Buffalo Bill (character)

Buffalo Bill (character)

Jame Gumb (known by the nickname Buffalo Bill) is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Thomas Harris's 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs and its 1991 film adaptation, in which he was played by Ted Levine. In the film and the novel, he is a serial killer who murders overweight women and skins them so he can make a "woman suit" for himself.

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