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Val Kilmer, film star who played Batman and Jim Morrison, dies at 65

02 April 2025 09:30 (UTC +04:00)

Val Kilmer, a movie star in the 1980s and ‘90s who played everything from Batman to Doc Holliday, died on Tuesday, according to his daughter Mercedes Kilmer, who released a statement to the New York Times and the Associated Press, APA reports.

He was 65. The cause of death was pneumonia, Mercedes Kilmer told the media outlets.

Kilmer’s acting career was rooted in the theater. Born and raised in California’s San Fernando Valley, he studied at the Hollywood Professional School before heading to New York where, at 21, he became the youngest student at the time to be accepted into Julliard School’s drama department.

He began his film career in the 1984 comedy “Top Secret!” and acted in several movies throughout the ‘80s including his breakout role in 1986’s “Top Gun.” Kilmer starred in a long streak of successful genre-spanning movies in the 1990s: Superhero films like 1995’s “Batman Forever” in which he played the Dark Knight, and memorable turns in Westerns as Doc Holliday in 1993’s “Tombstone,” biopics as Jim Morrison in 1991’s “The Doors” and in crime films as a bank robber in Michael Mann’s 1995 masterpiece, “Heat.”

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