From People
The actor was in Costa Rica on a family vacation and drowned while swimming, a source confirms to PEOPLE.
A rep for Warner did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
The actor played the only son of Bill Cosby's character, Heathcliff Huxtable, in [The Cosby Show] from 1984 to 1992.
He and Eddie Griffin led the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie from 1996 to 2000, and Warner was also well known for his role as Alex Reed on Reed Between the Lines, which he starred in alongside Tracee Ellis Ross from 2011 to 2015.
More recently, Warner had starred in Major Crimes as Chuck Cooper, as Julius Rowe in Suits and as AJ Austin in The Resident.
9-1-1 and Alert: Missing Persons Unit were his most recent credits.
Warner is survived by a wife and daughter, whose identities he opted to keep private.
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He was also an accomplished musician. This is heartbreaking.
this death impacted me far more than i realized i shed a tear :(
Oh wow he's one of the good guys. Cosby out living the old cast. LOLO
OMG so sad. Gotta go watch some Cosby reruns for the culture. Respect and RIP King.
Goodness. RIP and condolences to everyone who loved him.
RIP brother, thank you for the laughs.
MJW would've turned 55 next month 8/18-a day before Matthew Perry's- who also died in water @ age 54-b-day 8/19. This is quite eerie. Both shows will be hard to watch from here on out.
Rest Peacefully MJW.
I was just watching the clip of him and Naomi Campbell from the Cosby Show yesterday. Also the one where Theo wanted to grow up to be "regular people" and not go to college. That show was great and he was great in it. RIP.
😢❤️❤️❤️
Oh Theo. It feels like you took my childhood with you.
Wow! Brother was a positive representation of a black male in the industry.
He was also a good spoken word artist.
So sad. R.i.p.
A positive brother in an industry full of vermin and scum. You will be remembered.
Theo 😥
RIP. This is not the news I wanted to hear today. So sad.
He left an incredible legacy behind and was the epitome of a brotha with class and grace. I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it. And how ironic Bill Cosby outlived both of his only sons - real and fictional. Rest peacefully, King.
RIP KING!!💔🕊🕊. I'll definitely check his wife!! COSTA RICA!!
Theo... my heart is aching.
💔
2:42 same
Broken hearted.
RIP to all who loved him
This is utterly heartbreaking. I have so many memories with my family watching The Cosby Show and some of the other shows that he had been on over the years. May the lord grand his family comfort. I know that they could not have expected this to happen on their vacation. May he rest in peace.
Rest in paradise, I remember Malcolm before he was a star playing with 2 of his other little friends, he grew up in the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles, his mother hung in there taking him to the auditions and it paid off, have a peaceful journey….
This happen in a 3rd WORLD COUNTRY
Was his new SECRET wife Costa Rican
Small Latin Countries like this are vey CORRUPT and anything and anyone can be bought paid for to make this look like an accident
This hurts. Why couldn’t it have been the one riding gold cars thru the air instead of a beautiful brotherman going for a swim?
Your IGNORANCE is Showing, 4:59 (1). No one refers to Under developed countries as 3RD WORLD Except You. Get a Grip.
RIP Malcom & Thank You for such wonderful childhood memories onscreen.
@5:11 No comment about looking deeper into what happened. That was my main point,
This is an extremely corrupt tiny country, he kept his new wife secret.Something is up, this whole thing feels wrong
RIP Malcom. I don't know him personally but he seemed like a good man.
Such a loss. Interesting with Costa Rica though
He valued his personal privacy.
@5:18 The only thing that feels wrong is you. Ocean rip tides happen without warning.
I understand what you were implying, but it was your word choice that I found offensive,5:18.
8:10 is right. This appears to be an accident because ocean water is mighty dangerous especially if one in it is caught off guard like it appears Mal Jam had been. It's tragic no matter how one views it. MJW was still too young at 54 to lose his life in such a way.
I just heard it may have been a private pool. Not sure why there's more than 1 version of this.
Why do ppl look for conspiracy theories? It was an accident from rip tides. Its just that simple
@2:07 same! 😢
What's crazy is...I just learned yesterday that he had a podcast...reflected on some memories just to hear this news this morning.
Were you there 11:31? If not politely STFU.
Stay out of the water.
However he left here, he's gone.
It happened at sea, not a pool.
For much of its History Costa Rica is rumored to be known as the place you go to vanish, to simply disappear, as well as the place some one, takes you - if they want you - to dissapear, unfortunate accidents à la mode.
It is notorious for mysterious deaths, fake doctors, & fake death certificates.
Google vanished in Costa Rica, the google hits go on for an eternity, it becomes a gigantic dark winding black hole of mysterious stories
Cue - the James Bond Music, Bohdan Koziy, a Nazi war criminal was discovered in Costa Rica in 1982, regardless of numerous attempts of extradition he was sheilded by the murky legal waters of Costs Rica.
The town of the unfortunate incident being discussed here had no emergency services hospital. Its, rural, costal, and mountainous.
The beach at Playa Grande de Cocles is noted on travel blogs as having dangerous rip tides and high waves. Sharks and crocodiles may also come near shore. As a result, they strongly discourage swimming in the ocean at Playa Grande or Cabuyal.
Insider tips from small travel blogs say ask the locales about the beach conditions and what areas to aviod swimming.
Certain spots have history over the decades known only by those that were raised and grew up on the beach to have lighting quick rip tides,and powerful under currents, where you could be snatched under and vanish.
Literally from waving and smiling to disappearing in a split second, never to be see again -There is that word again vanish.
The Indigenous Bribi people who have lived and survived off the ocean for generations call the ocean a deity.
A god called Sibu. According Bribi Myths sometimes Sibu will return the body to shore of a gentle soul, for loved one's to remember, via traditional ceremony.
The Bribi people would say Malcoms life
was honorable thus his body was returned to be Celebrated.
Hollywood Child Stars when grown up often live lives tortured by trauma. Malcom was the exception, in learning so he adapted safety mechanisms to protect his peace. As such he never disclosed the name of his wife or only child. All that is know is he had a sensitive and vulnerable heart and searched and found love off the beaten path - far outside - of the trappings of the industry.
Getting, accurrate investigative reports, medical reports, police reports for insurance purposes, burial purposes, in this tiny, rural, mountainous, costal town with no ambulance or emmergency hospital, and a mayberry police department is going to be a nightmare. add on Costa Ricas reputation for corruption.
Getting the Body back to America & Settlement, Insurance, Estate & Will issues for a death across international waters in Costa Rica between his family & his wife is going to be very messey & all over the press. It appears his wife is of Latin origin possibly from the region.
^Here somebody goes with foolishness.^
12:16 you weren't there either conspiracy theorists with no proof of your babbling. I read the news not christal balls. Now you take your nutty ideas to he[[.
What awful dreadful shocking news. There are no words … words completely fail me on this one.
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