John Aylward
Biography
John Aylward (November 7, 1946 – May 16, 2022) was an American actor.
He is perhaps best known for playing the former DNC chairman Barry Goodwin on the NBC television series The West Wing and for playing Dr. Donald Anspaugh on the NBC television series ER. He also supplied his voice for Dr. Arne Magnusson in Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
Aylward was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He attended St. Joseph's Grade school and went on to Prep High School, but graduated from Garfield High School in 1965. He graduated from the Professional Actor's Training Program at the University of Washington in 1970. He was one of the founders, in 1973, of Seattle's Empty Space Theatre, and he worked regularly as a company member of the Seattle Repertory Theatre for 15 years until he became a television and film actor in the 1990s. Carol Flynt, co-producer of ER, first offered him an audition after seeing him in a 1996 production of "Psychopathia Sexualis" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
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Full filmography
- Law & Order (1990) as Harlan Dwyer
- The Mentalist (2008) as Professor Stutzer
- Yellowstone (2018) as Father Bob
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) as Dr. Paul Anton
- Stargate SG-1 (1997) as President Nadal
- The X-Files (1993) as Dr. John Rietz
- American Horror Story (2011) as Father Malachi
- ER (1994) as Donald Anspaugh
- Everwood (2002) as Walter Cunningham
- Fringe (2008) as Dr. Owen Frank
- The West Wing (1999) as Barry Goodwin
- Without a Trace (2002) as Bernard Fields
- Mad Men (2007) as Geoffrey Atherton
- Cold Case (2003) as Norman Campbell
- Diagnosis: Murder (1993) as Captain Woodruff
- The Practice (1997) as Center Panelist in Rydell Hearing
- The Practice (1997) as Federal Judge Kendall Marcott
- The Practice (1997) as Chief District Court Judge
- Boston Legal (2004) as Tom Orchard
- Scorpion (2014) as Uncle Tobin
- Judging Amy (1999) as Father Jack Monroe
- Nip/Tuck (2003) as Father Malley
- Major Crimes (2012) as Ted King Sr.
- Brothers and Sisters (2006) as Joe Rawling