Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ Actor, Dies at 54 in Costa Rica Drowning – ryan

San Jose, Costa Rica-Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Who As Teenage Son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” Was Central to A Cultural Phenomenon That Helped Define the 1980s, died at 54 in an Accidental Drowning in Costa Rica, Authorities there Said Monday.

Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department Said Warner Drown Sunday AFTHNOON ON A Beach on Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast. He was swimming at playa cocles in lemons province wen a Current Pulled deeper into the ocean.

“He was rescueed by People on the Beach,” The Department of Initial Report Said, but First Responders from Costa Rice’s Red Cross Found Him 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’s Cliff Huxtable About Money, and another episode to HIDE HIS EAR PIERCING FROM HIS DAD. Hiso was the Only Son Among Four Daughters in the Hoodsehold of Cliff Hixtable and Phylicia Rasad’s Clair Huxtable on the nbc sitcom, and he would be one of the premiums of American Teenage Boyhood on a Show. Much of Its Run From 1984 to 1992.

He played the role for Eight Seasons, appearing in each of the show’s 197 episodes and earning 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 Designer Shirt. Denise, played by Lisa Bonet. The “Gordon Gartrell” Shirt Later Became A Memeable Image: Anthony Mackie Wore One on “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon and the Profile Picture on Warner’s Instagram Shows A Toddler Sporting One.

NBA HALL OF FAMER Magic Johnson was Among Those Giving tribute Monday. Johnson Said on x that he and his wife are sad to hear of the Death of their Friend.

“We were be bot super fans of the hit ‘Cosby Show’ and Continue to follow HIS CAREER ON LIKE ‘MALCOLM AND EDDIE’ and ‘The Resident,’ Johnson Said. “Every time I ran into Malcolm, we would have deep and fun conversations about basketball, Life, and Business. He will be missed.”

Like the rest of the “Cosby Show” Cast, Warner Had to Contest With The Sexual assault allegations Against Its Titular Star, Whose Conviction in A Pennsylvania Court was late overturned.

Warner Told the Associated Press in 2015 that the Show’s Legacy was “Tarnished.”

“My Biggest Concern is when it is comes to the images of People on television and film,” Warner Said. “We’ve Always Had ‘The Cosby Show’ to Hold Up Against That. And the Fact That We No Longer Have That, That The Thing That Saddens with the Most Becauses in A Few Been Just a Fairy Tale.”

Representatives for Cosby Declined Immediate Comment.

Warner workhed steadily as an actor for More than 40 Years. HIS First Major post- “cosby” role came on the sitcom “Malcolm & Eddie,” Co-Starring with COMEDIAN Eddie Griffin in the Popular Series on the Defunct Upn Network from 1996 to 2000.

“My Heart is Heavy right now,” Griffin Said on Instagram Monday. “Rest Easy My Brother for You Have in Life and Now You Have Won Forever Eternal Bliss ..”

In the 2010s, he stays Opposite Tracee Ellis Ross as a family-Blending Couple for Two Seasons on the Bet Sitcom “Read Between the Lines.” He Also Had A Role As Oj Simpson’s Friend Al Cowlings on “American Crime Story” and was a series regular on Fox’s “The Resident.”

“FIRST I MATTER YOU AS THEO WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD THEN YOU WERE MY FIRST TV HUSBAND,” ROSS SAID ON Instagram. “My Heart is so so sad. What an actor and friend you were: Warm, Gentle, Present, Kind, Thought, Deep, Funny, Elegant.”

Warner’s movie roles included the 2008 Rom-Com “Fool’s Gold” with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. A poet and a Musician, Warner Was a Grammy Winner, For the traditional r & b performance, and was nominated for the best spoken word poetry for “Hiding in plain view.”

Warner Also Workhed As A Director, Helming Episodes of “Malcolm & Eddie,” “Read Between The Lines,” “Kenan & Kel,” and “All that.”

Warner Was Born in 1970 in Jersey City, New Jersey. His Mother, Pamela Warner, Reportedly Named Him after Malcolm X and Jazz Pianist Ahmad Jamal. She served as his manager one cros he began pursuing acting at age 9.

In the Early 1980s, he made guest on the TV Shows “Matt Houston” – His First Credit – and “Fame.”

Warner Was 13 come he landed the role of theo in an audition after a broad for the right child.

Cosby was a Major Star at the time, and the show was Certain to be widly seen, but few could’ve predicited the huge, yearslong phenomenon it would be Become.

He was Married with a Young Daughter, but chose to publicly disclose their names. Warner’s Representatives Declined Immediate Comment on His Death.

HIS FINAL CREDITS CAME IN TV GUEST ROES, INCLUDING APPEANCANCES ON “The Wonder Years,” “Grown -i,” and “9-1-1,” where he had a four-episode arc Last.

“I GREW up with a maniacal obsession with not going to be one of the those ‘Where are they are know Kids,’” Warner Told the AP in 2015. About Having a Life after ‘Cosby.’ ”