Disliked by several staff members and the vast majority of the inmates, Devlin eventually is in a sea of controversy once a city mayor whom he was politically involved with is sent to Oz for conspiring to commit a racially motivated bombing. Genevieve Beecher (Susan Floyd) – Beecher's wife.
Tobias Beecher is the protagonist and primary inmate featured in Oz. Portrayed by Lee Tergesen. Prisoner #97B412. Convicted July 5, 1997 - Driving While Intoxicated, Vehicular Manslaughter. Sentence: 15 years, up for parole in 4.
Tobias Beecher is a main character on the television show Oz, played by Lee Tergesen. He is one of only nine regular characters (both prisoners and guards) to survive the entire run of the show.
When Schillinger's son Andy ( Frederick Koehler) is sent to Oz, Beecher befriends the young man and arranges to share a cell with him. While Beecher does not mistreat Andy, he leads Schillinger to believe that he is going to sleep with him.
Genevieve BeecherRelativesHolly Beecher (Daughter) Gary Beecher (Son, deceased) Harry Beecher (Son) Harrison Beecher (Father in-law, deceased) Angus Beecher (Brother in-law) Unnamed Mother in-law Unnamed Grandmother in-lawKill Count0Episode Count1Portrayed bySusan Floyd15 more rows
Vernon Schillinger was the main antagonist of Tobias Beecher's storyline, and the primary Aryan inmate featured in Oz....Vernon SchillingerSchillinger the "Proud American".First appearance"The Routine" (episode 1.01)Last appearance"Exeunt Omnes" (episode 6.08)Reason/CauseKilled by Tobias Beecher14 more rows
Keller, who had genuinely fallen in love with Beecher, tries to win back his trust, but Beecher refuses to forgive him. Beecher soon gets to work enacting his revenge. First, he kills Metzger by slashing his throat with his sharpened fingernails, then non-lethally stabs Keller.
Kathleen WiddoesOz (TV Series 1997–2003) - Kathleen Widdoes as Mrs. Beecher, Tobias Beecher's Mother - IMDb.
Since then, television stations in Pennsylvania and its surrounding areas were forced to drop The Dr. Oz Show from their schedules because of the equal-time rule, which states that political candidates be given equal broadcast air-time.
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Hank Schillinger severs the hand of Beecher's son and mails it to Beecher in Oz. Hank kills Beecher's son before ultimately releasing his daughter. Schillinger also pays another prisoner to tell Beecher that Keller is responsible for the kidnapping.
Keller tried to win him back in season three, even confessing to the authorities his role in the Beecher attack to prove his penitence, but his true love remained unmoved. Demonstrably so, in that Beecher stabbed Keller.
Peter Schibetta was an Italian inmate featured in Oz. He was Ryan O'Reily's main antagonist in Season 2. Portrayed by Eddie Malavarca....Peter SchibettaReason/CauseMurdered by The ItaliansDetailsPrisoner No.98S112AliasesPetey , Little Nino13 more rows
Arija BareikisBornArija Allison Bareikis July 21, 1966 Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.Alma materStanford UniversityOccupationActressYears active1992–present
Christopher "Chris" Keller was an inmate and the central character featured in Tobias Beecher's storyline. Portrayed by Christopher Meloni....Chris KellerLast appearance"Exeunt Omnes" (episode 6.08)Reason/CauseCommitted SuicideDetailsPrisoner No.98K51414 more rows
a reformer who favors abolishing slavery. clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend. a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church.
Significant other. Chris Keller. Tobias Beecher is a main character on the television show Oz, played by Lee Tergesen. He is one of only nine regular characters (both prisoners and guards) to survive the entire run of the show.
Season 2. Beecher shares a cell with James Robson (R.E. Rodgers), an Aryan who tries to make Beecher perform oral sex on him. Beecher bites off the tip of Robson's penis, landing him in solitary. There, he is interviewed by Alvah Case ( Charles S. Dutton ), who is investigating the riot.
However, Beecher refuses to forgive him. Beecher then kills Metzger by sharpening his fingernails and slashing his throat. Later, Beecher stabs Keller shortly after his release from the infirmary. When Schillinger's son Andy ( Frederick Koehler) is sent to Oz, Beecher befriends the young man and arranges to share a cell with him. While Beecher does not mistreat Andy, he leads Schillinger to believe that he is going to sleep with him. Moved by Beecher's kindness, Andy renounces his father and his white supremacist ideology. Schillinger arranges to have his own son killed, having him thrown in solitary and getting a prison guard to deliver heroin on which he overdoses. Beecher feels guilty for his part in Andy's death and, following advice from Muslim leader Kareem Saïd ( Eamonn Walker ), resolves to ask forgiveness from Keller and Schillinger. Beecher finally forgives Keller after saving him from Schillinger's attack and the two reunite as lovers.
