Taxi Driver (1976)

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Original title	Taxi Driver
Swedish release title	Taxi Driver
Title for Swedish Video release	Taxi Driver

Director	Martin Scorsese
Screenplay	Paul Schrader
Producer	Michael Phillips Julia Phillips
Director of Photography	Michael Chapman
Music	Bernard Herrmann
Production Designer	Charles Rosen
Film Editor	Marcia Lucas (supervising film editor) Tom Rolf Melvin Shapiro
Production Mixer	Les Lazarowitz (sound mixer)
Assistant Director	Peter R. Scoppa
Advisor	David Nichols (visuell konsult)
Artistic Advisor	Sandra Weintraub (creative consultant)
Assistant to the Director	Amy Jones
Script Supervisor	Kay Chapin
Second Assistant Director	Ralph Singleton William Eustace
Camera Operator	Fred Schuler
Assistant Film Editor	George Trirogoff Billy Weber (as William Weber)
Boom Operator	Robert Rogow
Associate Producer	Phillip M. Goldfarb (associate producer)
Production Assistant	Eugene Iemola Gary Springer Chris Soldo
Casting	Juliet Taylor Sylvia Fay (as Sylvia Faye) (atmosphere casting)
Production Secretary	Renate Rupp Pat Dodds
Assistent to the Producer	Keith Addis
Unit Publicist	Howard Newman Marion Billing (special publicity)
Still Photographer	Josh Weiner
Special Photographic Effects	Steve Schapiro
Second Unit Director of Photography	Michael Zingale
Assistant Cameraman	Alec Hirshfeld Bill Johnson Ron Zarilla
Gaffer	Richard Quinlan
Key Grip	Robert Ward
Set Decorator	Herbert Mulligan
Painter	Cosmo Sorice
Propman	Les Bloom
Make-up Supervisor	Irving Buchman Dick Smith (special makeup)
Hair Stylist	Mona Orr
Wardrobe	Al Craine
Recorder	Roger Pietschman
Sound Editor	Frank E. Warner (supervising sound effects editor) Sam Gemette Jim Fritch David Hourton Gordon Davidson
Sound Effects	Tony Parmelee
Re-recording Mixer	Tex Rudloff (re-recording supervisor) Vern Poore (re-recording mixer) Rick Alexander (as Dick Alexander)
Trainee	Robert Cohen (Directors Guild of America trainee)
Titles	Dan Perri (title design)
Other Crew	Ray Hartwick (transportledare)
Production Coordinator	Noni Rock
Best Boy	Billy Ward
Grip Best Boy	Edward Quinn
Music Editor	Shinichi Yamazaki
Assistant Property Master	Dave Goodnoff
Costume Designer	Ruth Morley

Robert De Niro	Travis Bickle
Cybill Shepherd	Betsy
Jodie Foster	Iris Steensma, 12,5 år
Albert Brooks	Tom, valkampanjarbetare
Harvey Keitel	"Sport", Iris hallick
Leonard Harris	Charles Palantine, senator, presidentkandidat
Peter Boyle	"Wizard", taxichaufför
Martin Scorsese	passagerare tittande på siluetter
-	samt (i alfabetisk ordning)
Diahnne Abbot	flicka i porrbiokassan
Frank Adu	den arge svarte mannen som tar Iris ur taxin
Victor Argo	Melio, ägaren till delikatessaffären
Gino Ardito	en polis vid valmötet
Garth Avery	Iris väninna
Harry Cohn	Cohn, den vite taxichauffören på Bellmore's Cafeteria
Copper Cunningham	den prostituerade i taxin
Brenda Dickson	flickan i TV:s såpopera
Harry Fischler	dispatcher
Nat Grant	rånaren
Richard Higgs	den långe Secret Servicemannen vid valmötet
Beau Keyser	mannen i TV:s såpopera
Victor Magnotta (as Vic Magnotta)	Secret Servicefotografen
Robert Maroff	mafioson hos Iris
Norman Matlock	Charlie T., den svarte taxichauffören på Bellmore's Cafeteria
Bill Minkin	Toms assistent
Murray Mosten	Iris tidtagare
Harry Northup	en soldat
Gene Palma	gatutrummisen
Carey Poe	valkampanjarbetare
Steven Prince	Andy, vapenhandlaren
Peter Savage	the john
Martin Scorsese	taxipassageraren som bevakar sin fru
Robert Shields	Palantines medhjälpare
Ralph Singleton	intervjuaren i TV
Joe Spinell	personalassistenten på taxistationen
Maria Turner	en arg prostituerad på gatan
Robin Utt	valkampanjarbetare

