Chilton taunts Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

Dr. Frederick Chilton is a fictional character appearing in Thomas Harris's Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. He is the director of the Chesapeake State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and later Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he treats his most infamous patient, Hannibal Lecter. In Manhunter, Chilton is played by Benjamin Hendrickson. In both The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, he is played by Anthony Heald. Image File history File links Chiltonsilence. ... Image File history File links Chiltonsilence. ... The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. ... Thomas Harris. ... For the Welsh flag, see Flag of Wales. ... The Silence of the Lambs is a 1988 novel by Thomas Harris, his second to feature sociopathic psychiatrist and cannibal Dr. Hannibal The Cannibal Lecter. ... Chesapeake is the name of various places in the United States of America: Chesapeake, Ohio Chesapeake, Virginia There are also: Chesapeake Academy, an independent PK-Gr 5 school located in Arnold, Maryland near Annapolis. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United... Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character appearing in four novels by author Thomas Harris and their film adaptations. ... Manhunter (1986; see also 1986 in film) is a film based on Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon. ... Benjamin Hendrickson (August 26, 1950 - July 3, 2006) was an American actor. ... The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. ... This entry is about the 2002 film. ... Anthony Heald is an American actor best known for portraying Hannibal Lecters smarmy psychiatrist, Frederick Chilton, in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, and as deputy principal Scott Guber in Boston Public. ...

His role in the novel Red Dragon is a minor one. The book's villain, Francis Dolarhyde, finds out from a tabloid article written by Freddy Lounds that Will Graham is seeking advice from Lecter, who replies by sending him a coded message in the personal ads section of Lounds' paper, The Tattler. Before Lecter's reply goes to press, however, a cleaning crew finds Dolarhyde's letter, written on toilet paper, hidden within Lecter's personal toilet paper spool. Chilton springs into action, calling the FBI to inform Graham and Jack Crawford. For the Welsh flag, see Flag of Wales. ... Francis Dolarhyde is a fictional character featured in Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Freddy Lounds is a fictional character in the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, and its film adaptations. ... This is about the character from Red Dragon. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Jack Crawford. ...

Part of the note, which instructed Lecter to reply via The Tattler, has been excised. The letter was written to be easily ingested, should the need arise, and apparently Lecter did just that. However, an analysis of the ink used allows their forensic scientists to see top of certain letters from the missing section, and Graham correctly guesses that it is The Tattler. They intercept Lecter's reply, but are unable to decipher it in time. So, they let it run in order to maintain and exploit the contact between Dolarhyde and Lecter. A codebreaker later figures out that the coded message is Graham's home address, which, in the book and the second film, Dolarhyde uses to track Graham down.

In The Silence of the Lambs, Chilton is once again called upon to allow an FBI agent to interview Lecter about an at-large serial killer, "Buffalo Bill." This time it is Clarice Starling, at whom he makes a clumsy pass, which is quickly rejected. Starling piques Lecter's interest at first by admitting her disdain for his hated keeper, and her visits with Lecter become much more frequent. Chilton grows jealous and resentful of Lecter's willingness to cooperate and share information with her, but not with him. The Silence of the Lambs is a 1988 novel by Thomas Harris, his second to feature sociopathic psychiatrist and cannibal Dr. Hannibal The Cannibal Lecter. ... Buffalo Bill is a fictional character featured in the 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris and its 1991 movie adaptation, in which he was played by Ted Levine. ... Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, with Anthony Hopkins as her nemesis, Hannibal Lecter, in the 1991 film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs Clarice Starling is a fictional character in the novels The Silence Of The Lambs and Hannibal by Thomas Harris. ...

He places recording devices in Lecter's cell to listen in on his conversations with Starling, and stumbles onto a goldmine: Starling, under Crawford's orders, made an offer to Lecter, that he would receive a transfer to a better prison facility and a week-long annual vacation if information he provided led to the arrest of Buffalo Bill. Chilton investigates this claim, and quickly finds that this bargain is false, and that Senator Ruth Martin, the mother of Buffalo Bill's captive, had not agreed to such a transfer. Chilton sets it up anyway, and quickly hogs the spotlight as the architect.

Lecter agrees and is transferred, but gives false information to Senator Martin and Paul Krendler from the Justice Department; he tells them the killer's name is "Billy Rubin," a reference to bilirubin, a pigment found in feces — and the exact shade of Chilton's hair. This effectively shuts out the FBI. However, he reserves the best information for Starling, and using that, she tracks Gumb down to Belvedere, Ohio. Lecter himself escapes custody, however, and Chilton becomes involved in the manhunt to recapture him. At the end of the book, Lecter sends a letter to Chilton, indicating that he intends to get revenge on Chilton, and that when he is done, he will need to be fed through a tube, and that feeding instructions should be "tattooed on his forehead." In the film, he calls Starling on the phone, and, while watching Chilton debark a plane, tells her that he is "having an old friend for dinner." Paul Krendler is a fictional character appearing in the latter two novels in Thomas Harriss Hannibal Lecter series, The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. ... Bilirubin is a yellow breakdown product of heme catabolism. ... For animal and plant pigments, see Pigment, biology. ... Feces, faeces, or fæces (see spelling differences) is waste product from an animals digestive tract expelled through the anus (or cloaca) during defecation. ... Belvedere is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Ohio depicted in the novel The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, as well as the 1991 motion picture based on the novel. ... Revenge or vengeance consists primarily of retaliation against a person or group in response to a perceived wrongdoing. ... A tattoo is a mark made by inserting pigment into the skin; in technical terms, tattooing is dermal pigmentation. ...

Lecter appears to have gotten his revenge, whatever that may be, as Chilton does not appear in Hannibal, and the hospital has been shut down. The novel of Hannibal mentions that Chilton disappeared while on vacation seven years prior. Hannibal is a 2001 film, directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from the Thomas Harris novel of the same name. ...

His role is expanded in the film Red Dragon, and his greed and ambitions are incorporated into this new, younger interpretation of the character. This entry is about the 2002 film. ...

It also seems that Fredrick Chilton is not a real psycologist at all as Hannibal asks Clarice if she has seen his credentials which she admits to not seeing. Also in Red DragonHannibal says he got some of Chiltons mail by accident and tells him he has been rejected again. This entry is about the 2002 film. ...