AMC Hollywood Icon: Robert De Niro

Taxi Driver (1976)
Here's the face that launched a thousand dorm room walls. Shirtless menace became the new cool, and a generation of guys tried to scare girls into loving them. (Some guy claiming to identify with De Niro's character, Travis Bickle, even shot President Reagan to impress co-star Jodie Foster.)  Here De Niro perfects the quiet, regular-seeming guy with murder and obsession just behind his eyes.


Photo: Taxi Driver, Robert DeNiro, 1976/Courtesy: Everett Collection