TV series
Oz
Overview
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Details
- First air date
- 1997-07-12
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 6 seasons
- Episodes
- 56 episodes
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Network
- HBO
- Production
- The Levinson/Fontana Company, Rysher Entertainment
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Lee Tergesen as Tobias Beecher
- Harold Perrineau as Augustus Hill
- Dean Winters as Ryan O'Reily
- Eamonn Walker as Kareem Saïd
- Ernie Hudson as Leo Glynn
- Terry Kinney as Tim McManus
- Rita Moreno as Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
- J.K. Simmons as Vernon Schillinger
- Kirk Acevedo as Miguel Alvarez
- Craig muMs Grant as Poet
- BD Wong as Father Ray Mukada
- George Morfogen as Bob Rebadow
Creators and crew
- Tom Fontana - Creator
- Tom Fontana - Executive Producer
- Barry Levinson - Executive Producer
- Jim Finnerty - Executive Producer
- Irene Burns - Producer
- Adam Bernstein - Director
Seasons
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