
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.

深夜の告白

市民ケーン

I Love Lucy

めぐり逢い

キッスで殺せ!

凸凹劇場 アボット・コステロ

快傑ゾロ

Larceny, Inc.

Jaguar

熱砂の秘密

77 Sunset Strip

La diosa arrodillada

Going My Way

Adventures of Don Juan

Romance on the High Seas

The Red Dragon

The Running Man

Whirlpool

Blood and Sand

Girl Trouble

誰が為に鐘は鳴る

The Black Swan

General Electric Theater

That Night in Rio

The Saga of Hemp Brown

I Was an Adventuress

Bad Men of Tombstone

Moon Over Miami

Down Argentine Way

The Moon Is Blue

Thunder Bay

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Four Jacks and a Jill

With This Ring

Rose of Santa Rosa

December Bride

Racket Squad

Second Chance

New York Confidential

The Fugitive

Mrs. Parkington

September Affair

Tropic Holiday

Don Juan Tenorio

Nancy Goes to Rio

A Bell for Adano

Fiesta

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

Thunder in the Sun

A Yank in the R.A.F.

Monsieur Beaucaire

Unfinished Business

Where Do We Go from Here?

Careless Lady

A Successful Calamity

Pepita Jimenez

Man Alive

Conquest of Cochise

Brazil

Obliging Young Lady

Two Latins from Manhattan

La pícara Susana

Angel on the Amazon

La muerte silba un blues

Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach

The Count of Monte Cristo

Romance in the Dark

Mr. and Mrs. North

So This Is Love

Dixie

The Sultan's Daughter

My Best Gal

El carnaval del diablo

Havana Rose

Poderoso caballero

Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)

The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog