Fortunio Bonanova
Actor

Fortunio Bonanova Net Worth

Fortunio Bonanova was a Spanish-born actor, director, and musician who changed his name to pursue a career in music. After making his international opera debut in 1922, he went on to tour Europe and South America and wrote plays and short stories. He also starred in the Spanish production Don Juan Tenorio in 1922 and ran his own repertory company in South America. After the Spanish Civil War, he moved to the United States and appeared on stage and in small supporting roles in Hollywood. He was often typecast as excitable or pompous Latin Americans, Spaniards, or Italians, and was most memorable as Signor Matiste in Citizen Kane and Sam Galopis in Double Indemnity. He retired in the mid-1960s and died in 1969 at the age of 74.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Soundtrack, Director
Birth Day January 13, 1895
Birth Place  Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain, Spain
Age 124 YEARS OLD
Died On 2 April 1969(1969-04-02) (aged 74)\nWoodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Birth Sign Aquarius
Occupation Actor, opera singer
Years active 1922–1964

💰 Net worth

Fortunio Bonanova, a well-known actor, soundtrack artist, and director in Spain, is estimated to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in the year 2024. Bonanova has made a notable impact on the entertainment industry with his versatile skills and contributions in various domains. Throughout his career, he has amassed considerable wealth through his successful performances in films, his work on soundtracks, and his ventures in directing. Known for his talent and versatility, Bonanova has captivated audiences with his captivating performances, making him a prominent figure in the Spanish entertainment scene.

Biography/Timeline

1921

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.

1927

In 1927, he acted in Love of Sonya, 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.

1936

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.

1941

Bonanova was also an uncredited technical consultant for the film Blood and Sand (1941), and produced and appeared in the Spanish-language film La Inmaculada (a name of the Virgin Mary, "Immaculate")(1939).

1947

Bonanova played the father of twins Esther Williams, and Ricardo Montalbán in the 1947 film Fiesta. In 1949, Bonanova collaborated with Ambrose Barker (a former music hall performer who had, with his partner/wife, Peggy Wynne, had some success on the British colonial circuit in the 1920s–1930s) on a musical entitled "Glamor/Glamour is the Gimmick." It got bad reviews—what may have been popular and witty in the early 1930s didn’t make it in 1949.

1950

In the 1950s, he appeared in an episode of I Love Lucy as a fake psychic who uses his stage apparatus to make it appear as though Lucy is able to speak Spanish to her mother-in-law.

1952

In 1952, he played an Italian opera singer, Anthony Branchetti, in the 4th episode of My Little Margie where Margie helps her father by convincing Mr. Branchetti to appear at a party in his honor to impress a reluctant client of Honeywell & Todd.

1953

In 1953 he played Lou Costello's Uncle Bozzo in the Abbott & Costello episode of "Uncle Bozzo's Visit."

1969

Bonanova died in 1969 in Woodland Hills, California of a cerebral hemorrhage and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

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