Watch: Beyoncé, Tracee Ellis Ross & More React to Malcolm-Jamal Warner's DeathMore insight into Malcolm-Jamal Warner's final days have been uncovered. Two months before his tragic passing following an accidental drowning, the Cosby Show alum-who played Theodore Huxtable on the NBC sitcom-gave his final public interview, in which he got candid about how he hoped to be remembered after he died. "I will be able to leave this earth knowing and people knowing that I was a good person," Warner said of his legacy during a May 21 episode of the Hot & Bothered with Melyssa Ford podcast.