Malcolm-Jamal Warner, one of the stars of the Cosby Show, died at the age of 54
The actor known for the role of Theo Huxable in the cult sitcom of the 1980s died tragically in Costa Rica.
The family Cosby is in mourning. Malcolm-Jamal Warnerwho played for eight seasons Theodore “Theo” Huxtable, died at the age of 54. According to ABC News, the actor was on vacation at Costa Rica and drowned at sea after being taken by a strong current. Local police found his body and identified it this Sunday.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner embodied the only son of the character of Bill Cosby In the Cosby Show, the successful Sitcom of NBC broadcast in France on M6 from 1988. The series humorously told the daily life of an easy African-American family in Brooklyn whose father was a doctor and the lawyer.
Theo Theo was freely inspired by the real son of Bill Cosby, Ennis, who was murdered in 1997, a few years after the end of the show. The two young men had become friends, and according to a spokesperson for Cosby the announcement of the death of Warner “him”recalled the phone call he had received when his son died“.
“I really enjoyed worked with him. He always knew his text, he knew what he had to do“Said Bill Cosby in ABC, stressing the link he had kept with him.”Malcolm calls me regularly. I was their television dad, but I never stopped being a father for them“.
Bill Cosby was accused of sexual assault by many women and sentenced in 2018, but was innocent after spending three years in prison.
In addition to the role of Theo, for which he received an appointment to the Emmy Awards, Malcolm-Jamal Warner subsequently illustrated in other series like Community, Sons of Anarchy, Suits and especially the medical show The Resident where he played Dr. AJ Austin for six seasons (photo above).
In 2015, he was also rewarded with a Grammy Award for his poem dedicated to the victims of the Sandy Hook school in the resumption of the “Jesus Children of America” by Stevie Wonder, alongside Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway.
