Actor, poet and musician Malcolm-Jamal Warner has passed away at the age of 54. The news broke on Monday with multiple outlets reporting that Warner had suffered a tragic accident while travelling with his family.
People report that the actor was in Costa Rica on vacation and drowned while swimming.
Warner had shot to fame in the 1980s for his portrayal of Theodore Huxtable on The Crosby Show (1984-1992). On it, Warner played Crosbyâs son having applied for the show on the final day of a national search.
He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on The Crosby Show and he would go on to feature in a number of other well-respected shows.
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He was one of the stars of Malcolm & Eddie, a sitcom than ran for four seasons from 1996 to 2000. Warner also played Sticky on Sons of Anarchy, and Al Crowlings on The People v O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, a dramatization of the O. J. Simpson trial.
However Warner will forever be best-known and most-loved for his work on The Crosby Show, a pivotal work in American television.
âWhat made it so groundbreaking was its universality,â Warner said in 2023. âNBC initially saw it as a show about an upper-middle-class Black family. Mr Cosby diligently impressed upon them that the show was about an upper-middle-class family that happened to be Black.â
âPrior to The Cosby Show, Black sitcom humor was predicated on being Black, the specificity of the âBlackâ experience. Though the Huxtables were clearly Black â reflected quite obviously by their dress, the Black art on the walls, the music â the family issues all were universal.“
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