Mário Filho

Mário Rodrigues Filho, better known as Mário Filho (3 June 1908 – 17 September 1966), was a Brazilian journalist and writer.

In this Portuguese name, the second or paternal family name is Rodrigues. "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 Filho
Portrait of Filho published in Jornal dos Sports, 12 March 1950
Born
Mário Rodrigues Filho

(1908-06-03)3 June 1908
Recife, Brazil
Died17 September 1966(1966-09-17) (aged 58)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupations

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.

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