Anthony James Lilliman

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Bishop Anthony James Lilliman is a fictional character from the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta. In the film, he is played by John Standing.

Lilliman was the chaplain at the Larkhill Detention Center and was suppose to monitor "rules and rights" violations. However, his £200,000 a month payment kept him silent while Commander Lewis Prothero and others worked on the St. Mary's virus, which the fascist government, Norsefire, used to kill thousands of people. Along with Prothero, he is particularly cruel to the prisoner in room V, who later destroys Larkhill and escapes.

A few years after the destruction of Larkhill and St. Mary's Outbreak, Lilliman becomes Bishop of London, possibly installed into this position by Chancellor Sutler. Lilliman secretly molests underage girls on Sunday evening after mass. It is hinted that a special sex agency provides these young girls for Lilliman's enjoyment.

The escaped prisoner, now a masked vigilante calling himself "V," has his accomplice Evey Hammond play Lilliman's girl for "Children's Hour at the Abbey". Evey tells Lilliman everything, hoping she will get some kind of amnesty. However, Lilliman thinks it is part of a sex game and while he tries to rape her, Evey smashes him on the head with a book (in the film she kicks him in the crotch), prompting Lilliman to chase after her. At this point, V enters and Evey flees. V then engages in a lengthy theological debate with Lilliman which is interrupted by an unsuccessful attempt at rescue by Lilliman's valet. V then forces Lilliman to swallow a poisoned communion wafer.

In the film, his fate was changed. Lilliman grabs a gun from a hollowed Bible, but misses V, who then tortures him to death. Earmen in a nearby surveillance van hear Lilliman's screams of pain; however, by the time Chief Inspector Eric Finch and Dominic Stone arrive, Lilliman is dead.