Val Kilmer died in Los Angeles at the age of 65the Hollywood actor famous for numerous roles including those from The protagonist as Jim Morrison and Batman. The cause was pneumoniasaid his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, as the New York Times reports. To the actor, born in Los Angeles on 31 December 1959, had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 but was later healedas the daughter referred to.
In one of the most famous scenes of contemporary American cinema, a M16 smears and opens the way between the policemen who besiege the scene of a bank robbery. In another, in the role of Jim Morrison, he is taken away from the stage of the stage of a Doors concert. In another one, alongside Tom Cruise, for the sequel to one of the most successful blockbusters of Hollywood: Top Gun. In front of the camera there is always him, Val Kilmer, the beauty with a damned air and with a sensual charm, capable of reciting the part of the light of little alarm in the parody ‘top secret!’ as much as that of the melancholy pistoler in ‘Tombstone’. But, above all, to get naked in a documentary to tell the ordeal of the tumor that had struck him in 2014, passed after years of care and then surrendered, last night, to a trivial pneumonia.
Kilmer died at 65 in the city where he was born and to which he had linked his life and destiny Angeles. He had taken three years to admit that he had cancer, but in 2017 he had come out with an autobiographical documentary, “Val”, previewed at the Cannes Film Festival in which he told his state of health and his life without more filters.
The film debut took place in 1984 in a parody of the Cold War, “Top Secret!”, Where he played an American singer loved by the public unknowingly involved in an Eastern German conspiracy to reunite the country. Her role of singer Jim Morrison, icon of psychedelic sensuality, in ‘The Doors’ of 1991 directed by Oliver Stone, is memorable, and then descended in the shoes of Mentor, a councilor of Elvis imagined by the antiiero protagonist of the film, played by Christian Slater, in a life at the Massimò, violent adventure story about the drug written by Tony Taranino and directed by Tony Scott in the Tony Scott. 1993.
He starred alongside Sam Shepard in ‘Heart of Thunder’ (1992), playing an FBI agent, and ne ‘Il Santo’ (1997) cinematographic remake of the popular TV series on an elegant and cunning thief who plays the cat and the mouse with the Russian mafia.
Perhaps his most famous role was that of protagonist in ‘Batman Forever’ of 1995 but the turning point in his career dates back to 1986, when Tony Scott – brother of Ridley and also director who died suicidal in 2012 – chose him for his first high budget film, ‘Top Gun’ in which he was the rival of Tom Cruise, with whom he would also appear in the sequel to 2022, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ voice cloned by artificial intelligence.
In ‘Heat – The challenge’ of 1995 was part of a band of thieves with a stellar cast that included Robert De Niro and Al Pacino and starred together with Michael Douglas in ‘Spirits in the darkness’ (1996), a costume film on a lion hunt set in the late nineteenth century Africa.
In ‘Pollock’ (2000), with Ed Ed Harris in the role of the painter Jackson Pollock, he played the artist Willem de Kooning and was Filippo di Macedonia, father of Alessandro Magno (Colin Farrell), in the epic film “Alexander” (2004) by Oliver Stone.
In 2003 he played porn star John Holmes in the film ‘Wonderland’ and a year later he starred in David Mamet’s ‘Spartan’. The playwright and screenwriter who directed him in the political thriller said of him that he had ‘something that the great actors have: he makes everything seemed improvised’.