About
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...
Known for
I Love LucySeries • 1951
77 Sunset StripSeries • 1958
December BrideSeries • 1954
The Abbott and Costello ShowSeries • 1952
Citizen KaneMovie • 1941
Racket SquadSeries • 1951
A Bell for AdanoMovie • 1945
The Count of Monte CristoSeries • 1956
Double IndemnityMovie • 1944
The Black SwanMovie • 1942
Five Graves to CairoMovie • 1943
The Mark of ZorroMovie • 1940
Kiss Me DeadlyMovie • 1955
An Affair to RememberMovie • 1957
Adventures of Don JuanMovie • 1948
Romance on the High SeasMovie • 1948
For Whom the Bell TollsMovie • 1943
Going My WayMovie • 1944
Thunder BayMovie • 1953
WhirlpoolMovie • 1950
Ali Baba and the Forty ThievesMovie • 1944
Blood and SandMovie • 1941
The FugitiveMovie • 1947
The Moon Is BlueMovie • 1953