Fortunio Bonanova

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 pe…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Citizen Kane (1941) — Signor Matiste
2. Double Indemnity (1944) — Sam Garlopis
3. An Affair to Remember (1957) — Courbet
4. Kiss Me Deadly (1955) — Carmen Trivago
5. I Love Lucy (1951) — Professor
6. The Mark of Zorro (1940) — Sentry (uncredited)
7. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) — Fernando
8. Going My Way (1944) — Tomaso Bozanni
9. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) — Gen. Sebastiano
10. Whirlpool (1950) — Feruccio di Ravallo
11. The Black Swan (1942) — Don Miguel (uncredited)
12. Blood and Sand (1941) — Pedro Espinosa
13. The Moon Is Blue (1953) — Television Performer
14. The Fugitive (1947) — The Governor's Cousin
15. The Running Man (1963) — Spanish Bank Manager
16. Adventures of Don Juan (1948) — Don Serafino Lopez
17. Thunder Bay (1953) — Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
18. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944) — Old Baba
19. Larceny, Inc. (1942) — Anton Copoulos
20. Romance on the High Seas (1948) — Plinio
21. The Kneeling Goddess (1947)
22. Down Argentine Way (1940) — Hotel Manager
23. A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) — Louie - Headwaiter
24. Second Chance (1953) — Mandy, hotel owner
25. 77 Sunset Strip (1958) — Santos
26. September Affair (1950) — Grazzi
27. The Abbott and Costello Show (1952) — Uncle Bozzo
28. Mrs. Parkington (1944) — Signor Cellini
29. That Night in Rio (1941) — Pereira, the Headwaiter
30. New York Confidential (1955) — Senor
31. Moon Over Miami (1941) — Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
32. A Bell for Adano (1945) — Gargano - Chief of Police
33. Death Whistles the Blues (1964) — Comisario Fenton
34. Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938) — African Police Corporal
35. Brazil (1944) — Senor Renaldo Da Silva
36. Thunder in the Sun (1959) — Fernando Christophe
37. Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) — Don Carlos
38. The Red Dragon (1945) — Insp. Luis Carvero
39. I Was an Adventuress (1940) — Orchestra Leader
40. The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958) — Serge Bolanos

Directed

1. Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis) (1929) — Director
2. Las cuatro plumas (1928) — Director