"Jack Crawford (character) Jack Crawford is a fictional character who appears in the Hannibal Lecter series of books by Thomas Harris, in which Crawford is the Agent-in-Charge of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. He is modeled after John E. Douglas, who held the same position. Jack Crawford first appears in the novel ""Red Dragon"", in which he calls upon Will Graham, his former protégé, for assistance in solving the murders being committed by a serial killer dubbed ""The Tooth Fairy."" Graham, as a profiler, has a reputation for being able to think like the criminals"
"highest bestselling novel in 1999. Hannibal (Harris novel) Hannibal is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 1999. It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place seven years after the events of ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott. Elements of the novel were incorporated into the second season of the NBC television series ""Hannibal"", while"
"Hannibal (Harris novel) Hannibal is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 1999. It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place seven years after the events of ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott. Elements of the novel were incorporated into the second season of the NBC television series ""Hannibal"", while the show's third season adapted"
"in a cell, taunting 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"
"Hannibal (Leckie novel) Hannibal is a 1995 historical novel by Scottish writer Ross Leckie. The book relates the exploits of Hannibal's invasion of Rome beginning in 218 BC, narrated by the Carthaginian general in his retirement. It was the first of the ""Carthage"" trilogy, covering the Punic Wars. The novel received mixed reviews, mainly due to the extreme violence occasionally described in the narrative. Beginning with the general’s youth and a potted history of Carthage in an attempt to explain Hannibal’s hatred of Rome, the bulk of the story is confined to the invasion of Italy and the epic journey"
"1970s. In 1981, Thomas Harris wrote ""Red Dragon"" as the first novel to introduce Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The character is said to be based on the real life Dr. Alfredo Balli Trevino. In 1988, Harris wrote the sequel, ""The Silence of the Lambs"". Early cinema was inspired by many aspects of horror literature, and early horror cinema started a strong tradition of horror films and subgenres based on horror fiction that continues to this day. Up until the graphic depictions of violence and gore on the screen commonly associated with the 1960s and 1970s slasher films and splatter films, comic"
"Frederick Chilton Dr. Frederick Chilton is a fictional character appearing in Thomas Harris' novels ""Red Dragon"" and ""The Silence of the Lambs"". Chilton is first introduced in Harris' 1981 novel ""Red Dragon"" as the pompous, incompetent director of a sanitarium near Baltimore, Maryland, acting as the jailer for the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter. When FBI profiler Will Graham goes to Lecter for advice on capturing another serial killer, Francis Dolarhyde, Chilton makes an unwelcome attempt to question Graham about Lecter's psyche. When Dolarhyde learns of Graham's visits with Lecter, the two killers attempt to correspond through the classifieds of"
"Freddy Lounds Freddy Lounds (or Fredricka ""Freddie"" Lounds) is a fictional character in the Hannibal Lecter series, created by author Thomas Harris. Lounds first appears in the 1981 novel ""Red Dragon"" as a foil to protagonist Will Graham. Lounds is ultimately murdered by the novel's primary antagonist, serial killer Francis Dolarhyde. Harris describes Lounds as ""lumpy and ugly and small"", with ""buck teeth"", and whose ""rat eyes had the sheen of spit on asphalt"". In terms of personality, Harris further describes Lounds as having ""the longing need to be noticed that is often miscalled ego"", sharpened by frustrated ambition: Resentful"
"According to James Fox, filmmaker Donald Cammell ""...looked upon violence as an artist might look on paint. [He asked:] What are its components? What's its nature? Its glamour?"" Thomas Harris created a fictional character called Hannibal Lecter, a cannibal and aesthete killer. In the films adapted from his work, ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991) and ""Hannibal"" (2001), directors Jonathan Demme and Ridley Scott, respectively intentionally generate excitement and anticipation when Lecter is about to kill (and eat) a victim. Lecter was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. In David Lynch's ""Blue Velvet"" (1986), the villain of the film, Frank Booth, is"
"on novels by Thomas Harris. Hannibal (film) Hannibal is a 2001 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1999 novel of the same name. It is the sequel to the 1991 Academy Award–winning film ""The Silence of the Lambs"" in which Anthony Hopkins returns to his role as the serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Julianne Moore co-stars, in the role first held by Jodie Foster, as FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The film had a difficult and occasionally troubling pre-production history. When the novel was published in 1999, ""The Silence of the Lambs"" director Jonathan"
"said of Harris, ""All he is is a talent of the first rank."" Thomas Harris William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films, the most notable being ""The Silence of the Lambs"", which became only the third film in Academy Award history to sweep the Oscars in major categories. Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but moved as a child with his family to Rich, Mississippi. He was introverted and bookish in"
"Hannibal Rising Hannibal Rising is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 2006. It is a prequel to his three previous books featuring his most famous character, the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. It is Harris' fifth and most recent novel. The novel was released with an initial printing of at least 1.5 million copies and met with a mixed critical response. Audiobook versions have also been released, with Harris reading the text. The novel was adapted (by Harris himself) into a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Peter Webber. Opening in Lithuania during"
