35 Facts About Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character created by the novelist Thomas Harris.

Hannibal Lecter first appeared in a small role as a villain in Harris' 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon, which was adapted into the film Manhunter, with Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter .

Hannibal Lecter had a larger role in The Silence of the Lambs ; the 1991 film adaptation starred Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Hopkins reprised the role for the 2001 adaptation of the 1999 novel Hannibal, which sees Lecter evading recapture, and for a second adaptation of Red Dragon in 2002.

Fourth novel, Hannibal Rising, explores Lecter's childhood and development into a serial killer.

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Hannibal Lecter was played in the 2007 film adaptation by Gaspard Ulliel.

In 2003, Hannibal Lecter, as portrayed by Hopkins, was named the greatest villain in American cinema by the American Film Institute.

In 2019, Hannibal Lecter, as portrayed by Mikkelsen, was named the 18th greatest villain in television history by Rolling Stone.

Hannibal Lecter was suspected of killing and dismembering several hitchhikers in the countryside during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Hannibal Lecter is a child of Lithuanian nobility and of the Visconti and Sforza families of Italy, and he is a cannibalistic serial killer.

Hannibal Lecter is highly intelligent and cultured, with refined tastes and impeccable manners.

Hannibal Lecter is deeply offended by rudeness, and often kills people who exhibit bad manners; according to the novel Hannibal, he "prefers to eat the rude".

Hannibal Lecter is the same way in his head, but he looks normal and nobody could tell.

All media in which Hannibal Lecter appears portray him as intellectually brilliant, cultured and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, music and cuisine.

Hannibal Lecter is frequently depicted preparing gourmet meals from his victims' flesh, the most famous example being his admission that he once ate a census taker's liver "with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" .

Hannibal Lecter's eyes are a shade of maroon, and reflect the light in "pinpoints of red".

Hannibal Lecter has small white teeth and dark, slicked-back hair with a widow's peak.

Hannibal Lecter has a keen sense of smell; in Red Dragon, he immediately recognizes Will Graham by his brand of aftershave, and in The Silence of the Lambs, he is able to identify through a plexiglass window with small holes the brand of perfume that Starling wore the day before.

Hannibal Lecter has an eidetic memory with which he has constructed in his mind an elaborate "memory palace" with which he relives memories and sensations in rich detail.

Hannibal Lecter has such terrifying physical power, and he doesn't waste an ounce of energy.

Hannibal Lecter is charged with a series of nine murders, but is found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Hannibal Lecter is institutionalized in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane under the care of Dr Frederick Chilton, a pompous, incompetent psychiatrist whom he despises, and who subjects him to a series of petty cruelties.

Hannibal Lecter is fascinated by Starling, and they form an unusual relationship in which he provides her with a profile of the killer and his modus operandi in exchange for details about her unhappy childhood.

Hannibal Lecter had previously met Gumb, the former lover of his patient Benjamin Raspail.

Hannibal Lecter kills Pazzi and returns to the United States to escape Verger's Sardinian henchmen, only to be captured.

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Harris wrote a 2006 prequel, Hannibal Rising, after film producer Dino De Laurentiis announced an intended film project depicting Lecter's childhood and development into a serial killer with or without Harris' help.

Shortly thereafter, he and Mischa are captured by a band of Nazi collaborators, who murder and cannibalize Mischa before her brother's eyes; Hannibal Lecter later learns that the collaborators fed him Mischa's remains.

Hannibal Lecter is found and taken back to his family's old castle, which had been converted into a Soviet orphanage, where he is bullied by the other children and abused by the dean.

Hannibal Lecter is adopted by his uncle Robert and Robert's Japanese wife, Lady Murasaki, who nurses him back to health and teaches him to speak again.

Hannibal Lecter kills for the first time as a teenager, beheading a racist fishmonger who insulted Murasaki.

In 2001, Hannibal Lecter was adapted to film, with Hopkins reprising his role.

In late 2006, the novel Hannibal Rising was adapted into a film, which portrayed Lecter's development into a serial killer.

Hannibal Lecter is often mentioned in songs by Detroit rapper Eminem such as "Medicine Ball" and "Underground".

In 2003, Hannibal Lecter was named the greatest villain in American cinema by the American Film Institute.

In 2019, Hannibal Lecter was named the 18th greatest villain in television history by Rolling Stone.