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Fortunio Bonanova

Fortunio Bonanova
  • Name: Fortunio Bonanova
  • Birthday: 1895-01-13
  • Also known as: Josep Lluís Moll
  • Place of birth: Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
  • Popularity: 2.708
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 and Jorge Luis Borges (who was briefly... Read More

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Title Release date
Death Whistles the Blues   as  Comisario Fenton 1964-07-04
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog   as  Inspector 1964-01-05
The Running Man   as  Spanish Bank Manager 1963-10-01
Thunder in the Sun   as  Fernando Christophe 1959-04-08
The Saga of Hemp Brown   as  Serge Bolanos 1958-10-01
An Affair to Remember   as  Courbet 1957-07-11
Jaguar   as  Francisco Servente 1956-01-19
Kiss Me Deadly   as  Carmen Trivago 1955-04-28
New York Confidential   as  Senor 1955-02-15
With This Ring 1954-01-01
The Girl on The Roof   as  TV host 1953-12-16
Conquest of Cochise   as  Mexican Minister 1953-09-01
Second Chance   as  Mandy, hotel owner 1953-07-18
So This Is Love   as  Dr. Marafioti 1953-07-15
The Moon Is Blue   as  Television Performer 1953-07-08
Thunder Bay   as  Sheriff Antoine Chighizola 1953-05-21
Havana Rose   as  Ambassador DeMarco 1951-09-15
September Affair   as  Grazzi 1950-10-18
Nancy Goes to Rio   as  Ricardo Domingos 1950-03-10
Whirlpool   as  Feruccio di Ravallo 1950-01-13
Bad Men of Tombstone   as  John Mingo 1949-01-21
Adventures of Don Juan   as  Don Serafino Lopez 1948-12-24
Angel on the Amazon   as  Sebastian Ortega 1948-11-01
Romance on the High Seas   as  Plinio 1948-06-25
The Fugitive   as  The Governor's Cousin 1947-11-11
The Kneeling Goddess   as  Nacho Gutiérrez 1947-08-13
Fiesta   as  Antonio Morales 1947-06-12
Monsieur Beaucaire   as  Don Carlos 1946-09-04
Pepita Jimenez   as  Don Pedro Vargas 1946-02-22
Hit the Hay   as  Mario Alvini 1945-11-29
Man Alive   as  Prof. Zorado 1945-11-16
The Red Dragon   as  Insp. Luis Carvero 1945-08-01
A Bell for Adano   as  Gargano - Chief of Police 1945-06-21
La pícara Susana 1945-05-31
Where Do We Go from Here?   as  Christopher Columbus 1945-05-23
Brazil   as  Senor Renaldo Da Silva 1944-11-30
Mrs. Parkington   as  Signor Cellini 1944-10-12
Double Indemnity   as  Sam Garlopis 1944-07-06
My Best Gal   as  Charlie 1944-03-28
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves   as  Old Baba 1944-01-14
Going My Way   as  Tomaso Bozanni 1944-01-01
The Sultan's Daughter   as  Kuda 1943-12-16
For Whom the Bell Tolls   as  Fernando 1943-07-12
Dixie   as  Waiter 1943-06-23
Five Graves to Cairo   as  Gen. Sebastiano 1943-05-26
The Black Swan   as  Don Miguel (uncredited) 1942-12-04
Girl Trouble   as  Simon Cordoba 1942-10-09
Larceny, Inc.   as  Anton Copoulos 1942-04-24
Obliging Young Lady   as  Chef 1942-04-01
Mr. and Mrs. North   as  Buano 1942-01-23
Four Jacks and a Jill   as  Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited) 1942-01-23
Two Latins from Manhattan   as  Armando Rivero 1941-10-02
A Yank in the R.A.F.   as  Louie - Headwaiter 1941-09-26
Unfinished Business   as  Impresario 1941-08-27
Moon Over Miami   as  Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager 1941-07-04
Blood and Sand   as  Pedro Espinosa 1941-05-30
Citizen Kane   as  Signor Matiste 1941-04-17
That Night in Rio   as  Pereira, the Headwaiter 1941-04-11
The Mark of Zorro   as  Sentry (uncredited) 1940-11-08
Down Argentine Way   as  Hotel Manager 1940-10-11
I Was an Adventuress   as  Orchestra Leader 1940-05-10
Bulldog Drummond in Africa   as  African Police Corporal 1938-08-05
Tropic Holiday   as  Barrera 1938-06-29
Romance in the Dark   as  Tenor 1938-03-24
El carnaval del diablo 1936-12-01
Poderoso caballero 1935-01-01
A Successful Calamity   as  Pietro Rafaelo 1932-09-17
Careless Lady   as  Rodriguez 1932-04-02
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis) 1929-01-01
Las cuatro plumas 1928-12-22
Don Juan Tenorio   as  Don Juan Tenorio 1922-10-26