"needed to be part of our Hannibal Lecter story. Between Lynch and Kubrick, there's a lot of inspiration."" English actor Hugh Dancy was the first actor to be cast, taking on the lead role of FBI criminal profiler Will Graham, who seeks help from Lecter in profiling and capturing serial killers. In June 2012, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen was cast as Lecter. Soon after this, actor Laurence Fishburne was cast as FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit commander Jack Crawford. Caroline Dhavernas was later cast as Dr. Alana Bloom, a former student of Hannibal Lecter, and Hettienne Park was cast as CSI"
"Hannibal (film) Hannibal is a 2001 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1999 novel of the same name. It is the sequel to the 1991 Academy Award–winning film ""The Silence of the Lambs"" in which Anthony Hopkins returns to his role as the serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Julianne Moore co-stars, in the role first held by Jodie Foster, as FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The film had a difficult and occasionally troubling pre-production history. When the novel was published in 1999, ""The Silence of the Lambs"" director Jonathan Demme, screenwriter Ted Tally, and"
"which was never realized. In the NBC series ""Hannibal"" the character of Hannibal Lecter's psychiatrist, played by Gillian Anderson, whose complicity with and knowledge of his crimes is uncertain, is called Bedelia DuMaurier in reference to this work. Bedelia (novel) Bedelia is a novel by Vera Caspary first published in 1945 about a blissfully happy newlywed couple in which the husband learns that his wife may have a criminal past. His growing suspicion and discovery of corroborating evidence lead him to think that she might be a serial killer, and that he could be her next victim. Set in small-town"
"cannibal, and one of them understands those cannibalistic instincts all too well."" Hannibal Lecter is parodied in the 2005 musical, ""SILENCE! The Musical"", with the character being originated by actor Brent Barrett. Thomas Harris has given few interviews and did not explain where he got inspiration for Hannibal Lecter until mid-2013. Harris revealed that the character was inspired by a real-life doctor and murderer he met while visiting a prison in the city of Monterrey during a trip to Mexico in the 1960s when he was a 23-year-old reporter. The doctor was serving a life sentence for murdering a young"
"the Lambs"", Starling is a student at the FBI Academy. Her mentor, Behavioral Sciences Unit chief Jack Crawford, sends her to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. He is housed in a Baltimore mental institution. Upon arriving at the asylum for her first interview with Lecter, the asylum manager Frederick Chilton makes a crude pass at her, which she rebuffs; this helps her bond with Lecter, who despises Chilton. As time passes, Lecter gives Starling information about Buffalo Bill, a currently active serial killer being hunted by the FBI, but only in exchange for personal"
"20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist, criticism of the book continued due to both its perceived use of racial stereotypes and its frequent use of the racial slur ""nigger"". In order of appearance: The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri (based on the actual town of Hannibal, Missouri), on the shore of the Mississippi River ""forty to fifty years ago"" (the novel having been published in 1884). Huckleberry ""Huck"" Finn (the protagonist and first-person narrator) and his friend, Thomas ""Tom"" Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of"
"Hannibal (TV series) Hannibal is an American psychological horror–thriller television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC. The series is based on characters and elements appearing in Thomas Harris' novels ""Red Dragon"" and ""Hannibal"", with focus on the relationship between FBI special investigator Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), a forensic psychiatrist destined to become Graham's most cunning enemy and at the same time, the only person who can understand him. The series received a 13-episode order for its first season and, unlike most U.S. network shows, all future seasons would feature 13 episodes. David Slade"
"accident five years before. He tracks down the doctor who treated the victim in the emergency room, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, now a renowned psychiatrist, to see if he remembers any suspicious circumstances surrounding the patient. During their first meeting, Lecter claims not to remember very much. Graham returns to see Lecter in his office, and within minutes realizes that Lecter is the killer he seeks. Graham goes to Lecter's outer office and makes a phone call to the FBI's Baltimore Field Office. Lecter, who has removed his shoes, sneaks up on Graham and slashes his abdomen with a linoleum knife,"
"whom Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel ""The Jungle"" chronicles the life of the Lithuanian community in Chicago and the treatment of workers in the Chicago Stockyards. The second, Hannibal Lecter, the villain of ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and ""Hannibal"", was born in Lithuania but later moved to the United States and took U.S. citizenship. Marko Ramius, the Soviet submarine captain in ""The Hunt for Red October"", is also described as ""Lithuanian by birth"" and as the ""Vilnius Schoolmaster"". Chicago, Illinois, is home to the second largest population of Lithuanians in the world, and the old ""Lithuanian Downtown"" in Bridgeport was"
"in Italy and the United States. The novel ""Hannibal"" drew attention for its violence. ""Hannibal"" broke box office records in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom in February 2001, but was met with a mixed critical reception. Ten years after tracking down serial killer Jame Gumb, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is unjustly blamed for a botched drug raid. She is later contacted by Mason Verger, the only surviving victim of the serial killer Hannibal Lecter. A wealthy child molester, Verger was paralyzed and brutally disfigured by Lecter during a therapy session. He has been pursuing an"
