The actor took only one turn in the famous batsuit. That film, “Batman Forever,” couldn’t be a more representative artifact ...

W hen Val Kilmer was a teenager, performing in high-school plays and making amateur movies with his younger brother, Marlon ...

Kilmer’s film career ranged from slapstick comedy to some of the most memorable films of the 1980s and ’90s. Val Kilmer, who died at 65 on Tuesday, donned Batman’s cape, starred as a gunslinger, flew ...

A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he ...

who wrote a profile of Val Kilmer for The New York Times Magazine in May 2020. “He was sure he was going to come back to his exact former self. ” The two met for an interview just as a ...

Val Kilmer, an actor known for his work in “Top Gun,” “The Doors” and “Batman Forever,” died on Tuesday at the age of 65.

Val Kilmer, an actor best known for his leading roles in "The Doors", "Top Gun", "Tombstone" and "Batman Forever" died on ...

Even his choice of parts could be eccentric. In the end, he’s best thought of as a character actor trapped in a leading man’s ...

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Celebrities shared their tributes to Val Kilmer, the ‘Batman’ actor who died of pneumonia at the age of 65 on April 1 ...