John Aylward
John Aylward is 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.Filmography
- The Secret Life of John Chapman - Grady
- Stamp of a Killer -
- Seven Hours to Judgment - Taxi Driver
- Three Fugitives - Second Cop
- Third Degree Burn - Lomax
- Child in the Night - Dr. Wendt
- With a Vengeance - Lesonsky
- Northern Exposure - Charles 'Red' Murphy
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III - Niles
- Eden - Dr. Bryson
- 3rd Rock from the Sun - Registrar
- Ink -
- The Escape - Sheriff
- Grace Under Fire - Ralph
- Buddy - Mr. Joe Bowman
- The Victim -
- From the Earth to the Moon - Dr. Pemberton
- Creature - Ben Madiera
- Armageddon - Dr. Banks
- Finding Graceland - Sheriff Haynes
- Can't Stop Dancing - Dick McGuire
- Swing Vote - Justice Benjamin 'Rip' Ripley
- Instinct - Warden Keefer
- L.A. Sheriff's Homicide - Sheriff
- Any Day Now -
- Secret Agent Man - Dr. Phil Etherington
- The Others - Albert McGonagle
- Thirteen Days - Orvil Dryfoos
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Search for the Journal
- Diagnosis Murder - Capt. Woodruff
- Just Visiting - Byron
- Family Law - Judge Lester Burger
- Harvey's Speech - Burton
- Ally McBeal - Mr. Cobb
- Dharma & Greg - Kenneth Kincaid
- Bad Company - Officer Ferren
- The X Files - Dr. John Rietz
- Path to War - Dean Rusk, Secretary of State
- Everwood - Walter Cunningham
- The Practice - Center Panelist in Rydell Hearing
- One Night In Paris - Condom Salesman
- Down with Love - E.G.
- Judging Amy - Father Jack Monroe
- Good Morning, Miami - Mr. Fowler
- The D.A. - Mayor Edwards
- Nip/Tuck - Father Maley
- Jack & Bobby - Victor Sable
- Carnivàle - Bishop McNaughton
- Monster-in-Law - Priest
- North Country - Judge Halsted
- Surface -
- Law & Order - Reverend Harlan Dwyer
- Boston Legal - Tom Orchard
- Stargate SG-1 - President Nadal
- The Celestine Prophecy - Dobson
- Alias - Jeffrey Davenport
- The West Wing - Barry Goodwin
- Cold Case - Norman Van Horn
- Without a Trace - Bernard Fields
- Forfeit -
- ER - Dr. Donald Anspaugh
- Wisteria: The Story of Albert Fish - Captain Ayers
- The Spy and the Sparrow - Clay Covington
- Legally Mad - Warren Belson
- The Crazies - Mayor Hobbs
- Mad Men - Geoffrey Atherton
- The Whole Truth - Judge
- Fringe - Dr. Owen Frank
- House of Lies - K. Warren McDale
- - Father Malachi
- Gangster Squad - Judge Carter
- Major Crimes - Ted Knight Sr.
- A Million Ways to Die in the West - Pastor Wilson
- Scorpion
- Shameless - Grandpa Bill
- Briarpatch - Freddie Laffter