Most moviegoers associate actor Robert De Niro in 'intensity' and 'violence'. This image has De Niro the last fifty years of his career carefully nurtured. He used gestures, his voice and, most important, his hypnotic eyes to convince his audience of the troubling emotions that he played his roles. An overview of his first films as Mean Streets, classic portraits of men as violent and unhappy Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver and Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, to the comic films such as the crazy father in Meet the Parents.