Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 7, 1946
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
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 - Movies
Armageddon
as Dr. Banks
A Million Ways to Die in the West
as Pastor Wilson
Gangster Squad
as Judge Carter
Monster-in-Law
as Priest (uncredited)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
as Niles
Bad Company
as Officer Ferren
The Crazies
as Mayor Hobbs
North Country
as Judge Halsted
Path to War
as Dean Rusk
The Way Back
as Father Edward Devine
Known For - TV Shows
Law & Order
as Harlan Dwyer
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Dr. Paul Anton
The Mentalist
as Professor Stutzer
The X-Files
as Dr. John Rietz
Stargate SG-1
as President Nadal
Yellowstone
as Father Bob
The West Wing
as Barry Goodwin
Fringe
as Dr. Owen Frank
American Horror Story
as Father Malachi
ER
as Donald Anspaugh