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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 13, 1895
Died
April 2, 1969
Place of Birth
Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Also Known As
- Josep Lluís Moll
Fortunio Bonanova
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
4.5
Comisario Fenton
Death Whistles the Blues
1964
0.0
Inspector
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
1964
6.6
Spanish Bank Manager
The Running Man
1963
5.5
Fernando Christophe
Thunder in the Sun
1959
6.7
Santos
77 Sunset Strip
1958
6.3
Serge Bolanos
The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958
7.4
Courbet
An Affair to Remember
1957
4.4
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
7.0
Francisco Servente
Jaguar
1956
7.2
Carmen Trivago
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
Credits
Death Whistles the Blues
as Comisario Fenton
1964
4.5
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
as Inspector
1964
0.0
The Running Man
as Spanish Bank Manager
1963
6.6
Thunder in the Sun
as Fernando Christophe
1959
5.5
77 Sunset Strip
as Santos
1958
6.7
The Saga of Hemp Brown
as Serge Bolanos
1958
6.3
An Affair to Remember
as Courbet
1957
7.4
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
4.4
Jaguar
as Francisco Servente
1956
7.0
Kiss Me Deadly
as Carmen Trivago
1955
7.2
New York Confidential
as Senor
1955
5.9
December Bride
1954
5.5
With This Ring
as Senor Corelli, Opera Singer
1954
6.0
The Girl on The Roof
as TV host
1953
4.4
Conquest of Cochise
as Mexican Minister
1953
5.1
Second Chance
as Mandy, hotel owner
1953
5.9
So This Is Love
as Dr. Marafioti
1953
3.8
The Moon Is Blue
as Television Performer
1953
6.2
Thunder Bay
as Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
1953
6.1
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Uncle Bozzo
1952
7.2
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Prof. Roberto
1952
7.2
I Love Lucy
as Professor
1951
7.9
Havana Rose
as Ambassador DeMarco
1951
0.0
Racket Squad
1951
6.0
September Affair
as Grazzi
1950
5.8
Nancy Goes to Rio
as Ricardo Domingos
1950
5.7
Whirlpool
as Feruccio di Ravallo
1950
6.4
Bad Men of Tombstone
as John Mingo
1949
6.3
Adventures of Don Juan
as Don Serafino Lopez
1948
6.6
Angel on the Amazon
as Sebastian Ortega
1948
4.8
Romance on the High Seas
as Plinio
1948
6.7
Rose of Santa Rosa
as Don Manuel Ortega
1947
6.0
The Fugitive
as The Governor's Cousin
1947
5.9
The Kneeling Goddess
1947
6.7
Fiesta
as Antonio Morales
1947
4.7
Monsieur Beaucaire
as Don Carlos
1946
5.4
Pepita Jimenez
as Don Pedro Vargas
1946
5.2
🎬
Hit the Hay
as Mario Alvini
1945
0.0
Man Alive
as Prof. Zorado
1945
5.1
The Red Dragon
as Insp. Luis Carvero
1945
6.6
A Bell for Adano
as Gargano - Chief of Police
1945
5.7
La pícara Susana
1945
5.0
Where Do We Go from Here?
as Christopher Columbus
1945
5.3
Brazil
as Senor Renaldo Da Silva
1944
4.9
Mrs. Parkington
as Signor Cellini
1944
5.9
Double Indemnity
as Sam Garlopis
1944
8.1
My Best Gal
as Charlie
1944
0.0
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
as Old Baba
1944
6.1
Going My Way
as Tomaso Bozanni
1944
6.7
The Sultan's Daughter
as Kuda
1943
3.0
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Fernando
1943
6.5
Dixie
as Waiter
1943
3.0
Five Graves to Cairo
as Gen. Sebastiano
1943
6.9
The Black Swan
as Don Miguel (uncredited)
1942
6.5
Girl Trouble
as Simon Cordoba
1942
6.5
Larceny, Inc.
as Anton Copoulos
1942
7.0
Obliging Young Lady
as Chef
1942
5.0
Mr. and Mrs. North
as Buano
1942
4.0
Four Jacks and a Jill
as Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
1942
6.0
Two Latins from Manhattan
as Armando Rivero
1941
5.0
A Yank in the R.A.F.
as Louie - Headwaiter
1941
5.5
Unfinished Business
as Impresario
1941
5.3
Moon Over Miami
as Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
1941
6.1
Blood and Sand
as Pedro Espinosa
1941
6.5
Citizen Kane
as Signor Matiste
1941
8.0
That Night in Rio
as Pereira, the Headwaiter
1941
6.2
The Mark of Zorro
as Sentry (uncredited)
1940
7.1
Down Argentine Way
as Hotel Manager
1940
6.2
I Was an Adventuress
as Orchestra Leader
1940
6.3
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
as African Police Corporal
1938
5.5
Tropic Holiday
as Barrera
1938
5.8
Romance in the Dark
as Tenor
1938
3.0
El carnaval del diablo
1936
0.0
Poderoso caballero
1935
0.0
A Successful Calamity
as Pietro Rafaelo
1932
5.2
Careless Lady
as Rodriguez
1932
5.2
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
1929
0.0
🎬
Las cuatro plumas
1928
0.0
Don Juan Tenorio
as Don Juan Tenorio
1922
5.8