Cast
Fortunio Bonanova
Acting
Cast
Fortunio Bonanova
Known for
Acting
Born
1895-01-13
From
Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Died
1969-04-02
Also known as Josep LluĂs Moll
Biography
Fortunio Bonanova, pseudonym of Josep LluĂs Moll, (13 January 1895 â 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 FĂ bregas 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 TannhĂ€user, 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 CanciĂłn del Olvido ("The song of forgetting"), La Duquesa del TabarĂn ("The Duchess of TabarĂn"), Los Gavilanes, and La MonterĂa. 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 MĂ ximo 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 CapitĂĄn 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.
Citizen Kane
as Signor Matiste
Double Indemnity
as Sam Garlopis
Fiesta
as Antonio Morales
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Fernando
An Affair to Remember
as Courbet
Adventures of Don Juan
as Don Serafino Lopez
The Black Swan
as Don Miguel (uncredited)
Second Chance
as Mandy, hotel owner
Brazil
as Senor Renaldo Da Silva
Careless Lady
as Rodriguez
Mrs. Parkington
as Signor Cellini
Kiss Me Deadly
as Carmen Trivago
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
as Old Baba
The Mark of Zorro
as Sentry (uncredited)
Tropic Holiday
as Barrera
Going My Way
as Tomaso Bozanni
Five Graves to Cairo
as Gen. Sebastiano
The Fugitive
as The Governor's Cousin
Blood and Sand
as Pedro Espinosa
Man Alive
as Prof. Zorado
The Running Man
as Spanish Bank Manager
Whirlpool
as Feruccio di Ravallo
Thunder Bay
as Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
Poderoso caballero
Dixie
as Waiter
Romance on the High Seas
as Plinio
The Moon Is Blue
as Television Performer
Havana Rose
as Ambassador DeMarco
A Bell for Adano
as Gargano - Chief of Police
Unfinished Business
as Impresario
A Yank in the R.A.F.
as Louie - Headwaiter
So This Is Love
as Dr. Marafioti
September Affair
as Grazzi
The Saga of Hemp Brown
as Serge Bolanos
Thunder in the Sun
as Fernando Christophe
Obliging Young Lady
as Chef
Larceny, Inc.
as Anton Copoulos
New York Confidential
as Senor
Down Argentine Way
as Hotel Manager
A Successful Calamity
as Pietro Rafaelo
Jaguar
as Francisco Servente
Pepita Jiménez
as Don Pedro Vargas
Death Whistles the Blues
as Comisario Fenton
Conquest of Cochise
as Mexican Minister
That Night in Rio
as Pereira, the Headwaiter
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
as Inspector
Where Do We Go from Here?
as Christopher Columbus
Monsieur Beaucaire
as Don Carlos
I Was an Adventuress
as Orchestra Leader
The Sultan's Daughter
as Kuda
Nancy Goes to Rio
as Ricardo Domingos
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
as African Police Corporal
Moon Over Miami
as Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
Mr. and Mrs. North
as Buano
Girl Trouble
as Simon Cordoba
Bad Men of Tombstone
as John Mingo
The Kneeling Goddess
Angel on the Amazon
as Sebastian Ortega
Romance in the Dark
as Tenor
The Red Dragon
as Insp. Luis Carvero
My Best Gal
as Charlie
Four Jacks and a Jill
as Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
Las cuatro plumas
With This Ring
as Senor Corelli, Opera Singer
Two Latins from Manhattan
as Armando Rivero
El carnaval del diablo
Don Juan Tenorio
as Don Juan Tenorio
Rose of Santa Rosa
as Don Manuel Ortega
The Girl on The Roof
as TV host
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
Hit the Hay
as Mario Alvini
