Val Kilmer, who was born in California and trained by Juilliard, played in films, including the leading role Top weapon, The doorsPresent Tombstone And Batman forever And acquired a call as Hollywood Bad Boy, has died, reported the New York Times. He was 65.
The cause of death was pneumonia, said the paper and quoted his daughter Mercedes Kilmer.
Kilmer was one of the most prominent leading men from Hollywood in the nineties before numerous goods with directors and co-stars and a series of flops. Over the years, Kilmer gained a call as a perfectionist who was spirited, intense and sometimes selfish.
“If certain people criticize me to be asked, I think this is a cover for something you have not done well. I think you are trying to protect yourself,” Kilmer told the Orange County Register Orange 2003.
“I think I am challenging, not demanding, and I’m not apologizing for it.”
He gave his film debut with the 1984 spy parody with the leading role Top secret! Before he appears in the silly comedy Real genius 1985.
Kilmer closed fame as Tom Cruises co-star in 1986 Top weaponMarineflieger Tom (Iceman) played Kazansky and appeared decades later in the continuation of 2022 again at Cruise Top gun: Maverick.
Kilmer played in director Ron Howard’s Fantasy film from 1988 from 1988 pasture And married his British co-star Joanne Whalley, with whom he had two children before he was divorced.
One of his most challenging roles was the film by director Oliver Stones 1991 in 1991The Doors, In which he played Jim Morrison, the charismatic and ultimately doomed singer of the influential rock band The Doors.
To persuade stone to fill him, Kilmer put together an eight -minute video that says and looked like Morrison in various places in his life. Kilmer’s own voice is used in the film.
The doors initiated in the highest years of his career. In the Western 1993 TombstoneHe played Old West Gunfighter Doc Holliday.
He had two commercial success in 1995 and was with Al Pacino and Robert de Niro in the crime thriller drama heat and successor from Michael Keaton as a caped crusader in Batman foreverThe third episode of the Batman series.
The loud, bloated and sophisticated Batman forever Was weltered by critics and Kilmer was gripped by the co-stars Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey. Kilmer pulled out of the next Batman film.
Director Joel Schumacher described Kilmer “the psychologically disturbed person I have ever worked with”.
