Cabbie
Background
Cabbie is a cab driver in dystopian Manhattan, New York. He has been driving his cab for 30 years.
During the events of Escape from New York (1981) played by Ernest Borgnine
Snake Plissken travels to a theater where he is greeted by Cabbie who recognized him when he walked by. Later, Cabbie drives up and takes Snake to see Brain when Snake demands he take him to the Duke. Snake meets Maggie and the Brain. Snake by gunpoint, convinces Brain to help him find the President. Cabbie drives away when the Duke and his gang arrive in the neighborhood looking for Brain. Snake returns to the Twin Towers and finds Brain and Maggie fighting some Indians. Brain tells Snake he knows where the cassette tape is. They find Brain's car disabled and the Duke and his men waiting for them, forcing them to run away just in time to be picked up by Cabbie. Snake drives towards the bridge while Brain guides him. The Duke follows in his vehicle behind them. Snake drives over a mine which blows the cab in half and also kills Cabbie.