Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner has died suddenly. He was 54. TMZ reports the Cosby Show star died in a drowning accident, though the outlet provided no further details. PEOPLE confirmed the passing, reporting the actor was “on a family vacation and drowned while swimming.

For Black youth and teens growing up in the mid-1980s, “The Cosby Show” offered something rarely seen on television up until that time.

Mr. Warner, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s character on the beloved 1980s sitcom, drowned in Costa Rica.