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John Aylward

John Aylward

Birthday: 1946-11-07 | Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Briarpatch

as    Freddie Laffter

2016
The Architect

as    Colin's Father

2007
The Gray Man

as    Capt. Ayers

2003
Down with Love

as    E.G.

2001
Just Visiting

as    Byron

2000
The Others

as    Albert McGonagle

1999
Swing Vote

as    Justice Benjamin 'Rip' Ripley

1999
Instinct

as    Warden Keefer

1998
Creature

as    Ben Madiera

1998
Creature

as    Ben Madiera

1998
Finding Graceland

as    Sheriff Haynes

1997
Buddy

as    Joe Bowman

1990
Child in the Night

as    Dr. Wendt

1989
Third Degree Burn

as    Lomax