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7 unusual facts about taxi driver


Jazz in Film

The album was meant to be a portrait of jazz in cinema history, a way to chronicle the evolution of jazz score from the late 1940s to present day, and features highly influential themes from classics like Anatomy of a Murder, Taxi Driver and seminal noir The Man With the Golden Arm.

La Haine

He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a cop, manically practising the role of Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver in the mirror secretly.

Language of Love

One of the films in the series was featured in the movie Taxi Driver, in a scene where Robert De Niro takes Cybil Shepherd to a cinema showing the film on their first date.

Sexykiller

Makes references to many classic horror films including Taxi Driver, Friday the 13th (1980 film), The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Evil Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Night of the Living Dead.

The Five Obstructions

At the Berlinale 2010, Lars von Trier, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro announced plans to work on a remake of Scorsese's film Taxi Driver.

The Matrix defense

This is a version of the insanity defense and considered a descendant of the Taxi Driver defense of John Hinckley, one of the first defenses based on blurring reality with the movies.

The Walker

It is an independent production and is the latest installment in Schrader's night workers series of films, starting with Taxi Driver in 1976, followed by American Gigolo in 1980 and Light Sleeper in 1992.


American Gigolo

Schrader considers it one of four similar films, which he calls "double bookends": Taxi Driver, bookended by Light Sleeper, and American Gigolo bookended by The Walker.

Fabian Hamilton

He worked initially as a taxi driver for a year from 1978 before working as a graphic designer until 1994 when he became as a computer systems consultant with Apple Macintosh Computer systems, which he undertook until his election to parliament.

Marcia Lucas

She was the supervising film editor on Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976), and shared in the nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing with Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro.

Renu Saikia

Her other memorable roles were in some well-known (Drama/Stage) Plays, Kalyani, Joymoti, Nimila Angko, "Taxi Driver" and "Rajpath"- one of the most famous drama-act, which made her way towards the Assamese Cinema and many more.

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov

Paul Schrader who wrote Taxi Driver (1976) was in turn inspired by Bresson's Michel character to create Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro's antihero.

Zahida Kazmi

Zahida Kazmi is a Pakistani taxi driver and is known as Pakistan's first female taxi driver.


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1991 Formula One season

Belgian driver Bertrand Gachot missed his home Grand Prix due to being imprisoned in Britain following an incident in which he sprayed CS gas at a London taxi driver.

2006 Cheetham Hill terrorism arrests

The 2006 Cheetham Hill terrorism arrests was an anti-terrorism operation in the United Kingdom, in which Habib Ahmed, a taxi driver, was arrested by six policemen at his home in Cheetham Hill, Manchester on 23 August 2006 on suspicion of his involvement in a plan to attack on an individual.

Boris Onishchenko

Two months later it was reported he had been called before Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev for a personal scolding, dismissed from the Red Army, fined 5,000 rubles, stripped of all his sporting honours, and was working as a taxi driver in Kiev.

Bowery Champs

Leo Gorcey's father, Bernard, appears as Mr. Johnson, the taxi driver.

C/o Segemyhr

The other three main characters are his girlfriend Cecilia Jansson, "Cilla", portrayed by Sussie Eriksson, Fredrik's friend and casual labourer Jan-Olof, portrayed by Lennart Jähkel and taxi driver Anton, portrayed by Olle Sarri.

David Trustram-Eve, 2nd Baron Silsoe

Silsoe lived near Reading, Berkshire and was an active member of the congregation at All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard, acting as volunteer "taxi driver" for a number of infirm or learning disabled parishioners and serving for some years on the Parochial Church Council.

Dawud M. Mu'Min

He was serving a 48 year prison sentence for a 1973 murder conviction of a taxi driver in Grayson County.

Death of Mido Macia

Emidio Josias "Mido" Macia (c. 1985 – 26 February 2013) was a Mozambican immigrant and taxi driver who was killed in the custody of the South African Police Service.

Djan Madruga

He saw this as a spectacular opportunity in several aspects: first, because his father was an engineer in Petrobras, but he was removed from office after the Brazilian military revolution of 1964 and turned into a taxi driver to provide his family.

Doiby Dickles

Doiby ('Derby' with a thick Brooklyn accent) works as a taxi driver, mostly for the Apex Broadcasting company, where Alan Scott is employed.

Esa Maldita Costilla

Juan (Luis Brandoni), the taxi driver who brings them to the club, pays attention to the conversation of the women who from one to one counts each other their ideal of a man.

Garuda di Dadaku

Bayu (Emir Mahira) is a sixth-year student who lives with his mother Wahyuni (Maudy Koesnaedi) and his grandfather Usman (Ikranagara); Bayu's father, an athlete turned taxi driver, died in a car accident several years before.

