Travis Bickle

Travis Bickle is a fictional character, the narrator and protagonist of Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver, in which he is played by Robert De Niro. In the American Film Institute's top 50 movie villains of all time, Bickle was named the 30th greatest film villain. Bickle's first name was a homage to the Mick Travis character (played by Malcolm McDowell) in If... (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973), the latter of which was one of Scorsese's favor... more

Travis Bickle is a fictional character, the narrator and protagonist of Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver, in which he is played by Robert De Niro. In the American Film Institute's top 50 movie villains of all time, Bickle was named the 30th greatest film villain. Bickle's first name was a homage to the Mick Travis character (played by Malcolm McDowell) in If... (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973), the latter of which was one of Scorsese's favorite films at the time. See plot synopsis of Taxi Driver. less