Born in Los Angeles, the charismatic actor Val Kilmer, with Rock Star air performed roots of Roquero on several occasions at the beginning of his career and according to international media, He died on Tuesday, April 1.
According to him New York TimesKilmer debuted in the cinema with a humorous parody of spies of the cold war Top Secret! (1984), where he played an American singer who pleased the public in Berlin, involved without knowing it in a plot of East Germany to reunify the country.
His role as singer Jim Morrison, icon of psychedelic sensuality, was memorable in The Doors (1991) by director Oliver Stone, and got into the skin of mentor – a advisor imagined by the antihero protagonist of the film, played by Christian Slater – in Thrue romance (1993), a violent adventure story about drugs written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.
Starred with Sam Shepard Thunderheart (1992), playing an FBI agent, and in The Saint (1997) was an elegant and cunning thief who plays cat and mouse with the Russian mafia.
Maybe His most famous role with Michael Keaton and George Clooney, was the main role in Batman Forever (1995).
But by then, another facet of Kilmer’s career had already developed. In 1986, Tony Scott chose him for his first large -budget film, Top Gun (1986), a drama of adventures about Marina’s hunting pilots in training, in which he was the rival of the star of the film, Tom Cruise, with whom he would also participate in his sequel in 2022, Top Gun: Maverick.
He played the urban and wasteful gunman Doc Holliday in Tombstone (1993), a bloody western, along with Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton.
Was part of a band of thieves in Heat (1995) with a star cast that included Robert De Niro and Pacino and was a co -star, along with Michael Douglas, in The ghost and darkness (1996), a period film about the lions hunt set in Africa in the late nineteenth century.
In Pollock (2000), starring Ed Harris as the painter Jackson Pollock, played his artist colleague, Kooning Willem. Also to Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell), in the great epic of Oliver Stone Alexander (2004).
In 2003 he embodied the porn star John Holmes in the film Wonderlandand a year later he rolled, again under the orders of Oliver Stone, the war-Historic film Alexander the Great, where he gave life to Philip II of Macedonia. That same year the political thriller also starred Spartan.
“Most actors recognize that Val has something different from what is seen with the naked eye,” Stone said in a 2007 interview for a television series segment Biographyhe cut The New York Times.
David Mamet, the playwright and screenwriter who directed Kilmer in the political thriller Spartan (2004), he added: “Val has something that the great actors have: it makes everything look improvised.”
What Val Kilmer died
American actor Val Kilmer, who died on Tuesday, April 1 at 65, will be remembered as the pilot Icemanrival of Tom Cruise in the blockbuster Top Gunbut it was an interpreter who put on the skin of many other characters, from Batman To singer Jim Morrison, through the elegant holy thief or King Philip, father of Alexander the Great.
As reported by his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, to the New York newspaper, The actor was diagnosed with throat cancer In 2014 And he could recover, but He died on Tuesday, April 1 as a result of pneumonia.
Kilmer took time to recognize – he did not until 2017 – he suffered from cancer, but stopped denying that disease with an autobiographical documentary, Valwhich premiered at the Cannes Festival and in which he offered unpublished access to his state of health and intimacy.