Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 07, 1946
Died
May 16, 2022
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
Credits
76 titles
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Aylward, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Nowhere Inn
Uncle Pete
The Way Back
Father Edward Devine
Briarpatch
Freddie Laffter
Yellowstone
Father Bob
The Architect
Colin's Father
Impastor
Bishop Perkins
Scorpion
Uncle Tobin
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Pastor Wilson
Gangster Squad
Judge Carter
Major Crimes
Ted King Sr.
House of Lies
K. Warren McDale
American Horror Story
Father Malachi
Water for Elephants
Mr. Erwin
Fairly Legal
Sam Childs
Harry's Law
Norman
Robert Bessent
The Crazies
Mayor Hobbs
Crimes of the Past
Clay Covington
The Mentalist
Professor Stutzer
Fringe
Dr. Owen Frank
Big Shots
Larry Cooper
The Gray Man
Capt. Ayers
Mad Men
Geoffrey Atherton
Forfeit
Brothers and Sisters
Joe Rawling
The Celestine Prophecy
Dobson
Surface
Government Panel Suit
Monster-in-Law
Priest (uncredited)
North Country
Judge Halsted
Boston Legal
Tom Orchard
Jack & Bobby
Victor Sable
Path to War
Dean Rusk
Cold Case
Norman Campbell
Carnivàle
Bishop McNaughton
Nip/Tuck
Father Malley
Down with Love
E.G.
Without a Trace
Bernard Fields
Good Morning, Miami
Mr. Fowler
Everwood
Walter Cunningham
Bad Company
Officer Ferren
Alias
Jeffrey Davenport
The Agency
Senator Davies
Just Visiting
Byron
Thirteen Days
Orville Dryfoos
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dr. Paul Anton
Secret Agent Man
Dr. Phil Etherington
The Others
Albert McGonagle
The West Wing
Barry Goodwin
Family Law
Judge Lester Burger
Judging Amy
Father Jack Monroe