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 Lluís Moll

Biography

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.

Fortunio Bonanova

Fortunio Bonanova

Biography

Citizen Kane

Double Indemnity

Girl Trouble

The Black Swan

For Whom the Bell Tolls

An Affair to Remember

Kiss Me Deadly

Havana Rose

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Fiesta

Five Graves to Cairo

Going My Way

The Moon Is Blue

The Mark of Zorro

Careless Lady

A Bell for Adano

Adventures of Don Juan

Dixie

Whirlpool

Jaguar

Romance on the High Seas

The Running Man

The Fugitive

A Yank in the R.A.F.

Obliging Young Lady

El desaparecido

Four Jacks and a Jill

Where Do We Go from Here?

Larceny, Inc.

September Affair

New York Confidential

Blood and Sand

Mrs. Parkington

Brazil

Thunder in the Sun

Bad Men of Tombstone

Thunder Bay

Moon Over Miami

Nancy Goes to Rio

So This Is Love

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

Down Argentine Way

I Was an Adventuress

Monsieur Beaucaire

That Night in Rio

The Saga of Hemp Brown

Unfinished Business

The Kneeling Goddess

Don Juan Tenorio

With This Ring

A Successful Calamity

Mr. and Mrs. North

Death Whistles the Blues

Two Latins from Manhattan

Conquest of Cochise

The Red Dragon

Second Chance

The Girl on The Roof

The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog

Tropic Holiday

Rose of Santa Rosa

Pepita Jiménez

The Sultan's Daughter

Man Alive

Angel on the Amazon

My Best Gal

Romance in the Dark

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

El carnaval del diablo

Hit the Hay

Las cuatro plumas

Poderoso caballero

La pícara Susana