Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, however whose protean presents and elusive persona additionally made him a high-profile supporting participant, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 65.
The trigger was pneumonia, stated his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer. Mr. Kilmer was identified with throat most cancers in 2014 and later recovered, she stated.
Tall and good-looking in a rock-star form of manner, Mr. Kilmer was in reality solid as a rocker a handful of instances early in his profession, when he appeared destined for blockbuster success. He made his function debut in a slapstick Chilly Conflict spy-movie spoof, “Prime Secret!” (1984), wherein he starred as a crowd-pleasing, hip-shaking American singer in Berlin unwittingly concerned in an East German plot to reunify the nation.
He gave a vividly stylized efficiency as Morrison, the logo of psychedelic sensuality, in Oliver Stone’s “The Doorways” (1991), and he performed the cameo position of Mentor — an advice-giving Elvis as imagined by the movie’s antiheroic protagonist, performed by Christian Slater — in “True Romance” (1993), a violent drug-chase caper written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.
Mr. Kilmer had prime billing (forward of Sam Shepard) in “Thunderheart” (1992), taking part in an unseasoned F.B.I. agent investigating a homicide on a South Dakota Indian reservation, and in “The Saint” (1997), a thriller a couple of debonair, resourceful thief taking part in cat-and-mouse with the Russian mob. Most famously, maybe, between Michael Keaton and George Clooney he inhabited the title position (and the batsuit) in “Batman Perpetually” (1995), doing battle in Gotham Metropolis with Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and the Riddler (Jim Carrey), although neither Mr. Kilmer nor the movie have been seen as stellar representatives of the Batman franchise.