At the show, Beecher sings a rendition of " I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) " while dressed in women's clothing and makeup.
The effort fails and the judge, a family friend of the Beechers, decides to make an example of him and sentences him to 15 years in the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary ("Oz") with a chance for parole after four. Beecher's personal transformation forms a major part of the show's drama.
Afterwards, convicted rapists Franklin Winthrop (Andy Powers) and Adam Guenzel ( Mike Doyle) arrive in Oz, the latter being a friend of Beecher's family.
Hank kills Beecher's son before ultimately releasing his daughter. Schillinger also pays another prisoner to tell Beecher that Keller is responsible for the kidnapping. Enraged, Beecher tries to kill Keller. When Beecher learns the truth, he tries to apologize to Keller, but Keller casts him aside.
Joey D'Angelo (Goodfella Mike G ) – The man who steps up to take Ortolani's place following his murder. He assists Schibetta in running the kitchen, until he is hospitalised following a beating by the Homeboys. Peter Schibetta (Eddie Malavarca) – Nino's son, sent to Oz for money laundering and extortion.
Eugene Rivera (Nelson Vasquez ) – An officer who was previously a member of a rival gang to El Cid's. He comes to Oz and works in Em City. Hernandez orders Alvarez to blind Rivera, which Alvarez does. Afterwards, Rivera participates in the Sister Pete's victim-offender program with Alvarez.
1, 2, 3, 4. One of the youngest inmates in Oz, Wangler was sixteen when he committed murder and was tried as an adult. Wangler exhibits the qualities of a juvenile delinquent: cocky, hot-headed and sadistic.
Governor James Devlin ( Željko Ivanek) – A right-wing politician, Governor Devlin represents all extreme mechanisms of law and order to make society "crime free." He passes several acts to minimize prisoner rights and increase law enforcement spending. Disliked by several staff members and the vast majority of the inmates, Devlin eventually is in a sea of controversy once a city mayor whom he was politically involved with is sent to Oz for conspiring to commit a racially motivated bombing.
A deleted scene sees him murdered by a member of the Russian Secret Police. Guillaume Tarrant ( Lothaire Bluteau) – An inmate sent to Oz for destroying a statue in a museum. A diminutive man, he is sponsored by Hoyt, who promptly mugs him. He is also frequently picked on by Wangler, Pierce and Poet.
The Irish are perhaps the smallest gang in Oz based on membership, mostly driven by the schemes of Ryan O'Reily. As a gang they might appear to be insignificant, but Ryan O'Reily manages to factor into most major plots throughout the series.
George Morfogen. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. An elderly inmate serving life for murder. He was originally sentenced to death, but in 1965, he survived a botched electric chair execution when the power went off and his sentence was commuted.
Genevieve has been thinking about a divorce with her husband Tobias Beecher as he is serving 15 years with the possibility of parole in 4, her and Tobias visit in a Conjugal room, she tells him Holly Beecher drew a picture in school of the family and he is not in the picture then a year later Tobias discovers that his wife had committed suicide, but gets over her death and starts having feelings for Chris Keller ..
Genevieve visits Tobias Beecher, she finds out about the Nazi sign on the end of his butt, she tells him that their daughter Holly Beecher drew a picture in school of the family and says he is not in the photo. He never sees his wife again after they stop visiting Tobias.
Genevieve is never seen on Season 2 but is heard about her death. Beecher hears about his wife's suicide and that she blames him in her suicide note. But later Vernon appears to him suggesting he had Beecher's wife killed and made to look like a suicide.
Beecher is sent to Oz for vehicular manslaughter after accidentally running over a young girl with his car while driving drunk.
Beecher develops a friendship with inmate Ryan O'Reily after agreeing to try to help him appeal his case, and O'Reily tries to help him cope with Schillinger's abuse by supplying him with marijuana. When Beecher talks about the execution of Jefferson Keane with O'Reily he realises O'Reily set Keane up.
When Schillinger finds Beecher in the library reading up on the death penalty, he realises he's trying to help Keane. As punishment, Schillinger makes Beecher eat pages out of the law book he was reading. Beecher feels guilty about failing to save Keane and begins shooting heroin, supplied by O'Reily, in numb the pain.
