- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- January 13, 1895
- Place of Birth
- Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
- Died
- April 2, 1969
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 wa…
Filmography
movieDeath Whistles the Blues
1964 · Comisario Fenton
movieThe Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
1964 · Inspector
movieThe Running Man
1963 · Spanish Bank Manager
movieThunder in the Sun
1959 · Fernando Christophe
tv77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Santos
movieThe Saga of Hemp Brown
1958 · Serge Bolanos
movieAn Affair to Remember
1957 · Courbet
tvThe Count of Monte Cristo
1956
movieJaguar
1956 · Francisco Servente
movieKiss Me Deadly
1955 · Carmen Trivago
movieNew York Confidential
1955 · Senor
tvDecember Bride
1954
movieWith This Ring
1954 · Senor Corelli, Opera Singer
movieThe Girl on The Roof
1953 · TV host
movieConquest of Cochise
1953 · Mexican Minister
movieSecond Chance
1953 · Mandy, hotel owner
movieSo This Is Love
1953 · Dr. Marafioti
movieThe Moon Is Blue
1953 · Television Performer
movieThunder Bay
1953 · Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953
tvThe Abbott and Costello Show
1952 · Uncle Bozzo, Prof. Roberto
tvI Love Lucy
1951 · Professor
movieHavana Rose
1951 · Ambassador DeMarco
tvRacket Squad
1951
movieSeptember Affair
1950 · Grazzi
movieNancy Goes to Rio
1950 · Ricardo Domingos
movieWhirlpool
1950 · Feruccio di Ravallo
movieBad Men of Tombstone
1949 · John Mingo
movieAdventures of Don Juan
1948 · Don Serafino Lopez
movieAngel on the Amazon
1948 · Sebastian Ortega
movieRomance on the High Seas
1948 · Plinio
movieRose of Santa Rosa
1947 · Don Manuel Ortega
movieThe Fugitive
1947 · The Governor's Cousin
movieThe Kneeling Goddess
1947
movieFiesta
1947 · Antonio Morales
movieMonsieur Beaucaire
1946 · Don Carlos
moviePepita Jiménez
1946 · Don Pedro Vargas
Hit the Hay
movieHit the Hay
1945 · Mario Alvini
movieMan Alive
1945 · Prof. Zorado
movieThe Red Dragon
1945 · Insp. Luis Carvero
movieA Bell for Adano
1945 · Gargano - Chief of Police
movieLa pícara Susana
1945
movieWhere Do We Go from Here?
1945 · Christopher Columbus
movieBrazil
1944 · Senor Renaldo Da Silva
movieMrs. Parkington
1944 · Signor Cellini
movieDouble Indemnity
1944 · Sam Garlopis
movieMy Best Gal
1944 · Charlie
movieAli Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944 · Old Baba
movieGoing My Way
1944 · Tomaso Bozanni
movieThe Sultan's Daughter
1943 · Kuda
movieFor Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · Fernando
movieDixie
1943 · Waiter
movieFive Graves to Cairo
1943 · Gen. Sebastiano
movieThe Black Swan
1942 · Don Miguel (uncredited)
movieGirl Trouble
1942 · Simon Cordoba
movieLarceny, Inc.
1942 · Anton Copoulos
movieObliging Young Lady
1942 · Chef
movieFour Jacks and a Jill
1942 · Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
movieMr. and Mrs. North
1942 · Buano
movieTwo Latins from Manhattan
1941 · Armando Rivero
movieA Yank in the R.A.F.
1941 · Louie - Headwaiter
movieUnfinished Business
1941 · Impresario
movieMoon Over Miami
1941 · Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
movieBlood and Sand
1941 · Pedro Espinosa
movieCitizen Kane
1941 · Signor Matiste
movieThat Night in Rio
1941 · Pereira, the Headwaiter
movieThe Mark of Zorro
1940 · Sentry (uncredited)
movieDown Argentine Way
1940 · Hotel Manager
movieI Was an Adventuress
1940 · Orchestra Leader
movieBulldog Drummond in Africa
1938 · African Police Corporal
movieTropic Holiday
1938 · Barrera
movieRomance in the Dark
1938 · Tenor
movieEl carnaval del diablo
1936
moviePoderoso caballero
1935
movieEl desaparecido
1934
movieA Successful Calamity
1932 · Pietro Rafaelo
movieCareless Lady
1932 · Rodriguez
moviePacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
1929 · , Director
Las cuatro plumas
movieLas cuatro plumas
1928 · , Director, Adaptation, Editor
movieDon Juan Tenorio
1922 · Don Juan Tenorio