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Anthony Heald

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Biography

An American actor known for portraying Hannibal Lecter's jail nemesis, Dr. Frederick Chilton in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, and for playing assistant principal Scott Guber in David E. Kelley's Boston Public. He also had a recurring role as Judge Cooper on Kelley's The Practice and Boston Legal.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Silence of the Lambs

Appears in a KinoChain journey

A Time to Kill

As Wilbert Rodeheaver

Deep Rising

As Simon Canton

The Client

As Larry Trumann

Liberty!

As Philip Vickers Fithian

Accepted

As Dean Van Horne

Kiss of Death

As Jack Gold

Red Dragon

As Dr. Chilton

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos

From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...

8 films

From Oscar Glory to Genre Gold: A Career Reinvention Chain

Trace the arc of performers who swapped prestige for pulp, and found a different kind of immortality in genre cinema.

4 films

The Mind's Eye: Crime Films of Obsession and Interiority

From a detective's haunted pursuit to a killer's fractured psyche, this chain traces cinema's most intimate crime stories, where the real action happens inside...

8 films

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