{"id":46975,"date":"2025-04-02T09:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/val-kilmer-film-star-who-played-batman-and-jim-morrison-dies-at-65\/02\/04\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:57:58","slug":"val-kilmer-film-star-who-played-batman-and-jim-morrison-dies-at-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/val-kilmer-film-star-who-played-batman-and-jim-morrison-dies-at-65\/02\/04\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65"},"content":{"rendered":"

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He played the urbane, profligate gunslinger Doc Holliday in \u201cTombstone\u201d<\/a> (1993), a bloody western, alongside Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton as Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp. He was part of a robbery gang in \u201cHeat\u201d (1995), a contemporary urban \u201cHigh Noon\u201d-ish tale that was a vehicle for Robert De Niro as the mastermind of a heist and Al Pacino as the cop who chases him down. He was a co-star, billed beneath Michael Douglas, in \u201cThe Ghost and the Darkness\u201d (1996), a period piece about lion hunting set in late 19th century Africa. In \u201cPollock\u201d (2000), starring Ed Harris as the painter Jackson Pollock, he was a fellow artist, Willem de Kooning. He played Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell), in Oliver Stone\u2019s grandiose epic \u201cAlexander\u201d (2004).<\/p>\n

Throughout his career Mr. Kilmer often left an impression, with movie viewers as well as moviemakers, of unpredictability.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost actors recognize there\u2019s something different in Val than meets the eye,\u201d Mr. Stone said in a 2007 interview for a segment of the television series \u201cBiography.\u201d The playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, who directed Mr. Kilmer in the political thriller \u201cSpartan\u201d (2004), noted, \u201cWhat Val has as an actor is something that the really, really great actors have, which is they make everything sound like an improvisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the screen, he was both charismatic and curiosity-piquing, an actor who didn\u2019t let his characters give emotional clues away easily. Off the screen, he had his share of disagreements, especially early in his career, when he earned a reputation for surliness and self-involvement. A 1996 cover article about him in Entertainment Weekly was titled \u201cThe Man Hollywood Loves to Hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe offended people by being hard to understand,\u201d said Mr. Stone, one of several people who said over the years that Mr. Kilmer turned them off before turning them back on again. Robert Downey Jr., who co-starred with Mr. Kilmer in the wry 2005 murder mystery \u201cKiss Kiss Bang Bang,\u201d acknowledged in the \u201cBiography\u201d segment that he couldn\u2019t stand him when they first met, though they eventually became great friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He played the urbane, profligate gunslinger Doc Holliday in “Tombstone” (1993), a bloody western, alongside Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton