{"id":656236,"date":"2013-05-06T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=228476"},"modified":"2013-05-06T12:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:11:03","slug":"scarface-actor-dies-mario-machado-was-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656236","title":{"rendered":"Scarface Actor Dies; Mario Machado Was 78"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Machado<\/a>, a Los Angeles TV reporter famous for portraying reporters in movies, has died at the age of 78.<\/p>\n

According to a Los Angeles Times report<\/a>, Machado died at a convalescent facility in the West Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. His daughter stated that he had died from complications of pneumonia, and that he had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease.<\/p>\n

Machado was born in Shanghai in 1935 and was educated in the U.S. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1956 and became a U.S. citizen in 1965. Machado made an name for himself as a TV reporter for local Los Angeles news stations such as KCBS and KNXT in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. He was one of the first Chinese-American on-air news reporters in the U.S. <\/p>\n

Machado also became famous for playing news reporters in movies. He played the role of Casey Wong in the RoboCop<\/em> movies. He also played the role of a reporter in the movies Brian’s Song<\/em>, Rocky III<\/em>, and Scarface<\/em>. He continued his on-screen appearances into the 90s, when he appeared in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210<\/em> as an awards host.<\/p>\n

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Mario Machado, a Los Angeles TV reporter famous for portraying reporters in movies, has died at the age of 78. According to a Los Angeles Times report, Machado died at a convalescent facility in the West Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. His daughter stated that he had died from complications of pneumonia, and that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}