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 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.
Citizen Kane
(Signor Matiste)
Double Indemnity
(Sam Garlopis)
A Yank in the R.A.F.
(Louie - Headwaiter)
Second Chance
(Mandy, hotel owner)
An Affair to Remember
(Courbet)
Adventures of Don Juan
(Don Serafino Lopez)
Whirlpool
(Feruccio di Ravallo)
New York Confidential
(Senor)
Five Graves to Cairo
(Gen. Sebastiano)
The Fugitive
(The Governor's Cousin)
Thunder Bay
(Sheriff Antoine Chighizola)
Romance on the High Seas
(Plinio)
Moon Over Miami
(Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager)
Down Argentine Way
(Hotel Manager)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
(Old Baba)
Fiesta
(Antonio Morales)
The Red Dragon
(Insp. Luis Carvero)
Mrs. Parkington
(Signor Cellini)
Larceny, Inc.
(Anton Copoulos)
The Moon Is Blue
(Television Performer)
September Affair
(Grazzi)
Nancy Goes to Rio
(Ricardo Domingos)
The Kneeling Goddess
The Saga of Hemp Brown
(Serge Bolanos)
Tropic Holiday
(Barrera)
Man Alive
(Prof. Zorado)
So This Is Love
(Dr. Marafioti)
Four Jacks and a Jill
(Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited))
With This Ring
(Senor Corelli, Opera Singer)
That Night in Rio
(Pereira, the Headwaiter)
Hit the Hay
(Mario Alvini)
Where Do We Go from Here?
(Christopher Columbus)
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
(African Police Corporal)
The Girl on The Roof
(TV host)
I Was an Adventuress
(Orchestra Leader)
Blood and Sand
(Pedro Espinosa)
Careless Lady
(Rodriguez)
Girl Trouble
(Simon Cordoba)
Dixie
(Waiter)
Pepita Jimenez
(Don Pedro Vargas)
Angel on the Amazon
(Sebastian Ortega)
My Best Gal
(Charlie)
Brazil
(Senor Renaldo Da Silva)
Going My Way
(Tomaso Bozanni)
Jaguar
(Francisco Servente)
The Sultan's Daughter
(Kuda)
The Mark of Zorro
(Sentry (uncredited))
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(Fernando)
A Successful Calamity
(Pietro Rafaelo)
Bad Men of Tombstone
(John Mingo)
Conquest of Cochise
(Mexican Minister)
Thunder in the Sun
(Fernando Christophe)
Don Juan Tenorio
(Don Juan Tenorio)
El carnaval del diablo
Unfinished Business
(Impresario)
Obliging Young Lady
(Chef)
Two Latins from Manhattan
(Armando Rivero)
La pícara Susana
Romance in the Dark
(Tenor)
Havana Rose
(Ambassador DeMarco)
Poderoso caballero
A Bell for Adano
(Gargano - Chief of Police)
Kiss Me Deadly
(Carmen Trivago)
Death Whistles the Blues
(Comisario Fenton)
Mr. and Mrs. North
(Buano)
The Running Man
(Spanish Bank Manager)
The Black Swan
(Don Miguel (uncredited))
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
(Inspector)
Las cuatro plumas
Monsieur Beaucaire
(Don Carlos)
Rose of Santa Rosa
(Don Manuel Ortega)
77 Sunset Strip
(Santos)
December Bride
General Electric Theater
I Love Lucy
(Professor)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Racket Squad
The Abbott and Costello Show
(Uncle Bozzo)
The Abbott and Costello Show
(Prof. Roberto)