Val Kilmer, who appeared in some of the most popular films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Top Gun and Batman Forever, died at 65. He also acted in the 1991 film The Doors, playing Jim Morrison, the iconic band’s vocalist, as well as the Western Tombstone and the crime drama Heat.
Kilmer’s daughter Mercedes told US media that he died of pneumonia in Los Angeles on Tuesday. She explained that her father was afflicted with throat cancer in 2014 but later recovered. Tracheotomy surgery damaged his voice and cut short his acting career, but he returned to the screen in 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, playing fighter pilot Iceman with Tom Cruise.
Heat director Michael Mann praised the character, saying, “While working with Val on Heat, I was always amazed at the range, the brilliant variability within the powerful current of Val’s possessing and expressing character.”
After so many years of Val fighting disease and maintaining his spirit, this is heartbreaking news,” Mann posted on Instagram. Actor Josh Gad wrote, “RIP Val Kilmer. Thank you for identifying so many films from my childhood. You were an icon. See you, pal. “I’m going to miss you,” US actor Josh Brolin posted on Instagram, beside a photo of himself and Kilmer.
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