Genildo Ferreira de França

The shooting started on May 21 some time between 16:00 and 18:00 in a remote area near São Gonçalo do Amarante, where Ferreira killed taxi driver Francisco Marques Carneiro, who was dating his ex-wife and made comments about him being a homosexual, with a shot to the forehead.

Georgian Jews

One notable Georgian Jew is the Tamir Sapir, born Temur Sepiashvili, an immigrant taxi driver turned chemical trader turned real estate investor from New York.

Hotels in Meridian, Mississippi

Many businesses sprung up in this area, one of them run by E. F. Young, Jr., a local barber and taxi driver.

I Enjoy the World With You

Lead actors: Július Satinský (Albert Horák), Jana Šulcová (Kateřina Horáková), Václav Postránecký (Michal Adámek), Eliška Balzerová (Dáša Adámková), Pavel Nový (Pepa Bednář), Zdena Studenková (Gábina Bednářová), Květa Fialová (grandmother), Jan Faltýnek (taxi-driver), Zuzana Gutheisová (Dášenka), Marta Buchtíková (Kačenka), Václav Korda (Míša), Cyril Křupala (Pepíno), Lukáš Pelánek (Matýsek), Marek Dvořák (Bertík)

John Cannan

Court was last seen by a taxi driver who dropped her in Throop, Dorset at her sister's house.

Jonny Jakobsen

Jonny Jakobsen (born 17 November 1963) is a Swedish former Bubblegum dance/eurodance singer better known under his fictitious identity as Indian taxi driver Dr.

Jordan 191

Gachot's season was curtailed by a two-month prison sentence, for spraying CS gas at a taxi driver in London.

Larry Gagner

After football, Gagner worked several different jobs, including as a taxi driver, security guard, and substitute teacher, before deciding to make use of his college degree in commercial art.

Malibu Beach Nightmare

The EP's second song, "Taxi Driver", is from the band's third album, Self Destruction Blues, and was also released on the "Love's An Injection" EP and single.

My Friend the King

Taxi driver Jim (Verno) befriends Ruritanian child King Ludwig while the latter is on a visit to London.

Night on Earth

It is a collection of five vignettes, taking place during the same night, concerning the temporary bond formed between taxi driver and passenger in five cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki.

Richard Kelliher

While working as a cleaner at Brisbane City Hall he applied for, but failed to get, a taxi driver's licence and the family moved to Melbourne where he got a job as a gardener.

Sit Back With Jack

Guests during the series run not only included professional musicians such as Bud & Travis, Frank D'Rone and Ray Eberle, but amateur performers such as Father Clayton Barclay (a harpsichord player), Wally Keep (a singing taxi driver), Vince Lovallo (a singing blacksmith) and Bobby Swartz (ventriloquist, operating his dummy Elmer).

Taxi 3

Detective Emilien's wife, Petra, has just announced that she's pregnant and taxi driver Daniel (Samy Naceri) is in the midst of a relationship crisis.

Taxi 4

After these events he's fired, but luckily for him, his friend Daniel (Samy Naceri) helps him one more time by telling him the location where the criminal is located, having been the taxi driver who drove him after he left the police station, not knowing he was a criminal.

The Last Horror Film

Vinny Durand (Joe Spinell) is a New York City taxi driver who is obsessed with the international cult actress Jana Bates (Caroline Munro), who is known as the "queen of horror films".

They All Laughed

Detective John Russo (Ben Gazzara) attempts to cheat on his girlfriend, country singer Christy Miller (Colleen Camp), with a blonde taxi driver he calls Sam (Patti Hansen), with the connivance of his colleague Arthur Brodsky (Blaine Novak).

Tim Lopes

When a taxi driver scares the mugger off by firing a revolver, the boy runs into heavy traffic on Avenida Presidente Vargas and is violently killed when he is hit by a city bus.

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).

Trevor King

A Catholic taxi driver was killed in Carrickfergus and two Protestants mistaken for Catholics were shot dead in Newtownabbey.

Volkswagen Beetle in Mexico

However, the Volkswagen Beetle kept being the Mexican taxi driver favorite, until, in 2002, a decree emerged under the mandate of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then Mexico City's governor.

What a Country!

The characters include Nikolai, a Russian taxi driver (Yakov Smirnoff, whose catchphrase provided the show's title), Laslo (a retired Hungarian doctor), Ali (a Pakistani), Robert (the son of a deposed African king), Maria (the housekeeper working for a rich Beverly Hills family), Victor (a Hispanic in love with Maria) and Yung Hee (a shy Chinese woman).

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within

Like a number of other reviewers, Kuper complains that Bawer's book is poorly documented: "Any source will do: Bawer cites Bat Ye'or, an Amsterdam taxi driver, a woman in a Swedish bar, or often no source at all."