{"id":13704,"date":"2025-04-01T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13704"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:08:55","slug":"val-kilmer-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/01\/val-kilmer-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Kilmer Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/val-kilmer-dead-batman-forever-tombstone-1236354606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Variety<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"section-heading\">Val Kilmer, Star of \u2018Batman Forever,\u2019 \u2018Tombstone,\u2019 Dies at 65<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/author\/pat-saperstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pat Saperstein<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Val Kilmer Dead at 65\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/crPABDEUJWU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/val-kilmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Val Kilmer<\/a>, who played Bruce Wayne in \u201cBatman Forever,\u201d channeled Jim Morrison in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/oliver-stone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oliver Stone<\/a>\u2018s \u201cThe Doors\u201d and starred as a tubercular Doc Holliday in \u201cTombstone,\u201d died Tuesday in Los Angeles. His daughter Mercedes told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/01\/movies\/val-kilmer-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0the cause was pneumonia. He was 65. He had been battling throat cancer for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kilmer\u2019s reps did not immediately respond to&nbsp;<em>Variety<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The baby-faced blonde actor had a solid run as a leading man with a volatile reputation in the \u201980s and \u201990s, starring in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/top-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top Gun<\/a>,\u201d \u201cReal Genius,\u201d \u201cWillow,\u201d \u201cHeat,\u201d and \u201cThe Saint.\u201d He returned briefly to screens in 2022\u2019s \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d although he could no longer speak due to his cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/val-kilmer-dead-batman-forever-tombstone-1236354606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Variety<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Variety Val Kilmer, Star of \u2018Batman Forever,\u2019 \u2018Tombstone,\u2019 Dies at 65 By\u00a0Pat Saperstein Val Kilmer, who played Bruce Wayne in \u201cBatman Forever,\u201d channeled Jim Morrison in\u00a0Oliver Stone\u2018s \u201cThe Doors\u201d and starred as a tubercular Doc Holliday in \u201cTombstone,\u201d died Tuesday in Los Angeles. His daughter Mercedes told\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0the cause was pneumonia. 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