John Aylward

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJohn Aylward (born November 7, 1946) 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. Josephs Grade school and went on to Prep High School, but graduated from Garfield High School in 1965. He graduated from the Professional Actors Training Program at the University of Washington in 1970. He was one of the founders, in 1973, of Seattles 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.

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