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Fortunio Bonanova

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Fortunio Bonanova

🎂 Jan 13, 1895 — 🕯️ Apr 2, 1969 (74 years) Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
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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.
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Death Whistles the Blues
Death Whistles the Blues
Comisario Fenton
1964
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The Running Man
The Running Man
Spanish Bank Manager
1963
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Thunder in the Sun
Thunder in the Sun
Fernando Christophe
1959
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77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip
Santos
1958
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The Saga of Hemp Brown
The Saga of Hemp Brown
Serge Bolanos
1958
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An Affair to Remember
An Affair to Remember
Courbet
1957
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How old is Fortunio Bonanova? Fortunio Bonanova is 131 years old. Born on January 13, 1895 in Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
How many movies has Fortunio Bonanova been in? Fortunio Bonanova has appeared in 72 movies and 8 TV shows.
What was Fortunio Bonanova's first movie? Fortunio Bonanova's first movie was Don Juan Tenorio (1922).
What are Fortunio Bonanova's best movies? The highest-rated movies by Fortunio Bonanova are: Citizen Kane (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), An Affair to Remember (1957), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Mark of Zorro (1940).
How long has Fortunio Bonanova been acting? Fortunio Bonanova has been active since 1922, 42 years with 72 movies.
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Fortunio Bonanova
Fortunio Bonanova
1895-01-13 · 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.

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