04/02/2025
Breaking: Val Kilmer dies: Celebrated Hollywood actor and star of Batman, Top Gun films dead at 65
His daughter Mercedes Kilmer revealed the star died from pneumonia.
Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 but recovered from that illness.
Tall and handsome in a rock-star sort of way, Mr. Kilmer was in fact cast as a rocker a handful of times early in his career, when he seemed destined for blockbuster success. He made his feature debut in a slapstick Cold War spy-movie spoof, “Top Secret!” (1984), in which he starred as a crowd-pleasing, hip-shaking American singer in Berlin unwittingly involved in an East German plot to reunify the country.
