{"id":11565,"date":"2025-07-21T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11565\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:34:09","slug":"malcolm-jamal-warner-star-of-the-cosby-show-dies-aged-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11565\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm-Jamal Warner, star of The Cosby Show, dies aged 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Malcolm-Jamal Warner, an actor best known for his role as Theodore Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Warner, who was 54, drowned on Sunday while on vacation in Costa Rica, US media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Costa Rica&#8217;s Judicial Investigation Agency confirmed the death to CBS News, the BBC&#8217;s US partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Warner appeared to have been dragged out to sea by a current while swimming at Playa Grande about 14:00-14:30 local time in Cocles, a town in the province of Lim\u00f3n, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Warner played the son of Bill Cosby in the US sitcom from 1984-1992.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;The victim was assisted by people who were at the beach. However, he was declared without vital signs by the staff of the Costa Rican Red Cross,&#8221; authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malcolm-Jamal Warner, an actor best known for his role as Theodore Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-11565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}