Marcelo Rezende

{{Short description|Brazilian journalist and television presenter (1951–2017)}}

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| name = Marcelo Rezende

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| caption = Rezende in 2016, at a test screening of Os Dez Mandamentos: O Filme

| birth_name = Marcelo Luiz Rezende Fernandes

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1951|11|12|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|09|16|1951|11|12|mf=y}}

| death_place = São Paulo, Brazil

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| occupation = Journalist and television presenter

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Marcelo Luiz Rezende Fernandes (November 12, 1951 – September 16, 2017) was a Brazilian journalist and television presenter.

He began his career as a sports journalist in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the coverage of several major games in the 1970s.{{cite web |url= http://televisao.uol.com.br/colunas/flavio-ricco/2009/09/17/ult7278u208.jhtm|title=Marcelo Rezende é o novo contratado da Band |last= Ricco|first= Flávio|website= }}

== Biography ==

Rezende worked at Rede Globo for 23 years as a reporter, where he was hired to present the Linha Direta police program until December 2000. He was last seen on RecordTV, where he presented the Cidade Alerta program.{{cite web |url= http://televisao.uol.com.br/ultimas-noticias/2008/11/04/ult4244u1821.jhtm|title=Canal 1: RedeTV! rescinde contrato com Marcelo Rezende |website= }} In May 2017 Rezende was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer,{{cite news|url=http://odia.ig.com.br/brasil/2017-05-15/marcelo-rezende-esta-com-cancer-no-pancreas-e-figado.html|title=Marcelo Rezende está com câncer no pâncreas e fígado|newspaper=O Dia|date=May 15, 2017|language=portuguese|accessdate=June 3, 2017}} and eventually died on September 16, 2017, at 17:45 BRT, after suffering from multiple organ failure.{{cite web |url= http://noticias.r7.com/sao-paulo/marcelo-rezende-morre-aos-65-anos-em-sao-paulo-16092017|title=Marcelo Rezende morre aos 65 anos em São Paulo |last= Calil |first= Thiago |date= September 16, 2017 |website= |access-date= September 17, 2017 }}