Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for playing Bill Cosby's son on the hit NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, has died at the age of 54, in an accidental drowning while on holiday with his family in Central America.

Mr. Warner, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s character on the beloved 1980s sitcom, drowned in Costa Rica.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, an actor and artist who rose to fame as a child as Theodore Huxtable on “ The Cosby Show ,” has died. He was 54.