The Silence of the Lambs (film) The Silence of the Lambs (film) The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme from a screenplay written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name. The film stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, and Anthony Heald. In the film, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims' corpses. The novel was Harris's first and
Clarice Tinsley and news anchor. Tinsley has appeared as a news anchor or reporter in several Dallas-based television productions, including "The Good Guys", "Prison Break" and "Walker, Texas Ranger". In the 1980s, her work on "A Call For Help," an investigative reporting series on problems with Dallas' 911 emergency system, earned KDFW both a Peabody Award in 1984 and a 1980 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for investigative journalism. In 2007 she was awarded the "Director's Community Leadership Award" from the FBI. Clarice Tinsley Clarice Tinsley (born December 31, 1958) is an American broadcast journalist. In November 1978, she moved to the