Cosby Show actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies aged 54 in Costa Rica drowning

Actor and musician Malcolm-Jamal Warner has died aged 54 (Danny Moloshok/PA)

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died aged 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said.

Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department said that Warner drowned on Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.