John Aylward
Acting • Born 1946-11-07 – 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.
Filmography
77 credits
Down with Love
Movie • 2003
E.G.
The Crazies
Movie • 2010
Mayor Hobbs
Buddy
Movie • 1997
Joe Bowman
The Gray Man
Movie • 2007
Capt. Ayers
Forfeit
Movie • 2007
Norman
Movie • 2010
Robert Bessent
Gangster Squad
Movie • 2013
Judge Carter
The Nowhere Inn
Movie • 2021
Uncle Pete
Just Visiting
Movie • 2001
Byron
Child in the Night
Movie • 1990
Dr. Wendt
Monster-in-Law
Movie • 2005
Priest (uncredited)
Swing Vote
Movie • 1999
Justice Benjamin 'Rip' Ripley
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Movie • 1993
Niles
The Celestine Prophecy
Movie • 2006
Dobson
Stamp of a Killer
Movie • 1987
Finding Graceland
Movie • 1998
Sheriff Haynes
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Movie • 2014
Pastor Wilson
Instinct
Movie • 1999
Warden Keefer
Armageddon
Movie • 1998
Dr. Banks
Final August
Movie
The Man
The Architect
Movie • 2016
Colin's Father
Three Fugitives
Movie • 1989
Second Cop
Water for Elephants
Movie • 2011
Mr. Erwin
The Secret Life of John Chapman
Movie • 1976
Grady
Path to War
Movie • 2003
Dean Rusk
Thirteen Days
Movie • 2000
Orville Dryfoos
Third Degree Burn
Movie • 1989
Lomax
The Way Back
Movie • 2020
Father Edward Devine
Bad Company
Movie • 2002
Officer Ferren
Eden
Movie • 1998
Dr. Bryson
North Country
Movie • 2005
Judge Halsted
Can't Stop Dancing
Movie • 1999
Dick McGuire
Crimes of the Past
Movie • 2009
Clay Covington
Carnivàle
TV • 2003
Bishop McNaughton
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Dr. Paul Anton
Ally McBeal
TV • 1997
Owen Cobb
Judging Amy
TV • 1999
Father Jack Monroe
Alias
TV • 2001
Jeffrey Davenport
The Others
TV • 2000
Albert McGonagle
Cold Case
TV • 2003
Norman Campbell
Everwood
TV • 2002
Walter Cunningham
Nip/Tuck
TV • 2003
Father Malley
Dharma & Greg
TV • 1997
Kevin Kincaid
Surface
TV • 2005
Government Panel Suit
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Captain Woodruff
The Practice
TV • 1997
Center Panelist in Rydell Hearing
The X-Files
TV • 1993
Dr. John Rietz
Stargate SG-1
TV • 1997
President Nadal
The Mentalist
TV • 2008
Professor Stutzer
ER
TV • 1994
Donald Anspaugh
Boston Legal
TV • 2004
Tom Orchard
Family Law
TV • 1999
Judge Lester Burger
American Horror Story
TV • 2011
Father Malachi
Major Crimes
TV • 2012
Ted King Sr.
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Barry Goodwin
From the Earth to the Moon
TV • 1998
Dr. Ray Pemberton
Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006
Joe Rawling
The Practice
TV • 1997
Federal Judge Kendall Marcott
The Practice
TV • 1997
Chief District Court Judge
Jack & Bobby
TV • 2004
Victor Sable
Impastor
TV • 2015
Bishop Perkins
Scorpion
TV • 2014
Uncle Tobin
Fringe
TV • 2008
Dr. Owen Frank
Briarpatch
TV • 2020
Freddie Laffter
Creature
TV • 1998
Ben Madiera
House of Lies
TV • 2012
K. Warren McDale
Yellowstone
TV • 2018
Father Bob
3rd Rock from the Sun
TV • 1996
Registrar
3rd Rock from the Sun
TV • 1996
Chancellor
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Harlan Dwyer
Mad Men
TV • 2007
Geoffrey Atherton
Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Bernard Fields
Good Morning, Miami
TV • 2002
Mr. Fowler
Northern Exposure
TV • 1990
Charles 'Red' Murphy
Harry's Law
TV • 2011
Big Shots
TV • 2007
Larry Cooper
The Agency
TV • 2001
Senator Davies