Top Gun, Batman and The Dors, actor at the age of 65

Top Gun, Batman and The Dors, actor at the age of 65

Sofia Ferrera Santos

BBC News

Ian Young

Culture correspondent

Watch: A look at the roles of Val Kilmer

Actor Val Kilmer, who starred in some of the largest films in the 1980s and 1990s, including Top Gun and Batman Forever, died at the age of 65.

It also appeared in 1991 – Jim Morrison, Jim Morrison played the legendary band – as well as Western graves drama and crime drama.

Kilmer died due to pneumonia on Tuesday in Los Angeles, his daughter Mercedes told us. She said that her father had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, but later recovered.

The surgery of the trachea has influenced his voice and united his career in acting, but he returned to the screen to restore his role as a fighting pilot, alongside Tom Cruise in the Top: MAVERICK 2022.

Getty Images Val Kilmer with long hair flowing in 2011Gety pictures

“Smart, challenge, brave”

“While working with Val on Heat, I always marveled at the scope, which is the wonderful contrast in the powerful current of the Fall car and expressing it.”

“After many years of Fall’s disease, which fights the disease and preserves its soul, this is very sad news,” Man wrote on Instagram.

“See, Bal. I will miss you,” the American actor Josh Brolin wrote alongside a picture of himself and Kilmer On Instagram.

“I was smart, difficult, courageous and installed fireworks,” he added.

British actor David Theodis, who worked with Kilmer on the island of Dr. Moro in 1996, to publish: “He was one of the most unusual people I had ever met. They are proud to have described him as a friend and consumer.”

Fellow of Brett Will Kemp, who appeared in 2004 Mindhunters movie with Kilmer, books: “Many great memories of working with him. He was fun, unpredictable, very generous and gentle for me when I was very new in the job.”

actor Josh Jad published: “Rip Val Kilmer. Thank you for identifying a lot of my childhood films. I was really an icon.”

James Woods wrote: “His delivery from Doc Holiday in Tombstone was what every actor dreams of achieving. Many wonderful offers. It is sad to lose him soon.”

Paramount via Shutterstock Val Kilmer looks at the camera while wearing a flying costume on a black background while acting in Top GunParamount via Shutterstock

Val Kilmer played the man’s role in Top Gun, and returned to the 2022 movie supplement

Born in Val Edward Kilmer on December 31, 1959, Kilmer grew up in a middle -class family in Los Angeles.

His parents were Christian scholars, a movement that Kilmer adhered to the rest of his life.

He is 17 years old, and he became students at the time at the time playing at the Juliard School, in New York, one of the most important drama in the world.

His name was made in the comedy Summit! In 1984 and the real genius the following year, before he enhanced his acting reliable papers as a snowman, the enemy to the Maverick character in Cruz in the best pistol in 1986, one of the specified contract films.

Kilmer went to the starring role in Willou’s imagination and stirring up the crime killed me again – alongside British actress Joan Willie, who married her in 1988. The couple had two children.

Getty Images/Warner Bros Val Kilmer in the role of Batman in Joel Schumacher Batman forever (1995)Getty Images/Warner Bros

Kilmer played the role of Al -Sulaibi in Batman in 1995 forever

His dynamic and multi -use talents also demonstrated when he was convincingly portrayed the captain of the rock music team in the doors, 20 years after the singer’s death.

Tombstone, in which Kilmer played the role of a Gunfight Doc Holleday fighter, and Heat, in which he appeared alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, also strokes.

Cape Batman took over Michael Keaton to Batman forever in 1995, which achieved a box office success but mixed reviews, and Kilmer withdrew from the following Batman.

In 1997, he appeared in the saint as the main criminal and a master’s degree in disguise – based on the books of Leslie Chartis, which also inspired the TV program in the 1960s starring Roger Moore.

Kilmer expressed through God and Moses in the animated movie The Prince of Lyge Dr. Moro Island – but this film has become one of the most fluctuations in Hollywood.

Its manager John Frankenheimer has announced that he would not work again with Kilmer, who gained a reputation for being difficult in the group.

He said that the reputation was because “I care a lot in telling the story well.”

Getty Images Val Kilmer with one hand on his throat, standing next to the Pacino and pretending to came to camerasGety pictures

Kilmer was reunited with the star participating in the heat in 2019

Play a special gay investigator cooperated with the Robert Download Jr’s Petty in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 2005.

In 2021, Kelmer released a documentary film that narrates its highest levels and lowest levels in his life and career. Fall, who first appeared at the Cannes Film FestivalIt has 40 years of home records, including speaking with sound surgery after cancer.

He had continued to act, but his return with a hijab appearance as a snowman in completing the long -awaited upper weapon was especially influential.

Cruz said at that time: “I knew Vall for decades, and to return and play that character … He is so strong that he immediately became that character again,” Cruz said at that time.

Kelmer was also an artist, and often making paintings inspired by his cinematic roles.

“You know that he will do something interesting.”

Film critic La Rushaka Evan Zadeh told BBC Radio 4 today that his role in the doors summarized his attractiveness and personality.

She said: “There was something of darkness, disturbing, sensual, and a kind of self -destruction.”

“It meant that it was not just a beautiful Hollywood boy who led many roles. There was something else that happened below the surface.”

The American entertainment journalist Ki Ji Matthews said BBC Radio 5 Live:

“And I love the way he played the roles. He always played it in an unconventional and unpredictable way.

“When Val Kilmer was attached to a project, you knew that he would do something interesting with this character.”


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