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John Aylward
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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 regu…
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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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The Nowhere Inn
as Uncle Pete
The Way Back
as Father Edward Devine
The Architect
as Colin's Father
A Million Ways to Die in the West
as Pastor Wilson
Gangster Squad
as Judge Carter
Water for Elephants
as Mr. Erwin
Norman
as Robert Bessent
The Crazies
as Mayor Hobbs
Crimes of the Past
as Clay Covington
The Gray Man
as Capt. Ayers
No Poster
Forfeit
The Celestine Prophecy
as Dobson
Monster-in-Law
as Priest (uncredited)
North Country
as Judge Halsted
Path to War
as Dean Rusk
Down with Love
as E.G.
Bad Company
as Officer Ferren
Just Visiting
as Byron
Thirteen Days
as Orville Dryfoos
Instinct
as Warden Keefer
Swing Vote
as Justice Benjamin 'Rip' Ripley
Can't Stop Dancing
as Dick McGuire
Finding Graceland
as Sheriff Haynes
Armageddon
as Dr. Banks
Eden
as Dr. Bryson
Buddy
as Joe Bowman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
as Niles
Child in the Night
as Dr. Wendt
Third Degree Burn
as Lomax
Three Fugitives
as Second Cop
Stamp of a Killer
The Secret Life of John Chapman
as Grady
Final August
as The Man