Cosby Show actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies aged 54 in Costa Rica drowning
Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department said that Warner drowned on Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast.
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner died in an accidental drowning (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
He was swimming at Playa Cocles in Limon province 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.
Warner created many TV moments etched in the memories of Generation X children and their parents, including a pilot episode argument with Bill Cosby's Cliff Huxtable about money and an ear piercing that he tries to hide from his dad.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner was pulled from the water by bystanders, but first responders were unable to find vital signs (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Theo was the only son among four daughters in the household of Cliff and Phylicia Rashad's Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom, and he would be one of the prime representations of American teenage boyhood on a show that was the most popular in America for much of its run from 1984 to 1992.
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He played the role for eight seasons in all 197 episodes, winning an Emmy nomination for supporting actor in a comedy in 1986.
For many, the lasting image of the character, and of Warner, is of him wearing a badly botched mock designer shirt sewn by his sister Denise, played by Lisa Bonet.
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