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