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 Kanes 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.
Signor Matiste
Filme 1941
Sam Garlopis
Filme 1944
Louie - Headwaiter
Filme 1941
Mandy, hotel owner
Filme 1953
Courbet
Filme 1957
Don Serafino Lopez
Filme 1948
Feruccio di Ravallo
Filme 1950
Senor
Filme 1955
Gen. Sebastiano
Filme 1943
Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
Filme 1953
The Governor's Cousin
Filme 1947
Plinio
Filme 1948
Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
Filme 1941
Hotel Manager
Filme 1940
Old Baba
Filme 1944
Antonio Morales
Filme 1947
Insp. Luis Carvero
Filme 1945
Signor Cellini
Filme 1944
Anton Copoulos
Filme 1942
Television Performer
Filme 1953
Grazzi
Filme 1950
Nacho Gutiérrez
Filme 1947
Serge Bolanos
Filme 1958
Prof. Zorado
Filme 1945
Dr. Marafioti
Filme 1953
Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
Filme 1942
Filme 1954
Pereira, the Headwaiter
Filme 1941
Mario Alvini
Filme 1945
African Police Corporal
Filme 1938
TV host
Filme 1953
Orchestra Leader
Filme 1940
Pedro Espinosa
Filme 1941
Rodriguez
Filme 1932
Simon Cordoba
Filme 1942
Waiter
Filme 1943
Don Pedro Vargas
Filme 1946
Sebastian Ortega
Filme 1948
Charlie
Filme 1944
Senor Renaldo Da Silva
Filme 1944
Tomaso Bozanni
Filme 1944
Francisco Servente
Filme 1956
Kuda
Filme 1943
Sentry (uncredited)
Filme 1940
Fernando
Filme 1943
Pietro Rafaelo
Filme 1932
John Mingo
Filme 1949
Mexican Minister
Filme 1953
Fernando Christophe
Filme 1959
Don Juan Tenorio
Filme 1922
Filme 1936
Impresario
Filme 1941
Chef
Filme 1942
Armando Rivero
Filme 1941
Filme 1945
Tenor
Filme 1938
Ambassador DeMarco
Filme 1951
Filme 1935
Gargano - Chief of Police
Filme 1945
Carmen Trivago
Filme 1955
Comisario Fenton
Filme 1964
Buano
Filme 1942
Don Miguel (uncredited)
Filme 1942
Filme 1929
Inspector
Filme 1964
Filme 1928
Don Carlos
Filme 1946
Tv 1954
Tv 1953
Tv 1956
Tv 1951