Actor, who was treating a throat cancer a few years ago, died last Tuesday, April 1, a victim of pneumonia
Val Kilmerknown for roles as Bruce Wayne in Batman forever (1995) and Jim Morrison in The Doors (1991), died at age 65 last Tuesday, April 1, in Los Angeles, California (USA).
To the The New York Timesthe actor’s daughter, Mercedes Kilmerrevealed that the cause of death was pneumonia. In 2014, the actor had been diagnosed with throat cancer, but was recovering, according to his heiress.
The last work of Val Kilmer in theaters went back to the skin of Tom Kazansky, the Icemanin Top Gun: Mavericklaunched in 2022. Following Top Gun: Indomitable Asees (1986), it is now the Admiral Kazanskywho spent his career to his navy taking care of the rebel Maverick (Tom Cruise), and is close to the end of his life due to an unspecified disease.
In the story, he is in charge of bringing his companion from the aviation school back to the top Gun, but this time as an instructor of a class of professionals, on a mission that can end his chances of returning home.
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