John Aylward
Actor
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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As Director
Filmography
Armageddon
as Dr. Banks 1998
A Million Ways to Die in the West
as Pastor Wilson 2014
Gangster Squad
as Judge Carter 2013
Water for Elephants
as Mr. Erwin 2011
The Crazies
as Mayor Hobbs 2010
Monster-in-Law
as Priest (uncredited) 2005
The Way Back
as Father Edward Devine 2020
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
as Niles 1993
Bad Company
as Officer Ferren 2002
Thirteen Days
as Orville Dryfoos 2000
Down with Love
as E.G. 2003
North Country
as Judge Halsted 2005
Just Visiting
as Byron 2001
Instinct
as Warden Keefer 1999
Three Fugitives
as Second Cop 1989
The Celestine Prophecy
as Dobson 2006
Buddy
as Joe Bowman 1997