Fortunio Bonanova
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Fortunio Bonanova has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actor with a body of work built one job at a time. The career now covers more than 104 years. In cinemas, 'Citizen Kane' is the work that stuck — Signor Matiste, specifically. Elsewhere on the filmography sits 'Double Indemnity'. Viewing habits have changed more than once since the first credit. Drama accounts for the largest share of the work.
Fortunio Bonanova
64 Movies
3 Series
Fortunio Bonanova has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actor with a body of work built one job at a time. The career now covers more than 104 years. In cinemas, 'Citizen Kane' is the work that stuck — Signor Matiste, specifically. Elsewhere on the filmography sits 'Double Indemnity'. Viewing habits have changed more than once since the first credit. Drama accounts for the largest share of the work.
Movies
Plays Signor Matiste
Citizen Kane
1941
Plays Sam Garlopis
Double Indemnity
1944
Plays Courbet
An Affair to Remember
1957
Plays Old Baba
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944
Plays Fernando
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
Plays Carmen Trivago
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
Plays Don Serafino Lopez
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
Plays Tomaso Bozanni
Going My Way
1944
Plays Pedro Espinosa
Blood and Sand
1941
Plays Spanish Bank Manager
The Running Man
1963
Plays Antonio Morales
Fiesta
1947
Plays Plinio
Romance on the High Seas
1948
Plays Gen. Sebastiano
Five Graves to Cairo
1943
Plays Rodriguez
Careless Lady
1932
Plays Chef
Obliging Young Lady
1942
Plays The Governor's Cousin
The Fugitive
1947
Plays Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
Thunder Bay
1953
Plays Feruccio di Ravallo
Whirlpool
1950
Plays Mandy, hotel owner
Second Chance
1953
Plays Anton Copoulos
Larceny, Inc.
1942
Plays Signor Cellini
Mrs. Parkington
1944
Plays Louie - Headwaiter
A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941
Plays Barrera
Tropic Holiday
1938
Plays Serge Bolanos
The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958
Plays Television Performer
The Moon Is Blue
1953
Plays Gargano - Chief of Police
A Bell for Adano
1945
Plays Senor
New York Confidential
1955
Plays Ricardo Domingos
Nancy Goes to Rio
1950
Plays Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio
1922
Plays Dr. Marafioti
So This Is Love
1953
Plays Grazzi
September Affair
1950
Plays Fernando Christophe
Thunder in the Sun
1959
Plays Comisario Fenton
Death Whistles the Blues
1964
Plays Pereira, the Headwaiter
That Night in Rio
1941
Plays Hotel Manager
Down Argentine Way
1940
Plays John Mingo
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
Plays African Police Corporal
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938
Plays Mexican Minister
Conquest of Cochise
1953
Plays Christopher Columbus
Where Do We Go from Here?
1945
Plays Pietro Rafaelo
A Successful Calamity
1932
Plays Sebastian Ortega
Angel on the Amazon
1948
Plays Senor Renaldo Da Silva
Brazil
1944
Plays Tenor
Romance in the Dark
1938
Plays Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
Moon Over Miami
1941
Plays Buano
Mr. and Mrs. North
1942
Plays Don Carlos
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
Plays Orchestra Leader
I Was an Adventuress
1940
Plays Prof. Zorado
Man Alive
1945
Plays Insp. Luis Carvero
The Red Dragon
1945
Plays Don Pedro Vargas
Pepita Jiménez
1946
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Death Whistles the Blues
Comisario Fenton
1964
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The Running Man
Spanish Bank Manager
1963
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77 Sunset Strip
Santos · 1 episode
1959–1960
TV
Thunder in the Sun
Fernando Christophe
1959
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The Saga of Hemp Brown
Serge Bolanos
1958
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An Affair to Remember
Courbet
1957
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Jaguar
Francisco Servente
1956
Film
Kiss Me Deadly
Carmen Trivago
1955
Film
New York Confidential
Senor
1955
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Fortunio Bonanova still alive?
Fortunio Bonanova passed away on April 2, 1969 at age 74.
What are the most famous roles of Fortunio Bonanova?
Fortunio Bonanova is best known for roles in Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, An Affair to Remember.
How many movies has Fortunio Bonanova been in?
Over a 47-year career (since 1922), Fortunio Bonanova has appeared in 64 movies and 3 TV shows.
What was Fortunio Bonanova's first movie?
The career of Fortunio Bonanova began with Don Juan Tenorio (1922).
What is Fortunio Bonanova's most recent movie or series?
Fortunio Bonanova's most recent release is Death Whistles the Blues, which premiered on July 4, 1964.
What TV shows has Fortunio Bonanova appeared in?
On television, Fortunio Bonanova has appeared in I Love Lucy, 77 Sunset Strip, The Abbott and Costello Show, The Count of Monte Cristo.
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.