IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001129/
Date of Birth:22 February 1944, Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA
Date of Death:26 April 2017, Manhattan, New York, USA (complications of esophageal cancer and heart disease)
Height:5' 10" (1.78 m)
Trademarks:Frequently casts Buzz Kilman in a cameo role Frequently uses Tak Fujimoto, as his director of photography Characters looking directly into the camera Frequently uses New Order songs in the score of his movies Heavy use of steadicam interspersed with shots of handheld shots Extreme close-ups on faces. Frequently casts Jason Robards, Roger Corman, Kenneth Utt, Obba Babatundé, Paul Lazar, Ted Levine, Harry Northup, Charles Napier, Dean Stockwell, Robert W. Castle, Chris Isaak, Jude Ciccolella, Tracey Walter and Denzel Washington in his films. Frequently casts locals to the shooting locations of his films, some of whom are non-actors.
Promising FBI Academy student Clarice Starling is pulled from her training at the FBI Training Facility at Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, who tasks her with presenting a VICAP questionnaire to the notorious Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant forensic psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial murderer. After learning the assignment relates to the pursuit of vicious serial killer Buffalo Bill, Starling travels to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and is led by Dr. Frederick Chilton to Hannibal Lecter, a sophisticated, cultured man restrained behind thick glass panels and windowless stone walls.