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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.

Death Whistles the Blues
as Comisario Fenton

The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
as Inspector

The Running Man
as Spanish Bank Manager

Thunder in the Sun
as Fernando Christophe

77 Sunset Strip
as Santos

The Saga of Hemp Brown
as Serge Bolanos

An Affair to Remember
as Courbet

The Count of Monte Cristo

Jaguar
as Francisco Servente

Kiss Me Deadly
as Carmen Trivago

New York Confidential
as Senor

December Bride

With This Ring
as Senor Corelli, Opera Singer

The Girl on The Roof
as TV host

Conquest of Cochise
as Mexican Minister

Second Chance
as Mandy, hotel owner

So This Is Love
as Dr. Marafioti

The Moon Is Blue
as Television Performer

Thunder Bay
as Sheriff Antoine Chighizola

General Electric Theater

The Abbott and Costello Show
as Uncle Bozzo

I Love Lucy
as Professor

Havana Rose
as Ambassador DeMarco

Racket Squad

September Affair
as Grazzi

Nancy Goes to Rio
as Ricardo Domingos

Whirlpool
as Feruccio di Ravallo

Bad Men of Tombstone
as John Mingo

Adventures of Don Juan
as Don Serafino Lopez

Angel on the Amazon
as Sebastian Ortega

Romance on the High Seas
as Plinio

Rose of Santa Rosa
as Don Manuel Ortega

The Fugitive
as The Governor's Cousin

The Kneeling Goddess

Fiesta
as Antonio Morales

Monsieur Beaucaire
as Don Carlos

Pepita Jiménez
as Don Pedro Vargas
Hit the Hay
as Mario Alvini

Man Alive
as Prof. Zorado

The Red Dragon
as Insp. Luis Carvero

A Bell for Adano
as Gargano - Chief of Police

La pícara Susana

Where Do We Go from Here?
as Christopher Columbus

Brazil
as Senor Renaldo Da Silva

Mrs. Parkington
as Signor Cellini

Double Indemnity
as Sam Garlopis

My Best Gal
as Charlie

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
as Old Baba

Going My Way
as Tomaso Bozanni

The Sultan's Daughter
as Kuda

For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Fernando

Dixie
as Waiter

Five Graves to Cairo
as Gen. Sebastiano

The Black Swan
as Don Miguel (uncredited)

Girl Trouble
as Simon Cordoba

Larceny, Inc.
as Anton Copoulos

Obliging Young Lady
as Chef

Four Jacks and a Jill
as Mike - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)

Mr. and Mrs. North
as Buano

Two Latins from Manhattan
as Armando Rivero