"1941, Hannibal Lecter is eight years old and living in a castle with his parents and sister, Mischa. With the castle located near the eastern front of World War II, the Lecter family escapes to their lodge to elude the advancing German troops. With the castle abandoned, it is soon raided by Germans and civilians aiding them, their hidden art collection among the stolen loot. Three years later, an advancing Soviet tank stops at the Lecter family's lodge looking for water, only to be bombed by a German Stuka, the explosion killing all but the children. Surviving in the lodge,"
"Minnesota. With the investigation weighing heavily on Graham, Crawford decides to have him supervised by forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Initially, Lecter – who is secretly a cannibalistic serial killer – works to manipulate the FBI from within, but the bond he builds with Graham begin to threaten his longevity. Lecter is fascinated by Graham's ability to empathize with psychopathic murderers, and tries to push the boundaries of Graham's fragile sanity in order to turn him into a killer himself. NBC began developing a ""Hannibal"" series in 2011 and former head of drama Katie O'Connell brought in her long-time friend"
"Ridley Scott's ""Hannibal"" (2001), and ""Red Dragon"" (2002). His original portrayal of the character in ""The Silence of the Lambs"" has been labelled by the AFI as the number-one film villain. Director Jonathan Demme wanted a British actor for the role, with Jodie Foster stating, ""Lecter is a manipulator and has a way of using language to keep people at bay. You wanted to see that Shakespearean monster."" At the time he was offered the role, Hopkins was making a return to the London stage, performing in ""M. Butterfly"". He had come back to Britain after living for a number"
"assures her that he does not plan to pursue her and asks her to return the favor, which she says she cannot do. Lecter then hangs up the phone, saying that he is ""having an old friend for dinner"", and starts following a newly arrived Chilton before disappearing into the crowd. ""The Silence of the Lambs"" is based on Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name and is the second film to feature the character Hannibal Lecter following the 1986 film ""Manhunter"". Prior to the novel's release, Orion Pictures partnered with Gene Hackman to bring the novel to the"
"Brian Cox (actor) Brian Denis Cox (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor who works with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. Cox is also known for appearing in ""Super Troopers"", ""The Bourne Identity"", ""The Bourne Supremacy"", ""X2"", ""Braveheart"", ""Rushmore"", ""Rise of the Planet of the Apes"", and ""Troy."" He was the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter on film in 1986's ""Manhunter"". An Emmy Award winner, Cox has also been nominated for Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2006, ""Empire"" readers voted him the recipient of the"
"in film and literature, sometimes incorporating a hybrid of traditional psychopaths from early film and late-19th century literature with the high-functioning behaviors detected in some serial killers. The psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer Dr. 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"
"(1998), ""State of Play"" (2009), and ""Madras Cafe"" (2013). In the 1990s and early 2000s, many horror films and thrillers started to blend mystery and suspense into stories centered around clever, sociopathic serial killers or various mysterious supernatural occurrences. The Hannibal Lecter novels by Thomas Harris have inspired four films, ""Manhunter"" (1986), the Academy Award-winning ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991), ""Hannibal"" (2001), and ""Red Dragon"" (2002). Other films in which this blend occurs include ""When the Bough Breaks"" (1994), ""Seven"" (1995), ""Kiss the Girls"" (1997), adapted from the James Patterson novel, ""The Bone Collector"" (1999), ""Mercy"" (2000), ""Along Came"
"to present a questionnaire to the brilliant forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Lecter is serving nine consecutive life sentences in a Maryland mental institution for a series of murders. Crawford's real intention, however, is to try to solicit Lecter's assistance in the hunt for a serial killer dubbed ""Buffalo Bill"", whose modus operandi involves kidnapping overweight women, starving them for up to two weeks, killing and skinning them, and dumping the remains in nearby rivers. The nickname was started by Kansas City Homicide, as a sick joke that ""he likes to skin his humps."" Throughout the investigation,"
"Hannibal King Hannibal King is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared as a supporting character in the 1970s comic book ""The Tomb of Dracula"". The character is usually depicted as a supernatural detective. Hannibal King was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A private detective making a modest living, King was bitten and killed by the vampire Deacon Frost while on a case in London, England. Waking up to find himself one of the undead, King was horrified at what he had become and vowed never to consummate the curse by passing it"
"leaves them as he flees before the police arrive. He is shown in a post-credits scene aboard a flight to France with his psychiatrist, Bedelia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson). The third season amends the series' continuity to incorporate events from the novel ""Hannibal"". It also changes Lecter's origin story: in this continuity, Lecter's sister Mischa was murdered, cannibalized, and fed to him by a peasant in his native Lithuania, who would eventually become his prisoner. Certain episodes also suggest that, in his youth, Lecter was the unidentified serial killer known as ""The Monster of Florence"". Months after his escape, Lecter"
"her father, William Hobbs, petitioned the General Court to compensate him for £40 expenses that the family's imprisonment cost him but said he was willing to accept £10, which the court granted him in 1712. She was among those named in the Act for Reversal of Attainder by the Massachusetts Great and General Court, October 17, 1711. Abigail Hobbs is the name of a teenage girl who is the daughter and acts as an accomplice to her father's serial murders in Hannibal (TV series). Abigail later develops a complicated daughter-like relationship with Hannibal Lecter, and also becomes his confidant in"