where Do We Go from Here?
5.3
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
5.5
The Girl on The Roof
The Girl on The Roof
4.4
I Was an Adventuress
I Was an Adventuress
6.3
Blood and Sand
Blood and Sand
6.4
Careless Lady
Careless Lady
5.3
Girl Trouble
Girl Trouble
6.5
Dixie
Dixie
3
Pepita Jimenez
Pepita Jimenez
4.8
Angel on the Amazon
Angel on the Amazon
4.8
My Best Gal
My Best Gal
0
Brazil
Brazil
5.2
Going My Way
Going My Way
6.7
Jaguar
Jaguar
7
The Sultan's Daughter
The Sultan's Daughter
3
The Mark of Zorro
The Mark of Zorro
7
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls
6.5
A Successful Calamity
A Successful Calamity
5.2
Bad Men of Tombstone
Bad Men of Tombstone
6.3
Conquest of Cochise
Conquest of Cochise
5.1
Thunder in the Sun
Thunder in the Sun
6
Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio
5.8
El carnaval del diablo
El carnaval del diablo
0
Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business
5.3
Obliging Young Lady
Obliging Young Lady
5
Two Latins from Manhattan
Two Latins from Manhattan
5
La pícara Susana
La pícara Susana
5
Romance in the Dark
Romance in the Dark
3
Havana Rose
Havana Rose
0
Poderoso caballero
Poderoso caballero
0
A Bell for Adano
A Bell for Adano
5.5
Kiss Me Deadly
Kiss Me Deadly
7.2
Death Whistles the Blues
Death Whistles the Blues
4.4
Mr. and Mrs. North
Mr. and Mrs. North
4.5
The Running Man
The Running Man
6.6
The Black Swan
The Black Swan
6.4
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
0
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
0
Las cuatro plumas
0
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