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Fortunio Bonanova

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Nascita
13 gennaio 1895 · Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Morte
2 aprile 1969

Biografia

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.

Noto per

Locandina di Quarto potere
Quarto potere
Film · 1941 · ★ 8,0
Locandina di La fiamma del peccato
La fiamma del peccato
Film · 1944 · ★ 8,1
Locandina di Un amore splendido
Un amore splendido
Film · 1957 · ★ 7,4
Locandina di Un bacio e una pistola
Un bacio e una pistola
Film · 1955 · ★ 7,2
Locandina di Lucy ed io
Lucy ed io
Serie · 1951 · ★ 7,9
Locandina di Il segno di Zorro
Il segno di Zorro
Film · 1940 · ★ 7,2
Locandina di Per chi suona la campana
Per chi suona la campana
Film · 1943 · ★ 6,5
Locandina di La mia via
La mia via
Film · 1944 · ★ 6,7
Locandina di I cinque segreti del deserto
I cinque segreti del deserto
Film · 1943 · ★ 7,0
Locandina di Il segreto di una donna
Il segreto di una donna
Film · 1950 · ★ 6,4
Locandina di Il cigno nero
Il cigno nero
Film · 1942 · ★ 6,5
Locandina di Sangue e arena
Sangue e arena
Film · 1941 · ★ 6,5

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