
Fortunio Bonanova
- Atuação
- 13 de janeiro de 1895 – 2 de abril de 1969 · com 74 anos
- Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
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.
Principais trabalhos
Filmografia31
- 1964
- 1963
- 1958
77 Sunset StripSérie7.2
- 1957
- 1956
The Count of Monte CristoSérie5.6
- 1955
- 1954
December BrideSérie6.2
- 1953
Second ChanceFilme6.0
The Moon Is BlueFilme6.3
Thunder BayFilme6.0
General Electric TheaterSérie6.8
- 1952
The Abbott and Costello ShowSérie7.2
- 1951
I Love LucySérie7.9
Racket SquadSérie6.5
- 1950
WhirlpoolFilme6.4
- 1948
- 1947
The FugitiveFilme6.0
FiestaFilme6.2
- 1945
A Bell for AdanoFilme6.0
- 1944
BrazilFilme5.2
Mrs. ParkingtonFilme6.0

Ali Baba and the Forty ThievesFilme6.2
- 1943
- 1942
- 1941
A Yank in the R.A.F.Filme5.6
Blood and SandFilme6.5

- 1940
The Mark of ZorroFilme7.2
Down Argentine WayFilme6.4







