Hannibal Tetralogy character
Francis Dolarhyde
Aliases	The Great Red Dragon
Nicknames	Mr D. "D." The Tooth Fairy
Gender	Male
Race	Caucasian
Weight	217 lbs
Birth	1952
Relationships	Michael Trevane (Father) Marian Dolarhyde Trevane (Mother) Reba McClane (Girlfriend)
M.O.	Organized serial murder Mutilation
Weapon of Choice:	Pistol Teeth
Current status:	Deceased
Portrayed by:	Manhunter Tom Noonan Red Dragon Ralph Fiennes

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Character overview

He is a serial killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" due to his tendency to bite his victims' bodies, the uncommon size and sharpness of his teeth and other apparent oral fixations. Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Oral_stage. ...

Character history

Born in Springfield, Missouri, on June 14, 1938 with a bilateral complete cleft lip and palate, Dolarhyde suffered severe emotional and physical abuse in a series of orphanages and from his sadistic grandmother. After her death, he was turned over to the care of his estranged mother and her husband in St. Louis, Missouri; he was also abused by this family. He began torturing animals at a young age; after being caught breaking into a house at age 17, he was enlisted in the army. He developed schizophrenia which manifested itself by identification as another person. This other, violent personality manifesting itself as a monstrous being who Dolarhyde ultimately came to call the "Great Red Dragon", from the series of paintings by William Blake including The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun. Springfield is the third largest city in Missouri. ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Look up cleft lip and palate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Child abuse is the physical, sexual, or emotional maltreatment or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others. ... An orphanage (historically an orphans asylum before the latter word took on its modern insane asylum connotation) is an institution dedicated to caring for orphans (children who have lost their parents) and abused, abandoned, and neglected children. ... Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Cruelty to animals refers to treatment which causes unacceptable suffering to animals. ... William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. ... The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun was painted by the English poet and painter William Blake between 1806 and 1809. ...

Dolarhyde began his killing spree in 1978 by murdering two families within a month, both crimes being committed on or near a full moon; It is hinted in the book that he had killed before that, however. He chose his victims through the home movies he edited as a film processing technician. He believed that by killing people (or "transforming" them, as he called it) he could fully become the Dragon. He had a large tattoo of a dragon emblazoned on his back, and two sets of false teeth; one of them normal for his personal life, the other distorted and sharp for his killings, based off a mould of his grandmothers snaggle toothed grimace. (There was also a sexual component to his crimes; he molested the corpse of one adult female victim, and he would often masturbate to the films he himself made while committing murder.) Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Home Movies is a dialogue-driven animated series about 8-year-old Brendon Small (voiced by the creator, head writer, and lead musician of Home Movies Brendon Small), who makes films with his friends, Melissa and Jason, in his spare time. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with photographic developer. ... A maxillary denture Dentures (also known as dental plates), can be defined as a set of artificial teeth, which are used when a patient has lost real teeth on the mandibular arch, the maxillary arch, or both. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Body (disambiguation). ... Woman masturbating, 1913 drawing by Gustav Klimt. ...

FBI profiler Will Graham came out of early retirement to aid in his capture. Graham had previously captured Garrett Jacob Hobbs and Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic psychiatrist and serial killer, whom Dolarhyde idolized. Graham visited Lecter in the Chesapeake Mental Institute, hoping that the doctor would be able to help identify the Dragon, or at least assist in creating a psychological profile. Following this meeting, Lecter "helped" by sending Dolarhyde Graham's address in code. Dolarhyde was only foiled when FBI director Jack Crawford intercepted the message in time to warn off Graham's family. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), serving as both a federal criminal investigative body and a domestic intelligence agency. ... Offender profiling, or more scientifically, psychological profiling, is a behavioral and investigative tool that helps investigators to profile an unknown subject (unsub) or offender(s). ... Red Dragon. ... Retirement is the point where a person stops employment. ... Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of novels by author Thomas Harris. ... This article is about consuming ones own species. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine dealing with the prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of the mind and mental illness. ... In communications, a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, or phrase) into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same type. ... Jack Crawford. ...

Dolarhyde was an avid reader of The National Tattler, a tabloid which ran sensationalistic stories about serial killers, and he obsessively collected clippings about Lecter and Graham, as well as his own murders. To provoke Dolarhyde out of hiding, Graham gave an interview to Tattler reporter Freddy Lounds in which he said the "Tooth Fairy" was an impotent homosexual, and that Lecter considered him a "bottom-feeder." This enraged Dolarhyde, who kidnapped Lounds, forced him to recant his article on tape, and then leaned down to kiss him, but instead bit his lips off, set him on fire and rolled him down an incline going by the Tattler's parking garage and then slamming into a car. Lounds survived his wounds, but would later have a seizure and die. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Freddy Lounds is a fictional character in the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, and its film adaptations. ... Erectile dysfunction (ED) or impotence is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ...

