Actor Val Kilmer, star ‘Batman Forever’ and ‘The Doors, died in 65

Val Kilmer, 80s and 90s blockbuster stars including “Top Gun,” “Batman Forever” and “Tombstone,” has died, according to the Associated Press. He is 65 years old.

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

Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015 and underwent tracheotomy, which made it difficult for actors.

“This is like a language or other dialect,” Kilmer Told “Good Morning America” In August 2020 about the difficulty of communicating after tracheotomy. “You have to look for ways to communicate that are no different from other acting challenges, but it is only a series of very unique circumstances.”

Kilmer, a graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division, began his career as a theater actor on the drama Off-Broadway before finding Hollywood’s fame in the early 1980s with a role in the spoof spoof “Top Secret!” and real genius teen comedy. “

Kilmer became the main star when he got the role of Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in the 1986 “Top Gun Blockbuster,” with Tom Cruise. This film produces $ 344 million in the box office, becoming one of the best -selling films in this decade.

He followed the success of the “Top Gun” with a series of roles received well throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s: as the sword of the Madmartigan sword in the film Fantasi Ron Howard “Willow;” As a stone icon Jim Morrison at Oliver Stone “The Doors;” And as Gunslinger Doc Holliday in the western drama “Tombstone,” with Kurt Russell.

In 1995, Kilmer stepped into the role of Caped Crusader, replacing Michael Keaton in “Batman Forever” by Joel Schumacher. This film is a successful box-office success but Kilmer chose not to repeat the role for the next installment.

In “Val,” Documentary Film 2021 about his life, Kilmer said he found acting in Batsuit limiting, by saying, “whatever the childhood joy that I have was destroyed by the reality of Batsuit … Yes, every boy wants to be Batman. They actually want to be him … do not have to play it in a film.”