Fortunio Bonanova
1895-01-13 ( 130 years old ) in 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.

Movies

Death Whistles the Blues 1964-07-04
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog 1964-01-05
The Running Man 1963-10-01
Thunder in the Sun 1959-04-08
The Saga of Hemp Brown 1958-10-01
An Affair to Remember 1957-07-11
Jaguar 1956-01-19
Kiss Me Deadly 1955-04-28
New York Confidential 1955-02-15
With This Ring 1954-01-01
The Girl on The Roof 1953-12-16
Conquest of Cochise 1953-09-01
Second Chance 1953-07-18
So This Is Love 1953-07-15
The Moon Is Blue 1953-07-08
Thunder Bay 1953-05-21
Havana Rose 1951-09-15
September Affair 1950-10-18
Nancy Goes to Rio 1950-03-10
Whirlpool 1950-01-13
Bad Men of Tombstone 1949-01-21
Adventures of Don Juan 1948-12-24
Angel on the Amazon 1948-11-01
Romance on the High Seas 1948-06-25
The Fugitive 1947-11-11
The Kneeling Goddess 1947-08-13
Fiesta 1947-06-12
Monsieur Beaucaire 1946-09-04
Pepita Jimenez 1946-02-22
Hit the Hay 1945-11-29
Man Alive 1945-11-16
The Red Dragon 1945-08-01
A Bell for Adano 1945-06-21
La pícara Susana 1945-05-31
Where Do We Go from Here? 1945-05-23
Brazil 1944-11-30
Mrs. Parkington 1944-10-12
Double Indemnity 1944-07-06
My Best Gal 1944-03-28
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 1944-01-14
Going My Way 1944-01-01
The Sultan's Daughter 1943-12-16
For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943-07-12
Dixie 1943-06-23
Five Graves to Cairo 1943-05-26
The Black Swan 1942-12-04
Girl Trouble 1942-10-09
Larceny, Inc. 1942-04-24
Obliging Young Lady 1942-04-01
Four Jacks and a Jill 1942-01-23
Mr. and Mrs. North 1942-01-23
Two Latins from Manhattan 1941-10-02
A Yank in the R.A.F. 1941-09-26
Unfinished Business 1941-08-27
Moon Over Miami 1941-07-04
Blood and Sand 1941-05-30
Citizen Kane 1941-04-17
That Night in Rio 1941-04-11
The Mark of Zorro 1940-11-08
Down Argentine Way 1940-10-11
I Was an Adventuress 1940-05-10
Bulldog Drummond in Africa 1938-08-05
Tropic Holiday 1938-06-29
Romance in the Dark 1938-03-24
El carnaval del diablo 1936-12-01
Poderoso caballero 1935-01-01
A Successful Calamity 1932-09-17
Careless Lady 1932-04-02
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis) 1929-01-01
Las cuatro plumas 1928-12-22
Don Juan Tenorio 1922-10-26

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