Actor Val Kilmer, star of ‘Batman Forever’ and ‘The Doors’, dies at 65 years

Val Kilmer, the star of the box office successes of the 80s and 90s, including “Top Gun”, “Batman Forever” and “Tombstone”, has died, according to Associated Press. He was 65 years old.

The actor’s daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, confirmed death, saying that she died Tuesday in Los Angeles, the AP reported.

Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015 and underwent a tracheotomy, which made it difficult to talk about the actor.

“It’s like any other language or dialect,” Kilmer He told “Good Morning America” In August 2020 about his difficulties to communicate after his tracheotomy. “You have to find a way to communicate that it is not different from any other action challenge, but it is only a unique set of circumstances.”

Kilmer, a graduate of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School, began his career as an off-broadway theater actor, before finding the fame of Hollywood in the early 1980s with papers in the parody of spies “Top Secret!” and the teenage comedy “Real Genius”.

Kilmer became a great star when he got the role of Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in the 1986 aviator box office “Top Gun”, along with Tom Cruise. The film won $ 344 million at the box office, becoming one of the highest grossing films of the decade.

The success of “Top Gun” followed with a series of well -received papers in the late 1980s and early 1990s: as Swordsman Dashing Madmartigan in the Ron Howard fantasy film “Willow”; As Rock Jim Morrison icon in “The Doors” by Oliver Stone; And as Gunslinger Doc Holliday in the western drama “Tombstone”, along with Kurt Russell.

In 1995, Kilmer entered the role of the crusader with a cape, replacing Michael Keaton in “Batman Forever” by Joel Schumacher. The film was a great box office success, but Kilmer chose not to repeat the role for the next installment.

In “Val”, the 2021 documentary about his life, Kilmer said he found acting in the bat suit, saying: “Any emotion of the childhood I had was crushed by the reality of the bat suit … Yes, each child wants to be Batman. They really want to be him … not necessarily play it in a movie.”