Fortunio Bonanova
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 13, 1895, Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
- Died
- April 2, 1969
- Movies
- 76
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1964 | Death Whistles the Blues | Comisario Fenton |
| 1964 | The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog | Inspector |
| 1963 | The Running Man | Spanish Bank Manager |
| 1959 | Thunder in the Sun | Fernando Christophe |
| 1958 | The Saga of Hemp Brown | Serge Bolanos |
| 1957 | An Affair to Remember | Courbet |
| 1956 | Jaguar | Francisco Servente |
| 1955 | Kiss Me Deadly | Carmen Trivago |
| 1955 | New York Confidential | Senor |
| 1954 | With This Ring | Senor Corelli, Opera Singer |
| 1953 | The Girl on The Roof | TV host |
| 1953 | Conquest of Cochise | Mexican Minister |
| 1953 | Second Chance | Mandy, hotel owner |
| 1953 | So This Is Love | Dr. Marafioti |
| 1953 | The Moon Is Blue | Television Performer |
| 1953 | Thunder Bay | Sheriff Antoine Chighizola |
| 1951 | Havana Rose | Ambassador DeMarco |
| 1950 | September Affair | Grazzi |
| 1950 | Nancy Goes to Rio | Ricardo Domingos |
| 1950 | Whirlpool | Feruccio di Ravallo |
| 1949 | Bad Men of Tombstone | John Mingo |
| 1948 | Adventures of Don Juan | Don Serafino Lopez |
| 1948 | Angel on the Amazon | Sebastian Ortega |
| 1948 | Romance on the High Seas | Plinio |
| 1947 | Rose of Santa Rosa | Don Manuel Ortega |
| 1947 | The Fugitive | The Governor's Cousin |
| 1947 | The Kneeling Goddess | |
| 1947 | Fiesta | Antonio Morales |
| 1946 | Monsieur Beaucaire | Don Carlos |
| 1946 | Pepita Jiménez | Don Pedro Vargas |
| 1945 | Hit the Hay | Mario Alvini |
| 1945 | Man Alive | Prof. Zorado |
| 1945 | The Red Dragon | Insp. Luis Carvero |
| 1945 | A Bell for Adano | Gargano |
| 1945 | La pícara Susana | Conde Mauricio Tonescu |
| 1945 | Where Do We Go from Here? | Christopher Columbus |
| 1944 | Brazil | Senor Renaldo Da Silva |
| 1944 | Mrs. Parkington | Signor Cellini |
| 1944 | Double Indemnity | Sam Garlopis |
| 1944 | My Best Gal | Charlie |
| 1944 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Old Baba |
| 1944 | Going My Way | Tomaso Bozanni |
| 1943 | The Sultan's Daughter | Kuda |
| 1943 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Fernando |
| 1943 | Dixie | Waiter |
| 1943 | Five Graves to Cairo | Gen. Sebastiano |
| 1942 | The Black Swan | Don Miguel (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Girl Trouble | Simon Cordoba |
| 1942 | Larceny, Inc. | Anton Copoulos |
| 1942 | Obliging Young Lady | Chef |
| 1942 | Four Jacks and a Jill | Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Mr. and Mrs. North | Buano |
| 1941 | Two Latins from Manhattan | Armando Rivero |
| 1941 | A Yank in the R.A.F. | Louie - Headwaiter |
| 1941 | Unfinished Business | Impresario |
| 1941 | Moon Over Miami | Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager |
| 1941 | Blood and Sand | Pedro Espinosa |
| 1941 | They Met in Argentina | Pedro, Ranch Blacksmith (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Citizen Kane | Signor Matiste |
| 1941 | That Night in Rio | Pereira, the Headwaiter |
| 1940 | The Mark of Zorro | Sentry (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Down Argentine Way | Hotel Manager |
| 1940 | I Was an Adventuress | Orchestra Leader |
| 1938 | Bulldog Drummond in Africa | African Police Corporal |
| 1938 | Tropic Holiday | Barrera |
| 1938 | Romance in the Dark | Tenor |
| 1936 | El carnaval del diablo | |
| 1935 | Poderoso caballero | |
| 1934 | El desaparecido | |
| 1932 | A Successful Calamity | Pietro Rafaelo |
| 1932 | Careless Lady | Rodriguez |
| 1929 | Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis) | |
| 1928 | Las cuatro plumas | |
| 1922 | Don Juan Tenorio | Don Juan Tenorio |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1929 | Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis) | Director |
| 1928 | Las cuatro plumas | Director |
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