‘Cosby Show’ Star Malcolm-Jamal Warner Dies by Drowning at 54

‘Cosby Show’ Star Malcolm-Jamal Warner Dies by Drowning at 54
Actor and recording artist Malcolm-Jamal Warner poses at the BAFTA Los Angeles TV Tea in Los Angeles on Sept. 19, 2015. Danny Moloshok/Reuters
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LOS ANGELES/SAN JOSE—American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Bill Cosby’s son Theo on the 1980s groundbreaking television hit “The Cosby Show,” died at age 54 on Monday by drowning, a law enforcement source confirmed to Reuters.

Warner was vacationing in Costa Rica with his family, media reported. The Central American nation’s judicial investigation department (OIJ) confirmed that a U.S. citizen with the last name Warner had drowned after being pulled out to sea by a rip current.