Vernon Schillinger is a fictional character played by American actor J. K. Simmons on the HBO series Oz as a major antagonist. Schillinger is the head of the The Aryan Brotherhood in Oz. He is an ardent racist, and is serving an eight-year sentence for beating a black drug dealer with a crowbar. The dealer was selling drugs to his sons. Schillinger indulges in varying degrees of sexual sadism, especially toward fellow inmate Tobias Beecher, whom he rapes to "initiate" him into prison life. In addition to Beecher, Schillinger commits several acts of rape over the series against weaker white inmates, while ironically maintaining a hatred for...read more