John Aylward

Acting

Born November 7, 1946, 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.

Filmography

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