{"id":82763,"date":"2025-07-22T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82763\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:56:08","slug":"the-cosby-shows-geoffrey-owens-laments-death-of-malcolm-jamal-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82763\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Cosby Show&#8217;s Geoffrey Owens Laments Death Of Malcolm-Jamal Warner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing the tragic death of actor <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/malcolm-jamal-warner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_malcolm-jamal-warner\" data-tag=\"malcolm-jamal-warner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malcolm-Jamal Warner<\/a>, tributes have poured in from all over Hollywood and beyond, as his loved ones and those he touched with one of his performances remember the man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWarner\u2019s breakout role was playing Theo Huxtable on NBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-cosby-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-cosby-show\" data-tag=\"the-cosby-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cosby Show<\/a>, which ran for 8 seasons from 1984 to 1992. The series followed the upper-middle-class Cosby family, with Warner starring as the only son of a doctor, Heathcliffe (Bill Cosby), and lawyer Claire (Phylicia Rashad), who also had four daughters: Sondra (Sabrina Le Beauf), Denise (Lisa Bonet), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), and the youngest, Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the show\u2019s second season, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/geoffrey-owens\/\" id=\"auto-tag_geoffrey-owens\" data-tag=\"geoffrey-owens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoffrey Owens<\/a> joined the cast as Elvin Tibideaux, love interest of the eldest Cosby daughter, Sondra, whom he would later marry. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/T8DCOSH_EC004-1.jpg\" alt=\"THE COSBY SHOW, (top row, from left): Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Geoffrey Owens, Tempestt Bledsoe, (bottom): Bill Cosby, Keshia Knight Pulliam\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"829\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tTHE COSBY SHOW, (top row, from left): Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Geoffrey Owens, Tempestt Bledsoe, (bottom): Bill Cosby, Keshia Knight Pulliam <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEverett Collection<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing Warner\u2019s death in a drowning accident on July 20, Owens remembers his friend and longtime co-star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis tragedy has almost left me speechless,\u201d Owens shared in a statement to Deadline. \u201cMalcolm was a lovely man; a sweet and sensitive soul. I respected him for many reasons, including the fact that he genuinely loved the act of creation. He had the mind of an actor and the heart of a musician. He was generous, too. I did a theater project long ago and asked him to participate; and he was there for me. My heart goes out to his family,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the tragic death of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, tributes have poured in from all over Hollywood and beyond,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,56415,55707,55746,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-82763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-geoffrey-owens","10":"tag-malcolm-jamal-warner","11":"tag-the-cosby-show","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}