Anthony Hopkins

British actor Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award as Best Actor for his iconic performance as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), and he has played other villains in his long career. However, HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano observe in this podcast episode that Hopkins is a remarkably versatile actor, who is just as effective playing genteel characters with good table manners in the Merchant Ivory period films "Howards End" (1992) and "The Remains of the Day" (1993). And Hopkins has portrayed such real-life figures as Richard Nixon, Alfred Hitchcock and Pablo Picasso. He's a class act. Indeed, he's officially Sir Anthony Hopkins, although he prefers to be called Tony.