Buffalo Bill was very, very loosely based on the real-life serial killer Ed Gein. I say "very, very loosely" based because Buffalo Bill and Ed Gein have only ONE thing in common: they both sewed together suits out of their victims' skin. Other than that, the Buffalo Bill character bears no resemblance to Ed Gein whatsoever.
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Ted Levine was born in Bellaire, Ohio, May 1957. After playing serial killer Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in 1991s The Silence of the Lambs, he went on to appear in numerous other film and TV roles. His most well known character is that of Captain Leland Stottlemeyer in TV's Monk - performing in 110 episodes from 2002 - 2009. He received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in 2008 for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for American Gangster (2007).
dr. Hannible Lectar. However many say that it is Buffalo Bill, but Hannible is more of a main character
A fisherman who killed his fish in his mill and ate them
In Australia, He was nicknamed "Cod-Fish" because he was a swimmer
Yes he plays Captain Stottlemeyer on the tv show Monk