Fortunio Bonanova

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-01-13 (74 years old)

Deathday

1969-04-02

Place of Birth

Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Fortunio Bonanova

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1941

Citizen Kane

as Signor Matiste

1944

Double Indemnity

as Sam Garlopis

1941

A Yank in the R.A.F.

as Louie - Headwaiter

1953

Second Chance

as Mandy, hotel owner

1957

1948

Adventures of Don Juan

as Don Serafino Lopez

1950

Whirlpool

as Feruccio di Ravallo

1943

Five Graves to Cairo

as Gen. Sebastiano

1947

The Fugitive

as The Governor's Cousin

1953

Thunder Bay

as Sheriff Antoine Chighizola

1941

Moon Over Miami

as Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager

1940

Down Argentine Way

as Hotel Manager

1947

Fiesta

as Antonio Morales

1945

The Red Dragon

as Insp. Luis Carvero

1944

Mrs. Parkington

as Signor Cellini

1942

Larceny, Inc.

as Anton Copoulos

1953

The Moon Is Blue

as Television Performer

1950

1950

Nancy Goes to Rio

as Ricardo Domingos

1958

The Saga of Hemp Brown

as Serge Bolanos

1938

Tropic Holiday

as Barrera

1945

Man Alive

as Prof. Zorado

1953

So This Is Love

as Dr. Marafioti

1942

Four Jacks and a Jill

as Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)

1954

With This Ring

as Senor Corelli, Opera Singer

1941

That Night in Rio

as Pereira, the Headwaiter

1945

Hit the Hay

as Mario Alvini

1945

Where Do We Go from Here?

as Christopher Columbus

1938

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

as African Police Corporal

1953

1940

I Was an Adventuress

as Orchestra Leader

1941

Blood and Sand

as Pedro Espinosa

1932

Careless Lady

as Rodriguez

1942

Girl Trouble

as Simon Cordoba

1943

Dixie

as Waiter

1946

Pepita Jimenez

as Don Pedro Vargas

1948

Angel on the Amazon

as Sebastian Ortega

1944

My Best Gal

as Charlie

1944

Brazil

as Senor Renaldo Da Silva

1944

Going My Way

as Tomaso Bozanni

1956

Jaguar

as Francisco Servente

1940

The Mark of Zorro

as Sentry (uncredited)

1932

A Successful Calamity

as Pietro Rafaelo

1949

1953

Conquest of Cochise

as Mexican Minister

1959

Thunder in the Sun

as Fernando Christophe

1922

Don Juan Tenorio

as Don Juan Tenorio

1941

Unfinished Business

as Impresario

1941

Two Latins from Manhattan

as Armando Rivero

1951

Havana Rose

as Ambassador DeMarco

1945

A Bell for Adano

as Gargano - Chief of Police

1955

Kiss Me Deadly

as Carmen Trivago

1964

Death Whistles the Blues

as Comisario Fenton

1942

1963

The Running Man

as Spanish Bank Manager

1942

The Black Swan

as Don Miguel (uncredited)

1946

Monsieur Beaucaire

as Don Carlos

Production

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