Jonathan Farwell was born on January 9, 1932,[3] in Lansing, Michigan, to Arthur Farwell, a composer, and Gertrude Everts Brice, an actress. He served in the United States Air Force.[3] He attended Ithaca College and briefly pursued postgraduate studies at Yale University.[3] He married actress Joerle Anne Gaines (professionally known as Jo Farwell) on July 23, 1955. They had two children together: Alison Beatrice Farwell (b. 1958) and Elisabeth Evelyn Farwell (b. 1961).[3] They separated in 1977, but were never divorced.
Farwell is perhaps best-known for the role of George Rawlins on the daytime CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless (TV series).[4]
While working on location in a production of Shadowlands in 1994, Jonathan Farwell's first wife died of breast cancer. He met his next wife, Deb Note,[3][5] in a production of The King and I in which they both appeared. They married onstage after a Sunday matinee in 1994.[6] Deb Note-Farwell died from cancer in 2018.[3]
Farwell died from complications of a hip fracture at a hospice in Fort Collins, Colorado, on November 22, 2025, at the age of 93.[3]
