Cast & creator
John Aylward
Best known for The Mentalist, Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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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film credits
46
television credits
79
1976–2021 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (80)
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The Mentalist
Professor Stutzer
2008
Law & Order
Harlan Dwyer
1990
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dr. Paul Anton
2000
American Horror Story
Father Malachi
2011
The X-Files
Dr. John Rietz
1993
The West Wing
Barry Goodwin
1999
Stargate SG-1
President Nadal
1997
Yellowstone
Father Bob
2018
Diagnosis: Murder
Captain Woodruff
1993
Fringe
Dr. Owen Frank
2008
Mad Men
Geoffrey Atherton
2007
Without a Trace
Bernard Fields
2002
Nip/Tuck
Father Malley
2003
ER
Donald Anspaugh
1994
The Practice
Rydell Hearing Panelist
1997The Practice
Federal Judge Kendall Marcott
1997The Practice
Chief District Court Judge
1997
Scorpion
Uncle Tobin
2014
Cold Case
Norman Campbell
2003
Boston Legal
Tom Orchard
2004
Judging Amy
Father Jack Monroe
1999
3rd Rock from the Sun
Registrar
19963rd Rock from the Sun
Chancellor
1996
Everwood
Walter Cunningham
2002
Brothers and Sisters
Joe Rawling
2006
Major Crimes
Ted King Sr.
2012
Northern Exposure
Charles 'Red' Murphy
1990
Family Law
Judge Lester Burger
1999
Ally McBeal
Owen Cobb
1997
House of Lies
K. Warren McDale
2012
Harry's Law
2011
The Agency
Senator Davies
2001
Dharma & Greg
Kevin Kincaid
1997
From the Earth to the Moon
Dr. Ray Pemberton
1998
Carnivàle
Bishop McNaughton
2003
Fairly Legal
Sam Childs
2011
Surface
Government Panel Suit
2005
Jack & Bobby
Victor Sable
2004
Alias
Jeffrey Davenport
2001
Good Morning, Miami
Mr. Fowler
2002
Armageddon
Dr. Banks
1998
Gangster Squad
Judge Carter
2013
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Pastor Wilson
2014
The Way Back
Father Edward Devine
2020
Big Shots
Larry Cooper
2007
The Crazies
Mayor Hobbs
2010
Impastor
Bishop Perkins
2015
Secret Agent Man
Dr. Phil Etherington
2000
Monster-in-Law
Priest (uncredited)
2005
North Country
Judge Halsted
2005
Down with Love
E.G.
2003
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Niles
1993
Thirteen Days
Orville Dryfoos
2000
Water for Elephants
Mr. Erwin
2011
Creature
Ben Madiera
1998
Three Fugitives
Second Cop
1989
Bad Company
Officer Ferren
2002
The Others
Albert McGonagle
2000
Just Visiting
Byron
2001
Briarpatch
Freddie Laffter
2020
Instinct
Warden Keefer
1999
The Celestine Prophecy
Dobson
2006
Buddy
Joe Bowman
1997
Path to War
Dean Rusk
2003
Child in the Night
Dr. Wendt
1990
The Nowhere Inn
Uncle Pete
2021
Finding Graceland
Sheriff Haynes
1998
The Gray Man
Capt. Ayers
2007
Eden
Dr. Bryson
1998
Can't Stop Dancing
Dick McGuire
1999
Swing Vote
Justice Benjamin 'Rip' Ripley
1999
Stamp of a Killer
1987
The Secret Life of John Chapman
Grady
1976
Crimes of the Past
Clay Covington
2009
The Architect
Colin's Father
2016
Norman
Robert Bessent
2010
Third Degree Burn
Lomax
1989
Final August
The Man
Final August
Director