John Aylward
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
ActingBirthday
November 7, 1946Deathday
May 16, 2022Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
31Place of birth
Seattle, Washington, USACast credits
Down with Love
E.G.The Crazies
Mayor HobbsBuddy
Joe BowmanThe Gray Man
Capt. AyersNorman
Robert BessentGangster Squad
Judge CarterJust Visiting
ByronSwing Vote
Justice Benjamin 'Rip' RipleyTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
NilesStamp of a Killer
Finding Graceland
Sheriff HaynesA Million Ways to Die in the West
Pastor WilsonInstinct
Warden KeeferArmageddon
Dr. BanksFinal August
The ManThe Architect
Colin's FatherThree Fugitives
Second CopWater for Elephants
Mr. ErwinThe Secret Life of John Chapman
GradyPath to War
Dean Rusk, Secretary of State