Mario Machado

Mario Machado

Mario Jose de Souza Machado (born April 22, 1935 in Shanghai , China , † May 4, 2013 in Los Angeles ) was a Chinese-American actor , television and radio reporter . He became known in 1970 as the first Chinese-born American reporter and presenter in Los Angeles.

Live and act

Mario Machado was born in Shanghai in 1935. His father, Carlos Jacinto de Lourdes Gouveia Furtado Machado, was a Vice Chancellor of the Portuguese Consulate in Shanghai. His mother, Maria Teresa de Sousa, who was born in China and Portugal, was a housewife. After Mario spent two years at St. John's Military Academy in Los Angeles at the age of 11 , he moved to the British Thomas Hanbury School , St. Francis Xavier College in Shanghai and a vocational college in Hong Kong . In 1956 he emigrated to Seattle and received American citizenship in 1965: he married Marie Christine D'Almada Remedios, the couple have four children. Before joining broadcasting, he worked in management at IBM Corporation . Machado died on May 4, 2013 at the age of 78 in West Hills, Los Angeles .

watch TV

In 1967 Mario Machado began his career as a news reporter at KHJ-TV (now KCAL-TV ). In 1969, he was the first consumer affairs reporter for KNXT in Los Angeles, where he reported on cyclamate , a food additive and sugar substitute that is carcinogenic. Cyclamate has been banned in the United States since 1970 . He was the news presenter for The Big News on CBS , becoming the first Chinese-born presenter in the US. In the 1970s, he hosted the daily news and interview show Noontime , which aired on KNXT for seven years. As the presenter of the medical program Medix , Machado was nominated three times for Outstanding Achievement as Presenter . The show had 208 episodes in more than eight seasons. The show also received several Emmys and Emmy nominations.

Movie

Often Machado played a news presenter or reporter in films. Best known is his role as Casey Wong , whom he played in three RoboCop films. Machado embodied himself in some films, such as The Flying Eye and Without Warning (1994). Machado had his last film role in the documentary Shanghai Exodus , for which he also worked as a consultant.

Machado's distinctive voice is in a number of films of Retinitis Pigmentosa International of Theater Vision to hear, which is designed for the blind. Machado describes what is happening on the canvas.

Sports

As an athlete in college and a former soccer player, Machado was able to live out his love of soccer by serving as an English-speaking commentator at the soccer World Cup for North America . Machado hosted the World Championships in Mexico (1970), Germany (1974), Argentina (1978) and Spain (1982). He also moderated the 1984 Olympic Games .

In 1968 and 1976 Machado hosted the North American Soccer League football games for the television station CBS. He also moderated the weekly soccer program The Best of the World Cup for the Spanish International Network and the program Star Soccer from England on the public television Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for six years. In 1986 he worked as a representative of the American Soccer League .

Between 1976 and 1984 Machado published Soccer Corner magazine for soccer lovers.

Machado was a founding member of the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) with his friend Hans Stierle . In 1971 Machado helped change the policy that girls were allowed to play soccer. In recognition of his services to the sport, Machado was inducted into the AYSO Hall of Fame in 1999 .

legacy

As chairman of MJM Communications , Machado instituted a number of special events, such as the Beverly Hills St. Patrick's Day Parade in 1985 and 1986.

Working with the History Department of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas , Mario Machado and his co-producer Barbara Egyud collected oral narratives from people who left China in the 1940s and 1950s. This collection formed the core of the Old China Hands Archive at California State University in Northridge . Robert Gohstand, professor of geography who was a classmate of machados from the time in Shanghai, recognized the importance of these records for the descendants of the emigrants and for oral history .

Web links

• Mario Machado in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Suzanne Joe Kai: Machado - Pioneer Los Angeles TV and Radio Broadcaster; 1935 - 2013 ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
2. ↑ Imdb: [1] (English)