Snake Plissken

S.D. "Snake" Plissken is a fictional anti-hero of the John Carpenter films Escape From New York (1981) and Escape from L.A. (1996), played in both by Kurt Russell. A war hero turned convicted criminal, instantly recognisable by his eyepatch, leather jacket and cobra tattoo, he became one of the defining cult-action characters of 1980s cinema (Wikipedia)