John Aylward

Known for ActingBorn 1946-11-07Died 2022-05-16 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.Read more

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Yellowstone

The Mentalist

Scorpion

The X-Files

The West Wing

Stargate SG-1

Mad Men

American Horror Story

Fringe

From the Earth to the Moon

Family Law

Boston Legal

Carnivàle

Cold Case

ER

Northern Exposure

The Practice

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Everwood

Harry's Law

Judging Amy

Major Crimes

3rd Rock from the Sun

Jack & Bobby

North Country

Without a Trace

Nip/Tuck

Law & Order

Brothers and Sisters

Surface

Impastor

Water for Elephants

Diagnosis: Murder

The Secret Life of John Chapman

Thirteen Days

The Agency

Briarpatch

Good Morning, Miami

The Way Back

Armageddon

Alias

Path to War

House of Lies

Fairly Legal

Three Fugitives

Big Shots

Gangster Squad

Ally McBeal