Stephen Orlac

Famous classical pianist who is the focus of Maurice Renard's 1920 horror novel Les Mains d'Orlac (The Hands of Orlac). After Orlac loses his hands in a railway accident, he gets transplants from an executed killer. After some mysterious events he begins to fear the hands are making him a killer as well. The novel has been adapted into film several times:

*Orlacs Hände (1924), aka The Hands of Orlac, a German film which renames him Paul Orlac (Conrad Veidt)

• Mad Love (1935), played by Colin Clive
• The Hands of Orlac (1960), played by Mel Ferrer.
• Hands of a Stranger (1962), which renames him Vernon Paris (James Stapleton) and is a looser adaptation

External Links

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf9PKWJlzzE