Hannibal Lecter: who is Anthony Hopkins really inspired by in The Silence of the Lambs? – Cinema News
His name was Alfredo Ballí Treviño: he was the killer doctor who inspired the character of Hannibal Lecter and Anthony Hopkins when the time came to play him… Few fictional characters elicit such a visceral reaction as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the sadistic psychiatrist who first appeared in Thomas Harris’s 1981 novel, Dragon rougewith his penetrating…