Going Crazy, One Passenger at a Time Travis Bickle really is the movie. He's the taxi driver of the title, for one thing, and the movie dives into his life in a completely focused, intimate, and ye...

Turn Off the Red Light Iris is only twelve and a half years old—a fact advertised by her pimp, Sport, in order to entice customers. (This is one of the many plot points in Taxi Driver that will m...

Political Savvy Betsy is an angelic-faced do-gooder who works for Charles Palantine's presidential campaign. At NYC campaign headquarters, we see her goofing around with another employee, Tom, and...

Charles Palantine is running for president: He seems to be a man of the people, a potential great reformer. In order to impress Betsy, Travis Bickle volunteers to work for Palantine. One day, he ha...

Thoroughly Unsavory Sport (his real name is Matthew Higgins) is a totally, totally disgusting character. Yes, he's even grosser than Travis, even though he has a squeaky-clean, Leave It To Beaver-s...

Wizard is an older, seasoned cab driver. He has rough-edged opinions, and tells a lewd story about how he had sex with a woman who started taking off her panties in his cab. He also has a more sens...

Dough Boy and Charlie T are two other cabbies who hang out with Wizard and Travis at a diner. Dough Boy seems into lots of schemes—he tries to get Travis Bickle to help him sell a piece of the mo...

The Personnel Officer hires Travis to work as a cabbie. At first, he's kind of suspicious of Travis and chides him for joking around when Travis says that his driving record is "clean, real cleanâ€...

Tom is a worker on Palantine's campaign who likes to joke around with Betsy, a little flirtatiously. When Betsy sees Travis staring at her from his cab, Tom goes to tell him to drive away. Also, wh...

This passenger has some serious issues. He pays Travis to park the cab outside an apartment building, where he rants about how his wife is upstairs in one of the apartments having an affair—with...

Easy Andy is the black market criminal who sells Travis his guns. He gives him the low-down on every piece he sells him, and tries to squeeze more cash out of him too, offering him drugs and a stol...

Melio runs a convenience store and is familiar with Travis. When a robber tries to stick Melio up, Travis shoots the guy. Melio promises to take care of the fact that Travis used an unlicensed gun...