Mário Filho
Brazilian journalist and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this Portuguese name, "Filho" is a generational suffix meaning "son", which is used for someone whose name is the same as their father, like "Jr." in English.
Mário Rodrigues Filho, better known as Mário Filho (3 June 1908 – 17 September 1966), was a Brazilian journalist and writer.
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Born | Mário Rodrigues Filho (1908-06-03)3 June 1908 Recife, Brazil |
Died | 17 September 1966(1966-09-17) (aged 58) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Born in the Pernambuco state capital Recife, Filho moved to Rio de Janeiro while still a child, in 1916. His father, Mário Rodrigues, owned the newspaper "A Manhã" (lit. 'The Morning'). The younger Mário began at his father's paper in 1926 as a sports reporter, pursuing a relatively undeveloped form of journalism.