8.1
8.1
Double Indemnity
1944
as Sam Garlopis
Fortunio Bonanova
Acting
Born:January 13, 1895
Died:April 2, 1969(aged 74)
Birthplace:Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (71 movies)
8.0
8.0
Citizen Kane
1941
as Signor Matiste
7.4
7.4
An Affair to Remember
1957
as Courbet
7.2
7.2
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
as Carmen Trivago
7.0
7.0
The Mark of Zorro
1940
as Sentry (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
Jaguar
1956
as Francisco Servente
6.9
6.9
Five Graves to Cairo
1943
as Gen. Sebastiano
6.9
6.9
Larceny, Inc.
1942
as Anton Copoulos
6.7
6.7
The Kneeling Goddess
1947
6.7
6.7
Going My Way
1944
as Tomaso Bozanni
6.7
6.7
Romance on the High Seas
1948
as Plinio
6.6
6.6
The Red Dragon
1945
as Insp. Luis Carvero
6.5
6.5
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
as Fernando
6.5
6.5
The Running Man
1963
as Spanish Bank Manager
6.5
6.5
Blood and Sand
1941
as Pedro Espinosa
6.5
6.5
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
as Don Serafino Lopez
6.5
6.5
Girl Trouble
1942
as Simon Cordoba
6.4
6.4
Whirlpool
1950
as Feruccio di Ravallo
6.4
6.4
The Black Swan
1942
as Don Miguel (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
I Was an Adventuress
1940
as Orchestra Leader
6.3
6.3
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
as John Mingo
6.2
6.2
That Night in Rio
1941
as Pereira, the Headwaiter
6.2
6.2
Down Argentine Way
1940
as Hotel Manager
6.2
6.2
The Moon Is Blue
1953
as Television Performer
6.1
6.1
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944
as Old Baba
6.1
6.1
Thunder Bay
1953
as Sheriff Antoine Chighizola
6.1
6.1
The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958
as Serge Bolanos
6.1
6.1
Moon Over Miami
1941
as Mr. Pretto, the Hotel Manager
6.0
6.0
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
as Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
With This Ring
1954
as Senor Corelli, Opera Singer
6.0
6.0
Rose of Santa Rosa
1947
as Don Manuel Ortega
5.9
5.9
Second Chance
1953
as Mandy, hotel owner
5.9
5.9
The Fugitive
1947
as The Governor's Cousin
5.9
5.9
Mrs. Parkington
1944
as Signor Cellini
5.8
5.8
September Affair
1950
as Grazzi
5.8
5.8
Tropic Holiday
1938
as Barrera
5.8
5.8
Don Juan Tenorio
1922
as Don Juan Tenorio
5.7
5.7
Nancy Goes to Rio
1950
as Ricardo Domingos
5.7
5.7
A Bell for Adano
1945
as Gargano - Chief of Police
5.5
5.5
Thunder in the Sun
1959
as Fernando Christophe
5.5
5.5
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938
as African Police Corporal
5.5
5.5
A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941
as Louie - Headwaiter
5.4
5.4
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
as Don Carlos
5.3
5.3
Unfinished Business
1941
as Impresario
5.3
5.3
Where Do We Go from Here?
1945
as Christopher Columbus
5.2
5.2
Careless Lady
1932
as Rodriguez
5.2
5.2
A Successful Calamity
1932
as Pietro Rafaelo
5.2
5.2
Pepita Jimenez
1946
as Don Pedro Vargas
5.1
5.1
Man Alive
1945
as Prof. Zorado
5.1
5.1
Conquest of Cochise
1953
as Mexican Minister
5.0
5.0
Two Latins from Manhattan
1941
as Armando Rivero
5.0
5.0
La pícara Susana
1945
5.0
5.0
Obliging Young Lady
1942
as Chef
4.9
4.9
Brazil
1944
as Senor Renaldo Da Silva
4.8
4.8
Angel on the Amazon
1948
as Sebastian Ortega
4.7
4.7
Fiesta
1947
as Antonio Morales
4.5
4.5
Death Whistles the Blues
1964
as Comisario Fenton
4.4
4.4
The Girl on The Roof
1953
as TV host
4.0
4.0
Mr. and Mrs. North
1942
as Buano
3.8
3.8
So This Is Love
1953
as Dr. Marafioti
3.0
3.0
Romance in the Dark
1938
as Tenor
3.0
3.0
The Sultan's Daughter
1943
as Kuda
3.0
3.0
Dixie
1943
as Waiter
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
1964
as Inspector
Poderoso caballero
1935
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
1929
Director
Las cuatro plumas
1928
Director
My Best Gal
1944
as Charlie
El carnaval del diablo
1936
Hit the Hay
1945
as Mario Alvini
Havana Rose
1951
as Ambassador DeMarco
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