When he is caught, he refuses to implicate Keller. Beecher contributes to the fund to send Bob Rebadow 's dying grandson to Disney World. When guard Karl Metzger, a neo-Nazi, brings Beecher to the gym, he sees Schillinger and Keller, who taunt him about the betrayal.
Keller saves Beecher by falsely confessing to ordering the hit on Hank. Schillinger assures Beecher that his family is safe and says he wants to believe in something other than hate. He tells Beecher he is sorry for Gary's death, and Beecher expresses the same remorse for Hank's death.
Keller is implicated for several murders he committed before he was sent to Oz and is put in death row. When a family friend, Adam Guenzel, is put in Oz for rape, Beecher tries to protect him from being raped by the Aryans. At first he asks Said's help in keeping Gunzel safe but he refuses.
Meanwhile, Schillinger humiliates Beecher by making him wear women's makeup and perform in the prison talent show. Schillinger eventually grows tired of Beecher and tries to get him killed by making him wear a t-shirt with the Confederate flag on it. Beecher runs to O'Reily's cell and asks him for help.
But sociopathic love works in mysterious ways on Oz: Keller missed Beecher’s full-time presence so much so that he got Beecher’s parole revoked by tricking him into buying illegal drugs (again, long story).
Laundry Room Love. Beecher, a married alcoholic attorney convicted of killing a child while drunk driving, was a timid newbie when the show began, tormented by his cellmate, evil Aryan leader Vern Schillinger (J.K. Simmons, also now playing a sitcom dad !).
While Keller was in the hole, a moony Beecher turned to drink, and was devastated when Keller finally emerged and unexpectedly ended their burgeoning romance without any explanation. The mystery was solved when Beecher was moping in the gym, once the triumphant site of his face-shitting victory over Schillinger.
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It was made to look like a suicide, and she was forced at gunpoint to write a note in which she blamed her death on despondency over what Beecher had done.) Anyway, after a murder (it’s a long story), a big fight, and a breakup, Beecher pursued other men, which inflamed Keller’s jealousy.
OZ chronicles McManus' (Terry Kinney) efforts to control the inmates of Em (erald) City as well as the drug trade and the violence. There have been many groups of inmates during the run of the show and not everybody makes it out alive.
Some cast members that played prisoners have noted that, throughout the series, if you showed up late to the set, your punishment would be that your character would either die or be raped the next week.
Grew up… in a different world than most of his fellow inmates. Tobias, a Harvard Law graduate, was a civilized and sophisticated man before he was sent to prison for manslaughter after driving drunk.
The prisoners at the Oswald State Penitentiary are behind bars for murder, violent assault, drugs, and other crimes. One prisoner was even convicted of decapitating an undercover police officer, solidifying his reputation as one of Oz's most dangerous prisoners.
Beecher, however, rejects Keller and refuses to forgive him unless he confesses to his role in the attack. Beecher then kills Metzger . While Keller does confess, Beecher still withholds forgiveness, and ambushes Keller shortly after his release from the infirmary, stabbing him. Although Keller never sees his attacker, Beecher tells him that he'd been the one who attacked him some time later, and also said he didn't at the same time. The conflict between Beecher and Schillinger continues throughout the run of the series. When Schillinger's son Andy is arrested and incarcerated in Oz, Beecher sees his chance to get even with Schillinger by befriending the young man and arranging to share a cell with him. While Beecher never does anything to Andy and in fact helps him cope with his withdrawal from drugs, he leads Schillinger to believe that he is going to bed Andy, since Andy now likes him. Moved by Beecher's kindness, Andy renounces his father and everything he believes in. Schillinger then arranges to have his own son killed, by having him thrown in solitary and asking a prison guard to deliver heroin to him in the hole, knowing he'd break from his sobriety and overdose on the drug. Beecher's co-conspirators in the plan ( Chris Keller and Ryan O’Reily) are happy about the outcome, since they have tormented Schillinger and turned his son against him. Beecher isn't as satisfied, despite having gotten revenge, and he feels guilty for his part in Andy's death. At this point, Beecher is cellmates with former Muslim leader Kareem Said, who convinces Beecher to resolve his guilt by asking for forgiveness from Keller and Schillinger. As the racial tension in Oz intensifies, Beecher and Saïd are the only men of different backgrounds who remain friends. Beecher finally forgives Keller after saving him from Schillinger's attack. In spite of Saïd's disapproval, Keller and Beecher reunite as lovers in the season's finale.
Prisoner 97B412. Convicted July 5, 1997 – Driving while intoxicated, vehicular manslaughter. Sentence: 15 years, up for parole in four. Parole denied in 2001. Granted parole in 2003. Returned to OZ later that year due to a parole violation.