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Line 20: }} '''Dr. Hannibal Lecter''' is a character created by the American [[novelist]] [[Thomas Harris]]. Lecter is a [[serial killer]] who [[Human cannibalism\|eats his victims]]. Before his capture, he was a respected [[Forensic psychiatry\|forensic psychiatrist]]; after his incarceration, he is consulted by [[Federal Bureau of Investigation\|FBI]] agents [[Will Graham (character)\|Will Graham]] and [[Clarice Starling]] to help them find other serial killers. Lecter first appeared in a small role as a [[villain]] in Harris's 1981 [[thriller (genre)\|thriller]] novel ''[[Red Dragon (novel)\|Red Dragon]]'', which was adapted into the film [[Manhunter (film)\|''Manhunter'']] (1986), with [[Brian Cox (actor)\|Brian Cox]] as Lecter (spelled "Lecktor"). Lecter had a larger role in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (novel)\|The Silence of the Lambs]]'' (1988); the [[The Silence of the Lambs (film)\|1991 film adaptation]] starred [[Anthony Hopkins]] as Lecter, for which he won the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]]. Hopkins reprised the role for the [[Hannibal (2001 film)\|2001 adaptation]] of the 1999 novel ''[[Hannibal (Harris novel)\|Hannibal]],'' which sees Lecter evading recapture, and for a [[Red Dragon (2002 film)\|second adaptation of ''Red Dragon'']] in 2002.

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