John Aylward
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Aylward, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, USA
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Birthday: November 07, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 16, 2022
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Down with Love
Overview: In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-08
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The Crazies
Overview: Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Genres: Mystery Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-26
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Buddy
Overview: An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-06
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The Gray Man
Overview: In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family by himself after his wife deserted them, turns out to be a serial child molester and murderer. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-30
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Forfeit
Overview: An armored car guard's elaborate plan for revenge is threatened by his relationship with an old friend -- a brilliant and unpredictable television preacher.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-01
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Norman
Overview: A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-11
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Gangster Squad
Overview: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-09
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The Nowhere Inn
Overview: When St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, the goal is to both reveal and revel in the unadorned truth behind her on-stage persona. But when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre.
Genres: Music Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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Just Visiting
Overview: A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 12th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard. Remake of 1993 French film Les Visiteurs (The Visitors).
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-06
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Child in the Night
Overview: Traumatized after seeing his father brutally murdered by a hook wielding assailant, young Luke is tasked to help unmask the killer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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Monster-in-Law
Overview: Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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Swing Vote
Overview: A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-19
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Overview: The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-17
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The Celestine Prophecy
Overview: A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide awakening, arising within all religious traditions, that moves humanity toward a deeper experience of spirituality.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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Stamp of a Killer
Overview: A pregnant mother and her young son become the target of a killer.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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Finding Graceland
Overview: An eccentric drifter claiming to be Elvis Presley hitches a ride with a young man and they find themselves on an adventurous road trip to Memphis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-12
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
Overview: As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-22
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Instinct
Overview: In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-04
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Armageddon
Overview: When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-01
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Final August
Overview: After not seeing each other for many years, two old friends meet up and the revelation of one of their's profession comes to light, sending the night into a downward spiral.
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Original Language: en
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The Architect
Overview: When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect, who proceeds to build HIS dream house instead of theirs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-20
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Three Fugitives
Overview: On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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Water for Elephants
Overview: In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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The Secret Life of John Chapman
Overview: The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-27
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Path to War
Overview: A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-28
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Thirteen Days
Overview: The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Genres: History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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Third Degree Burn
Overview: A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-28
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The Way Back
Overview: A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-05
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Bad Company
Overview: When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Eden
Overview: Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to blossom, but finally she falls into a coma. While she is able to have some 'looking down' awareness of what is happening, her coma is what brings her husband to an understanding of the needs of others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-27
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North Country
Overview: A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-12
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