
Cosby Show actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning
Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department said on Monday that Warner drowned on Sunday afternoon.
He was on holiday with his family and had been swimming in the Caribbean at Playa Cocles in Limon province when he was pulled out to sea by a rip current.
'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 television 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 he tries to hide from his dad.
His Theo was the only son among four daughters in the household of Cliff and Clair Huxtable, played by Phylicia Rashad, 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.
Warner played the role for eight seasons in all 197 episodes, winning an Emmy nomination for supporting actor in a comedy in 1986.
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