Fortunio Bonanova
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.
Citizen Kane
as Signor MatisteNewspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a...
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Going My Way
as Tomaso BozanniYouthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining...
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Double Indemnity
as Sam GarlopisA rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he...
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Kiss Me Deadly
as Carmen TrivagoOne evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country...
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An Affair to Remember
as CourbetA couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will...
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The Mark of Zorro
as Sentry (uncredited)Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under...
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The Black Swan
as Don Miguel (uncredited)When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
as FernandoSpain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil...
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Blood and Sand
as Pedro EspinosaBullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who...
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Down Argentine Way
as Hotel ManagerThe story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an...
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Five Graves to Cairo
as Gen. SebastianoThe British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian...
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Whirlpool
as Feruccio di RavalloThe wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an...
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The Moon Is Blue
as Television PerformerTwo aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by...
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
as Old BabaOrphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets...
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Adventures of Don Juan
as Don Serafino LopezSpanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a...
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Romance on the High Seas
as PlinioGeorgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself...
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Man Alive
as Prof. ZoradoA reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
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Death Whistles the Blues
as Comisario FentonVogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was...
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The Fugitive
as The Governor's CousinAnti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary...
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That Night in Rio
as Pereira, the HeadwaiterAn entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to...
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Larceny, Inc.
as Anton CopoulosThree ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they...
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The Running Man
as Spanish Bank ManagerAn Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own...
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Mrs. Parkington
as Signor CelliniIn this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid...
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New York Confidential
as SenorStory follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who...
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A Bell for Adano
as Gargano - Chief of PoliceMajor Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano....
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The Kneeling Goddess
as Nacho GutiérrezBusinessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife...
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Second Chance
as Mandy, hotel ownerA prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.
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The Saga of Hemp Brown
as Serge BolanosEx-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown....
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Thunder Bay
as Sheriff Antoine ChighizolaShrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
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Moon Over Miami
as Mr. Pretto, the Hotel ManagerAfter losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses...
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
as Louie - HeadwaiterAn American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to...
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September Affair
as GrazziAn industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they...
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Thunder in the Sun
as Fernando ChristopheA band of Basque immigrants treks through the Old West toward California, where they hope to put...
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Unfinished Business
as ImpresarioStarting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the...
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The Red Dragon
as Insp. Luis CarveroChan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with...
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So This Is Love
as Dr. MarafiotiFilm biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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Four Jacks and a Jill
as Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in...
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Monsieur Beaucaire
as Don CarlosA bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he...
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Where Do We Go from Here?
as Christopher ColumbusBill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has...
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Obliging Young Lady
as ChefA woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents'...
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Angel on the Amazon
as Sebastian OrtegaAn expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the...
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Conquest of Cochise
as Mexican MinisterA cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is...
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The Sultan's Daughter
as KudaA sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.
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Tropic Holiday
as BarreraA screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the...
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Bad Men of Tombstone
as John MingoA marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.
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Havana Rose
as Ambassador DeMarcoAmbassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his...
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Romance in the Dark
as TenorA baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.
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Fiesta
as Antonio MoralesWhen a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the...
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Careless Lady
as RodriguezInnocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the...
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Pepita Jimenez
as Don Pedro VargasOn March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first...
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
as African Police CorporalDrummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to...
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The Girl on The Roof
as TV hostA comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy...
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A Successful Calamity
as Pietro RafaeloHenry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie'...
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Brazil
as Senor Renaldo Da SilvaBrazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito...
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Jaguar
as Francisco ServenteOil explorers suspect a South American jungle boy of murder.
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With This Ring
as uncreditedDramatised promotional film for the Miller Brewing Company.
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The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
as InspectorHector, the dog of an officer of the merchant navy, wanders during a stopover in Lisbon....
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Nancy Goes to Rio
as Ricardo DomingosMother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
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I Was an Adventuress
as Orchestra LeaderPosing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her...
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Two Latins from Manhattan
as Armando RiveroJoan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry...
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Mr. and Mrs. North
as BuanoMarried sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up...
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Dixie
as WaiterA young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he...
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My Best Gal
as CharlieA girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
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Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
as uncreditedJuan is summoned by Goldenberg to offer him a job in the cheap business. To get away from him,...
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Girl Trouble
as Simon CordobaA South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
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Don Juan Tenorio
as Don Juan TenorioDon Juan Tenorio makes a bet with a friend as to which of them will commit more outrages in a...
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La pícara Susana
as uncreditedSocialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball...
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I Love Lucy
as ProfessorCuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife....
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December Bride
as uncreditedDecember Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959,...
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77 Sunset Strip
as SantosStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...
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Racket Squad
as uncreditedRacket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock,...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
as uncreditedThe Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very...
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General Electric Theater
as uncreditedGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
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