While I was their TV dad, I never stopped being a father to them,” Cosby told his spokesperson of his onscreen children, including Warner who played Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby

In the wake of Malcolm-Jamal Warner's sudden death at age 54, Bill Cosby shared a personal tribute to the actor who portrayed his son, Theo Huxtable, on the long-running NBC sitcom “The Cosby Show.” Warner died Sunday after an accidental drowning while swimming off the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica during a family vacation.