He is arguably best known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs, its sequel, Hannibal, and its prequel, Red Dragon. Other notable film credits include The Elephant Man, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Remains of the Day, The Mask of Zorro, The World's Fastest Indian, Hearts in Atlantis, Nixon and Fracture. Hopkins was born and raised in Wales, and also became a U.S. citizen on April 12, 2000. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003 and was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2008.
Hopkins' most famous role is the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992. He was opposite to Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, who also won for Best Actress. In addition, the film won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is the shortest lead performance to win an Oscar, as Hopkins only appears for approximately sixteen minutes. Hopkins went on to reprise his role as Lecter two times (Hannibal in 2001, Red Dragon in 2002). His original portrayal of the character in The Silence of the Lambs has been labelled by the American Film Institute as the number-one film villain.
Hopkins has played many famous historical and fictional characters including:
John Quincy Adams (Amistad, 1997)
Pierre Bezukhov (War and Peace, 1972)
William Bligh (The Bounty, 1984)
Charles Dickens (The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens, 1970)
John Frost (A Bridge Too Far, 1977)
Bruno Hauptmann (The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, 1976)
Abraham Van Helsing (Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992)
Adolf Hitler (The Bunker, 1981)
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (The Road to Wellville, 1994)
C. S. Lewis (Shadowlands, 1993)
David Lloyd George (Young Winston, 1972)
Burt Munro (The World's Fastest Indian, 2005)
Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs, 1991)
(Hannibal, 2001) (Red Dragon, 2002) |
Hrothgar (Beowulf, 2007)
Richard Nixon (Nixon, 1995)
Ptolemy I Soter (Alexander, 2004)
St. Paul (Peter and Paul, 1981)
Othello (Othello, 1981)
Pablo Picasso (Surviving Picasso, 1996)
Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1982)
Yitzak Rabin (Victory at Entebbe, 1976)
Richard Lionheart (The Lion in Winter, 1968)
Marcus Crassus (Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus, 1992)
Titus Andronicus (Titus, 1999)
Frederick Treves (The Elephant Man, 1980)
Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro (The Mask of Zorro, 1998) |
The cache is a very simple two stage. You will only have to drive into the Hopkins Cemetery, park beside the marker named below, read the name, get the stage II coordinates, and then it's just a short walk over to the cache. However, that may be where the fun begins. You are seeking a camouflaged matchstick container
Stage I
Park at the marker for a U.S. Army Private in World War II named Houston. Match his first name to find the coordinates to stage II.
Stage II
A. Gomer N33° 11.095 W095° 59.796
B. Sam N33° 11.068 W095° 59.820
C. Precious N33° 11.076 W095° 59.821
Avoid the use of acronym only logs and cut 'n paste logs. You must sign the log to claim the find. No exceptions, no excuses. Blank logs may be deleted without notice.