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Hannibal Lecter (“Silence of the Lambs”). Hannibal performed by Anthony Hopkins combines the features of a cruel psychopath and an outstanding intellectual. The author of the terrible book “Silence of the Lambs” Thomas Harris admitted that the villain has a real prototype. Director Jonathan Demme took Dr. Lecter only 16 minutes of screen time. But Hopkins still got an Oscar for this role.