William "Willy" Brandt is a fictional character at HBO drama Oz

Oz (TV series)

Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes . It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by premium cable network HBO. Oz premiered on July 12, 1997 and ran for six seasons...

. Willy Brandt is played by Matthew Cowles

Matthew Cowles

-Personal life:The son of actor and theatre producer Chandler Cowles, he was born in New York City.Since 1983 he has been married to actress Christine Baranski with whom he has two daughters, Isabel and Lily...

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Character Overview

Prisoner 96B339, William "Willy" Brandt.

Although staying at Oz since 1996, Brandt only appears in the sixth and final season where he plays a big part in some of the regular characters' storylines. He is involved in a conspiracy regarding the death of Wilson Loewen

Wilson Loewen

Wilson Loewen is a fictional character at HBO's drama Oz played by Tom Atkins.-Character Overview:Mayor Wilson Loewen was a politician who helped Governor James Devlin get elected. He was arrested after the police discovered he was involved with two murders of Black-Americans girls in 1963 during...

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Season 6

Willy Brandt was an inmate who was at the infirmary during mayor Wilson Loewen's time at Oz. At Unit J, Loewen gets food stuck on his throat and is sent to the hospital. There, Loewen blackmails Governor James Devlin

Governor James Devlin

Governor James Devlin is a fictional character on the HBO drama Oz, played by Željko Ivanek.-Character overview:Devlin, the governor of the state, is hated by most of the inmates and some of the staff members at the Oswald State Correctional facilities as he proposes several anti-prisoner acts of...

. Afraid that Loewen starts talking about his crimes, Devlin orders his assistant, Perry Loftus

Perry Loftus

Perry Loftus is a fictional character at HBO drama Oz played by Christopher Neal Jackson.-Character Overview:An intelligent African American young man, Perry Loftus studied with Oz's CO Adrian Johnson. After getting out of the University, Loftus became Governor James Devlin's assistant.-Season...

 to find someone to kill Loewen. Loftus finds his college friend, CO Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson, played by Cyrus Farmer, is one of the African American corrections officer on the HBO drama Oz.-Character overview:He first appears as one of the several African American corrections officers to work in Emerald City under the management of Martin Querns...

 working in Oz and hires him to kill Loewen. Johnson pays two inmates Lionel Kelsch and Willy Brandt to kill Loewen. During the night, while Loewen is sleeping, Kelsch starts screaming, causing distraction. So, Brandt enters in Loewen's bedroom and slices his throat. Some time after, Brandt is interrogated by Leo Glynn and talks about Officer Johnson. Brandt is put at Unit J and Glynn talks to Perry Loftus. Afraid that Glynn will discover the truth about Loewen's death, Loftus asks Johnson to kill Brandt and Glynn. In the next morning, Brandt is dead. Glynn asks Alvin Yood

Alvin Yood

Alvin Yood is a character at HBO drama Oz played by Tom Ligon.-Character Overview:Prisoner 01Y218. Convicted January 20, 2001 for aggravated assault of a minor. Sentence of 12 years, up for parole in seven....

if he saw someone. Yood says he did, but is not going to tell who was, or he will be killed.