John Aylward
Born
7 November 1946 (79)
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
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...
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Aylward, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (33)
The Nowhere Inn
2021
The Way Back
2020
The Architect
2016
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Gangster Squad
2013
Water for Elephants
2011
Norman
2010
The Crazies
2010
Crimes of the Past
2009
The Gray Man
2007
Forfeit
2007
The Celestine Prophecy
2006
Monster-in-Law
2005
North Country
2005
Path to War
2003
Down with Love
2003
Bad Company
2002
Just Visiting
2001
Thirteen Days
2000
Instinct
1999
Swing Vote
1999
Can't Stop Dancing
1999
Finding Graceland
1998
Armageddon
1998
Eden
1998
Buddy
1997
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
1993
Child in the Night
1990
Third Degree Burn
1989
Three Fugitives
1989
Stamp of a Killer
1987
The Secret Life of John Chapman
1976
Final August