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"Oh-oh, excuse me if I'm interrupting tea time! I'll just step out until you've finished, if that's more convenient!" ―Arne Magnusson John Aylward was the voice actor for Arne Magnusson in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Primarily a TV actor, he was best known for his role as Dr. Donald Anspaugh in the television series ER. Biography Aylward was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He attended St. Josheph's Grade school and went on to Prep High School, but transferred and graduated from Garfield High School in 1965. He graduated from the Professional Actor's Training Program at the University of Washington in 1970. In 1973 he was one of the founders 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. He was first offered an audition for ER after he was seen by one of the co-creators in a 1996 production of Psychopathia Sexualis at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Aylward died on Monday May 16th at his home in Seattle of natural causes after a long illness, he was 75 years old.