Jonathan Farwell, Unfulfilled Understudy for Yul Brynner on ‘The King and I,’ Dies at 93

Jonathan Farwell, who appeared on soap operas, on Broadway and on regional stages for six decades but never got a chance to go on for Yul Brynner in The King and I despite serving as his understudy for hundreds of shows, has died. He was 93.

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Farwell died Saturday from complications of a broken hip at a hospice facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, The Denver Gazettereported…

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