Production Company	Italo-Judeo Production
	Columbia Pictures Industries Inc.
	Bill/Phillips Productions
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Warner-Columbia Film AB	1977
	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2003
Distributor in Sweden (buy video)	Egmont Film AB	1996
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Sweden AB	2003
Distributor in Sweden (DCP)	SF Bio AB	2016

Censorship number	115699
Date	1976-05-10
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	3115 meters

Aspect ratio	1.85:1
Sound system	Dolby Stereo 04
Colour type	Colour
Colour system	Metrocolor
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	3115 meter
Length in minutes	114 min
Reels	6 reels

New York City

USA

1975-06-09

First showing	1976-02-08			USA	114 min	(US Release)
Release in Sweden	1977-03-12	Sandrew	Malmö	Sweden	114 min
Release in Stockholm	1977-03-14	Grand 1	Stockholm	Sweden	114 min
	1977-03-14	Victoria 1	Stockholm	Sweden	114 min
TV showing	1995-05-24	Kanal 1		Sweden	109 min
Video release	1996-01			Sweden	109 min
TV showing	1997-01-31	TV3		Sweden	109 min
	1998-07-11	TV3		Sweden	109 min
	2002-04-13	TV3		Sweden	109 min
	2002-08-01	TV3		Sweden	109 min
	2003-11-15	TV3		Sweden	109 min
DVD release	2003-12-08			Sweden
Re-release	2004-01-30	Svea	Gothenburg	Sweden	114 min
	2004-01-30	Filmstaden Hero City	Stockholm	Sweden	114 min
	2004-01-30	Sture 1	Stockholm	Sweden	114 min
	2004-01-30	Fyris	Uppsala	Sweden	114 min
TV showing	2004-05-30	TV3		Sweden	109 min
Re-release	2016-09-19			Sweden
TV showing	2018-12-12	TV4 Film		Sweden
	2018-12-27	TV4 Film		Sweden
	2018-12-29	TV4 Film		Sweden
	2019-01-09	TV4 Film		Sweden
	2019-01-15	TV4 Film		Sweden
	2019-01-20	TV4 Film		Sweden
	2019-01-26	TV4 Film		Sweden
	2019-01-28	TV4 Film		Sweden
	2023-04-04	C More First		Sweden
	2023-04-06	C More First		Sweden
	2023-04-26	C More Hits		Sweden
	2023-04-29	C More First		Sweden
	2023-05-07	C More Hits		Sweden
	2023-05-18	C More First		Sweden
	2023-05-27	C More Hits		Sweden
	2023-06-03	C More Hits		Sweden
	2023-06-05	C More Stars		Sweden
	2023-06-19	C More First		Sweden
	2023-06-22	C More Stars		Sweden
	2023-06-30	C More First		Sweden
	2023-07-15	C More Stars		Sweden
	2023-07-18	C More Hits		Sweden
	2023-07-28	C More Hits		Sweden
	2023-08-03	C More Stars		Sweden
	2023-08-09	C More Stars		Sweden
	2023-08-15	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-09-01	TV4 Stars		Sweden
	2023-09-05	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-09-17	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-09-29	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-10-10	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-10-16	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-10-20	TV4 Stars		Sweden
	2023-10-29	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-11-03	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-11-14	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-11-25	TV4 Stars		Sweden
	2023-12-06	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-12-13	TV4 Hits		Sweden
	2023-12-23	TV4 Hits		Sweden

Original title	Late for the Sky
Composer	Jackson Browne
Lyrics	Jackson Browne
Singer	Jackson Browne

Original title	Hold Me Close
Composer	Bernard Herrmann
Lyrics	Keith Addis
Singer	George "Obie" McKern

Precious Images (1986)	Citation included from	Taxi Driver (1976)
Sexual Freedom in Denmark (1970)	Cited in	Taxi Driver (1976)

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Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	3084

Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Duplicate negative
Carrier type	16 mm

Element type	Duplicate negative
Carrier type	16 mm

Element type	Sound negative
Carrier type	16 mm

Element type	Sound negative
Carrier type	16 mm

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	1

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Script type	Cutting continuity
Language	English

Black and white print	SET
Colour prints	6
Album	No