John Aylward
Known For
Acting
Born
1946-11-07 in Seattle, Washington, USA
Died
2022-05-16
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.
Most Known For
Law & Order
as Harlan Dwyer
The X-Files
as Dr. John Rietz
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Dr. Paul Anton
Stargate SG-1
as President Nadal
The Mentalist
as Professor Stutzer
Yellowstone
as Father Bob
American Horror Story
as Father Malachi
The West Wing
as Barry Goodwin
Everwood
as Walter Cunningham
Fringe
as Dr. Owen Frank
Scorpion
as Uncle Tobin
Mad Men
as Geoffrey Atherton
ER
as Donald Anspaugh
Cold Case
as Norman Campbell
Diagnosis: Murder
as Captain Woodruff
The Practice
as Center Panelist in Rydell Hearing
The Practice
as Federal Judge Kendall Marcott
The Practice
as Chief District Court Judge
Boston Legal
as Tom Orchard
3rd Rock from the Sun
as Registrar