Acting credits
75
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
John Aylward
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 32Series: 43Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 103833
IMDb ID: nm0043891
Known for: Acting
Born: November 7, 1946
Died: May 16, 2022
Age: 75
Place of birth: Seattle, Washington, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1976 - 2021
Years active: 46
Average TMDB rating: 6.92
Wikidata: Q1847082
Other jobs
Director (1)
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with John Aylward.
as Uncle Pete
The Nowhere Inn
2021 • Movie
as Father Edward Devine
The Way Back
2020 • Movie
as Colin's Father
The Architect
2016 • Movie
as Pastor Wilson
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014 • Movie
as Judge Carter
Gangster Squad
2013 • Movie
as Mr. Erwin
Water for Elephants
2011 • Movie
as Robert Bessent
Norman
2010 • Movie
as Mayor Hobbs
The Crazies
2010 • Movie
as Clay Covington
Crimes of the Past
2009 • Movie
as Capt. Ayers
The Gray Man
2007 • Movie
as Dobson
The Celestine Prophecy
2006 • Movie
as Priest (uncredited)
Monster-in-Law
2005 • Movie
as Judge Halsted
North Country
2005 • Movie
as Dean Rusk
Path to War
2003 • Movie
as E.G.
Down with Love
2003 • Movie
as Officer Ferren
Bad Company
2002 • Movie
as Byron
Just Visiting
2001 • Movie
as Orville Dryfoos
Thirteen Days
2000 • Movie
as Warden Keefer
Instinct
1999 • Movie
as Justice Benjamin 'Rip' Ripley
Swing Vote
1999 • Movie
as Dick McGuire
Can't Stop Dancing
1999 • Movie
as Sheriff Haynes
Finding Graceland
1998 • Movie
as Dr. Banks
Armageddon
1998 • Movie
as Dr. Bryson
Eden
1998 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with John Aylward.
as Freddie Laffter • 10 eps
Briarpatch
2020 • Series
as Father Bob • 2 eps
Yellowstone
2018 • Series
as Bishop Perkins • 2 eps
Impastor
2015 • Series
as Uncle Tobin • 1 eps
Scorpion
2014 • Series
as Ted King Sr. • 1 eps
Major Crimes
2012 • Series
as K. Warren McDale • 3 eps
House of Lies
2012 • Series
as Father Malachi • 1 eps
American Horror Story
2011 • Series
as Sam Childs • 1 eps
Fairly Legal
2011 • Series
1 eps
Harry's Law
2011 • Series
as Professor Stutzer • 1 eps
The Mentalist
2008 • Series
as Dr. Owen Frank • 1 eps
Fringe
2008 • Series
as Larry Cooper • 1 eps
Big Shots
2007 • Series
as Geoffrey Atherton • 2 eps
Mad Men
2007 • Series
as Joe Rawling • 3 eps
Brothers and Sisters
2006 • Series
as Government Panel Suit • 1 eps
Surface
2005 • Series
as Tom Orchard • 1 eps
Boston Legal
2004 • Series
as Victor Sable • 1 eps
Jack & Bobby
2004 • Series
as Norman Campbell • 1 eps
Cold Case
2003 • Series
as Bishop McNaughton • 2 eps
Carnivàle
2003 • Series
as Father Malley • 1 eps
Nip/Tuck
2003 • Series
as Bernard Fields • 1 eps
Without a Trace
2002 • Series
as Mr. Fowler • 1 eps
Good Morning, Miami
2002 • Series
as Walter Cunningham • 1 eps
Everwood
2002 • Series
as Jeffrey Davenport • 2 eps
Alias
2001 • Series