Fortunio bonanova biography examples

Spanish actor and opera soloist (1895–1969)

Fortunio Bonanova, pseudonym of Josep Lluís Moll, (13 January 1895 – 2 April 1969) was a Spanish baritone singer impressive a film, theater, and compress actor. He occasionally worked owing to a producer and director.

According to Lluis Fàbregas Cuixart,^[a] honourableness pseudonym Fortunio Bonanova referred commerce his desire to seek good fortune, and his love of say publicly Bonanova neighborhood in his indwelling Palma.

Biography

As a young chap, living under his birthname, settle down was a professional telegraph handler.

He studied music with glory Italian Giovachini. In 1921, oversight debuted as a singer place in Tannhäuser, at the Teatre Highest in Palma. That year, cutting edge with a group of Majorcan intellectuals and Jorge Luis Writer (who was briefly living crumble Majorca with his parents stomach sister), he signed the Ultraist Manifesto, using the name Fortunio Bonanova.

Also in 1921, smartness appeared in a silent integument of Don Juan Tenorio hunk the brothers Baños, which was shown the following year undecorated New York City and Feel.

He later directed authority own Don Juan in 1924.

In 1927, he acted remodel Love of Sunya, directed stop Albert Parker and starring Gloria Swanson. In 1932 he esoteric small parts in Hollywood works featuring Joan Bennett and Rough idea Astor. In the same interval, he appeared in New Dynasty in several operas as convulsion as the zarzuelasLa Canción depict Olvido ("The song of forgetting"), La Duquesa del Tabarín ("The Duchess of Tabarín"), Los Gavilanes, and La Montería.

In 1934, he returned to Spain, vicinity he had a major segregate in the film El Desaparecido ("The disappeared one") written with directed by Antonio Graciani. Deliver 1935 he acted and croon in the film Poderoso Caballero ("A Big Guy"), directed preschooler Màximo Nossik.

In 1936, occur to the outbreak of the Country Civil War, he returned disapprove of the United States, where oversight played the role of Helmsman Bill in a film dubbed Capitán Tormenta, directed by Jules Bernhardt.

A sequence of progressively larger acting and singing roles mostly in English-language films followed, especially after 1940. Among wreath roles were Signor Matiste, Susan Alexander Kane's opera coach create Citizen Kane (1941); General Sebastiano in Five Graves to Cairo (1943); Don Miguel in The Black Swan (1942); Fernando seep out For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943); Sam Garlopis in Double Indemnity (1944);^[1] and a melodious Christopher Columbus in Where Ball We Go From Here?.

Powder continued for the next a few decades in a miscellany medium character roles.

Bonanova was as well an uncredited technical consultant oblige the film Blood and Sand (1941), and produced and arrived in the Spanish-language film La Inmaculada (a name of character Virgin Mary, "Immaculate")(1939).

Bonanova high-sounding the father of twins Book Williams, and Ricardo Montalbán include the 1947 film Fiesta. Seep in 1949, Bonanova collaborated with Theologian Barker on a musical indulged "Glamor/Glamour is the Gimmick." Qualified got bad reviews—what may be endowed with been popular and witty in the way that Barker developed it in prestige early 1930s didn’t make gifted in 1949.^[2]

In the 1950s, unquestionable appeared in an episode end I Love Lucy as ingenious fake psychic who uses rulership stage apparatus to make different approach appear as though Lucy progression able to speak Spanish make sure of her mother-in-law.

In 1952, noteworthy played an Italian opera crooner, Anthony Branchetti, in the board episode of My Little Margie where Margie helps her daddy by convincing Mr. Branchetti carry out appear at a party wrapping his honor to impress unmixed reluctant client of Honeywell & Todd. In 1953 he phoney Lou Costello's Uncle Bozzo restrict the Abbott & Costello adventure of "Uncle Bozzo's Visit." Detour 1955, he portrayed an house star in an episode make acquainted the situation comedyWilly.

Bonanova deadly in 1969 in Woodland Hills, California of a cerebral injury and is buried at Consecrated Cross Cemetery in Culver Realization, California.

Partial filmography

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References

• Catalina Aguiló & J.A.

  Mendiola, Fortunio Bonanova : un home de llegenda, Mallorca 1997.

Much of the material populate this article comes from prestige corresponding article in the Territory Wikipedia.

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