Fortunio Bonanova
Fortunio Bonanova
A law student at the University of Madrid, Fortunio Bonanova switched his major to music at Madrid's Real Conservatory and the Paris Conservatory. Bonanova inaugurated his operatic career as a baritone at the age of 17. By age 21 he was in films, producing, directing and starring in a silent production of Don Juan (1921). He spent most of the 1920s singing at the Paris opera and writing books, plays and short stories; he arrived in America in 1930 to co-star with Katherine Cornell on Broadway. At the invitation of his friend Orson Welles, Bononova portrayed the feverish singing teacher Signor Matisti in Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Fortunio Bonanova remained gainfully employed in Hollywood as a character actor into the early 1960s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Fortunio Bonanova:
- For Whom the Bell Tolls with Gary Cooper , Ingrid Bergman , Akim Tamiroff , Katina Paxinou , Vladimir Sokoloff , Victor Varconi , Joseph Calleia , Duncan Renaldo , George Coulouris , Frank Lackteen , George Sorel , Alberto Morin , Yakima Canutt , Yvonne DeCarlo , Charles Bickford , Eduardo Ciannelli
- The Song of Bernadette with Jennifer Jones , Charles Bickford , Gladys Cooper , Vincent Price , Lee J. Cobb , Anne Revere , Blanche Yurka , Mary Anderson , William Eythe , Sig Rumann , Marcel Dalio , Davison Clark , Jerome Cowan , Linda Darnell , Charles Dingle , Frank Lackteen , Mae Marsh , Alphonse Martell , Louis Mercier , Belle Mitchell , Dickie Moore , Patricia Morison , Alan Napier , Alla Nazimova , Ruth Robinson , George Sorel , Edwin Stanley , Minerva Urecal , Edward vanSloan , Charles Wagenheim , Ruth Warren , Cecil Weston , Ian Wolfe
- Hello, Frisco, Hello with Alice Faye , John Payne , Jack Oakie , Lynn Bari , Laird Cregar , June Havoc , Ward Bond , Kirby Grant , Mary Field , George Barbier , Esther Dale , Edward Earle , James Flavin
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