Cosby Show star Malcolm Jamal Warner dies in accidental death at age 54
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for playing Bill Cosby’s son on the hit NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, has died at the age of 54 in an accidental drowning while on holiday with his family in Central America.
The Associated Press reported Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department said Warner drowned Sunday while he was swimming at Playa Grande de Cocles in Limon province, on the Caribbean coast, when a current pulled him deeper into the ocean.
“He was rescued by people on the beach,” the department’s initial report said, but first responders from Costa Rica’s Red Cross found him without vital signs and he was taken to the morgue.
CBC News reached out to a representative for confirmation. Persona PR, an international media and communications firm, said it would not be providing any statements at this time.
Warner played Theodore (Theo) Huxtable, the only son of Cliff and Claire Huxtable (played by Cosby and Phylicia Rashad), on The Cosby Show throughout its run between 1984 and 1992.