Over the course of the novel, Dolarhyde fell in love with a blind woman named Reba McClane. While at first her intimacy with Dolarhyde quelled his murderous impulses, her presence only infuriated the other part of Dolarhyde's psyche. Desperate now to retain control of himself and deny his violent urges, Dolarhyde flew to New York, where he devoured the original Blake watercolor, believing it would destroy the Dragon. Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or psychological factors. ... Reba McClane is a fictional character from the Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon, the first in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, and also appears in the film adaptations Manhunter (played by Joan Allen) and Red Dragon (played by Emily Watson. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... NY redirects here. ... Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ...

The plan failed, however; if anything, Dolarhyde's ingestion of the painting only made the Dragon angrier. Dolarhyde killed McClane's former lover after seeing them together at her house, and apparently had planned to kill her and himself by setting his house on fire with her in it. Dolarhyde relented at the last minute, however, and apparently shot himself. Fans have debated why Dolarhyde did this; some believe that it was all part of the Dragon's plan to escape capture, while others think this was the only way Dolarhyde could save McClane from his sinister alter ego. Alter Ego has multiple meanings: Alter Ego is a game for the Commodore 64 computer. ...

In a later conversation with McClane, Graham told her, "There was plenty wrong with Dolarhyde, but there's nothing wrong with you. You said he was kind and thoughtful to you. I believe it. That's what you brought out in him. At the end, he couldn't kill you and he couldn't watch you die. People who study this kind of thing say he was trying to stop. Why? Because you helped him. That probably saved some lives. You didn't draw a freak. You drew a man with a freak on his back."

It turned out, however, that Dolarhyde was alive, having merely shot the corpse of one of his previous victims. Being blind, McClane was fooled. Dolarhyde later attacked Graham and stabbed him in the face, only for Graham's wife Molly to attack him with an aluminium fishing rod, precipitating a struggle which ultimately resulted in Dolarhyde's death.

Appearance

As well as his poorly reconstructed cleft lip, Dolarhyde is recognizable by several features. He is very muscular, and bears a massive tattoo of the Red Dragon on his back, continuing down so its tail wraps around one leg (this was not present in Manhunter, although scenes with the tattoo were filmed but never used). Finally, he wears false teeth, alternating between two different sets; he wears standard prosthetics at work, and his "Dragon teeth," created in imitation of his grandmother's sharp, snaggle-toothed grin, when committing murder. With these teeth and his powerful jaw muscles, he can bite through fingers easily. A maxillary denture Dentures (also known as dental plates), can be defined as a set of artificial teeth, which are used when a patient has lost real teeth on the mandibular arch, the maxillary arch, or both. ... A United States soldier demonstrates Foosball with two prosthetic limbs In medicine, a prosthesis is an artificial extension that replaces a missing part of the body. ... Dragons teeth (or Dragon Teeth) may refer to: Dragons teeth (mythology), the teeth of a dragon in Greek mythology which, once planted, grow into fully armed warriors Dragons teeth (fortification), fortifications used to impede the progress of mechanized armies in World War II Dragons Teeth (novel...

Dolarhyde maintains a massive ledger in which he keeps newspaper clippings describing his murders; besides the killings of Lounds and the two families, Harris implies that Dolarhyde was responsible for the murders of several elderly women (the ledger contains articles about their mysterious disappearances.) Dolarhyde also kept Lounds' lips in a baggie in the ledger.

Film adaptations

Francis Dollarhyde as portrayed by Tom Noonan.

Dolarhyde has been twice portrayed in movie adaptations of Harris' novel: By Tom Noonan (in which he was called 'Dollarhyde' instead of Dolarhyde) in 1986's Manhunter, and by Ralph Fiennes in 2002's Red Dragon. Image File history File links Francisdolarhydemanhunter. ... Image File history File links Francisdolarhydemanhunter. ... Noonan as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter, 1986 Tom Noonan (born April 12, 1951) is an American actor and film writer-director. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Noonan as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter, 1986 Tom Noonan (born April 12, 1951) is an American actor and film writer-director. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Manhunter (1986; see also 1986 in film) is a film based on Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon. ... Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes, (IPA: ), born 22 December 1962) is a Tony Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Genie Award-nominated British actor. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Red Dragon is a 2002 thriller film, based on the novel of the same name written by Thomas Harris featuring the brilliant psychiatrist and serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. ...

In Manhunter, Dollarhyde was filmed two different ways; shirtless with an elaborate tattoo covering his upper torso and back (as opposed to Dolarhyde's tattoos in the book, which only covered his back), and with a shirt on thus covering his tattoo. The latter was used in the finished film, partly because the tattoos were considered too distracting and similar to the ones that the Yakuza wore. The look, however, appeared on promotional photos for the film. Yakuza ), also known as gokudō (極道), are members of traditional organized crime groups in Japan. ...

In the first movie, Graham kills Dolarhyde, while in the second, both he and his wife have a hand in Dolarhyde's death, with Graham firing the majority of the shots in a crossfire with Dolarhyde, and his wife finishing him off as Dolarhyde rises back up, even with the bullet wounds.

In the book, Graham is attacked by Dolarhyde and stabbed in the face. He then runs leaving his wife and step son to deal with Dolarhyde. Grahams wife, Molly attacks Dolarhyde with an aluminum fishing rod then eventually shooting him in the head several times which leads to Dolarhyde's death.