Fortunio Bonanova
Known for Acting · 79 credits
- Born
- 1895-01-13
- Died
- 1969-04-02
- Place of birth
- Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
- 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.
Known For
TV Shows (7)
Movies (72)
Citizen Kane
1941
as Signor Matiste
Double Indemnity
1944
as Sam Garlopis
An Affair to Remember
1957
as Courbet
The Black Swan
1942
as Don Miguel (uncredited)
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
as Carmen Trivago
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
as Fernando
Careless Lady
1932
as Rodriguez
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
as Don Serafino Lopez
Brazil
1944
as Senor Renaldo Da Silva
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944
as Old Baba
Whirlpool
1950
as Feruccio di Ravallo
Fiesta
1947
as Antonio Morales
The Mark of Zorro
1940
as Sentry (uncredited)
Second Chance
1953
as Mandy, hotel owner
The Fugitive
1947
as The Governor's Cousin
Tropic Holiday
1938
as Barrera
Blood and Sand
1941
as Pedro Espinosa
Going My Way
1944
as Tomaso Bozanni
Five Graves to Cairo
1943
as Gen. Sebastiano
Romance on the High Seas
1948
as Plinio
The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958
as Serge Bolanos
Mrs. Parkington
1944
as Signor Cellini
A Bell for Adano
1945
as Gargano - Chief of Police
The Running Man
1963
as Spanish Bank Manager
September Affair
1950
as Grazzi
Thunder Bay
1953
as Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
Down Argentine Way
1940
as Hotel Manager
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
as Don Carlos
A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941
as Louie - Headwaiter
The Moon Is Blue
1953
as Television Performer
Girl Trouble
1942
as Simon Cordoba
Thunder in the Sun
1959
as Fernando Christophe
New York Confidential
1955
as Senor
Havana Rose
1951
as Ambassador DeMarco
Pepita Jiménez
1946
as Don Pedro Vargas
Angel on the Amazon
1948
as Sebastian Ortega
So This Is Love
1953
as Dr. Marafioti
The Sultan's Daughter
1943
as Kuda
Poderoso caballero
1935
Dixie
1943
as Waiter
The Kneeling Goddess
1947
Conquest of Cochise
1953
as Mexican Minister
Man Alive
1945
as Prof. Zorado
I Was an Adventuress
1940
as Orchestra Leader
Obliging Young Lady
1942
as Chef
Larceny, Inc.
1942
as Anton Copoulos
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
1964
as Inspector
Where Do We Go from Here?
1945
as Christopher Columbus
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938
as African Police Corporal
Nancy Goes to Rio
1950
as Ricardo Domingos
Jaguar
1956
as Francisco Servente
Death Whistles the Blues
1964
as Comisario Fenton
Moon Over Miami
1941
as Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
A Successful Calamity
1932
as Pietro Rafaelo
My Best Gal
1944
as Charlie
Unfinished Business
1941
as Impresario
Mr. and Mrs. North
1942
as Buano
The Red Dragon
1945
as Insp. Luis Carvero
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
as John Mingo
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
as Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
That Night in Rio
1941
as Pereira, the Headwaiter
With This Ring
1954
as Senor Corelli, Opera Singer
Romance in the Dark
1938
as Tenor
Two Latins from Manhattan
1941
as Armando Rivero
The Girl on The Roof
1953
as TV host
Las cuatro plumas
1928
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
1929
Hit the Hay
1945
as Mario Alvini
El carnaval del diablo
1936
Don Juan Tenorio
1922
as Don Juan Tenorio
Rose of Santa Rosa
1947
as Don Manuel Ortega
La pícara Susana
1945
About 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 Tan… With 79 credits spanning from 1922 to 1964, Fortunio Bonanova has appeared in 72 films and 7 TV shows.
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- Citizen Kane (1941) — as Signor Matiste
- Double Indemnity (1944) — as Sam Garlopis
- An Affair to Remember (1957) — as Courbet
- The Black Swan (1942) — as Don Miguel (uncredited)
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) — as Carmen Trivago
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