Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for playing Theodore "Theo" Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died. He was 54. TMZ first broke the news, reporting his death occurred in Costa Rica and was an apparent drowning. Per AP, Costa Rican officials said he was swimming at Playa Cocles in Limon when the current pulled him deeper into the ocean.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner's body will soon return to Los Angeles after his body was released to his family following the completion of an autopsy … TMZ has learned. A source with direct knowledge tells us the actor had been in Costa Rica with his daughter for a home-schooling program.

"The Cosby Show’s" embattled patriarch, Bill Cosby, shared that the untimely death of his co-star, Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Theo Huxtable), reminded him of his own late son’s death, according to a TMZ report.