Finding himself cornered on the roof of the building as he tried to escape, he shot and killed one officer. The others threw him off the roof in retaliation, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, after which he began using a wheelchair. At the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary ("Oz"), Hill is a mostly neutral figure.

His breakthrough role came in 1997 when he was cast as August Hill, a wheelchair-bound prisoner whose monologue introduced each episode of the gritty dramatic series Oz.

As he uses a wheelchair and is not associated with any gang members, Hill remains as one of the more consistently decent characters on the show, struggling to avoid moral compromise while staying alive in the dangerous world of Oswald Maximum Security Prison.

Jul 12, 1997 · Oz is the name on the street for the Oswald State Penitentiary. Our wheelchair-bound narrator Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.) takes us through the wacky world of Emerald City, the experimental unit started by Tim McManus (Terry Kinney).

Oz is an American prison drama television series set at a fictional men's prison created and principally written by Tom Fontana. [1][2] It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by the premium cable network HBO. [3] . Oz premiered on July 12, 1997, and ran for six seasons. The series finale aired on February 23, 2003.

Oz: Created by Tom Fontana. With Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, J.K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen. A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.

The characters of Oz, fictional characters on the television series about prison life, are a diverse mixture of inmates from various gangs and prison staff.

Apr 30, 2002 · Televisionary: Inmate Augustus Hill is played by thespian Harold Perrineau, Jr. whom you may have caught in a guest stint on ER or alongside Gregory Harrison, the late Madeline Kahn, Mary...

The acclaimed HBO drama series that takes a gritty, realistic look at life behind the walls of an experimental prison within a prison.

Apr 23, 2023 · So far I have four pages including all episode numbers and names! I'll be adding some more minor characters later on but it's mostly finished. I love when the characters or names relate to Oz (like Harold Perrineau playing a prisoner in a wheelchair again on SVU). I also posted on the SVU subreddit.