ron vawter played hannibal lecter in silence of the lambs.
ron vawter played hannibal lecter in silence of the lambs.
who played hannibal lecter in silence of the lambs?
ron vawter
the psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer hannibal lecter, most notably portrayed by anthony hopkins in the academy award-winning 1991 film "the silence of the lambs", is perhaps the most infamous fictional psychopath of the 20th century. lecter is intelligent and sophisticated (whereas psychopathy is generally associated with lower than average verbal intelligence), and his disarming charisma and wit disguise his true nature as a serial killer. he spends most of the film in a cell, taunting fbi trainee clarice starling with clues to the identity of another serial killer, buffalo bill, in exchange for intimate details of starling's troubled childhood. lecter first appeared in thomas harris' 1981 novel "red dragon", in which he is characterized as not fitting any known psychological profile. in the film adaptation of "the silence of the lambs", he is referred to as a "pure psychopath". in the later novels "hannibal" and "hannibal rising", lecter's psychopathy is portrayed as the result of seeing his sister mischa murdered and cannibalized during world war ii. in 2013 harris revealed that he originally based the lecter character on alfredo ballí trevino, a mexican physician who had killed and dismembered his homosexual lover, in what was called a crime of passion over a financial dispute.
fictional portrayals of psychopaths
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the hannibal lecter franchise is an american media franchise based around the titular character, hannibal lecter, a brilliant, cannibalistic serial killer whose assistance is routinely sought out by law enforcement personnel to aide in the capture of other criminals. he originally appeared in a series of novels (starting with "red dragon" in 1981) by thomas harris. the series has since expanded into film and television.









































section::::novels.









































bullet::::- "red dragon" (1981)









































bullet::::- "the silence of the lambs" (1988)









































bullet::::- "hannibal" (1999)









































bullet::::- "hannibal rising" (2006)









































section::::films and television.









































bullet::::- "manhunter" (1986)









































bullet::::- "the silence of the lambs" (1991)
hannibal lecter (franchise)