Val Kilmer, movie star who played Batman and Jim Morrison, dies at 65

Val Kilmer, a local Hollywood actor who tasted the celebrity of the first man as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose procedural gifts and elusive personality also made him a high -level support player, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 65 years old.

The cause was pneumonia, said his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer. Mr. Kilmer received a diagnosis of throat cancer in 2014 and then recovered, she said.

Large and beautiful in a rock-star way, Mr. Kilmer was actually thrown like a rocker a handful of times at the start of his career, when he seemed intended for successful success. He made his debut in a parody of the spy film of the Slapstick Cold War, “Top secret!” (1984), in which he played as an American singer who plunged the crowd in Berlin in Berlin involuntarily involved in an oriental German plot to bring the country together.

He gave a stylized performance in a lively way as Morrison, the emblem of psychedelic sensuality, in “The Doors” by Oliver Stone (1991), and he played the role of Camée de Mentor – an Elvis who gives advice as imagined by the anti -heroic protagonist of the film, played by Christian Slater – in “True Romance” (1993) violent.

Mr. Kilmer had the best invoicing (ahead of Sam Shepard) in “Thunderheart” (1992), playing an unavored FBI agent investigating in an Indian reserve of southern Dakota, and in “The Saint” (1997), a thriller on a debonary, a resource thief playing a cat and the Russian mouse. The most famous, perhaps, between Michael Keaton and George Clooney, he lived in the title role (and the combination) in “Batman Forever” (1995), making a battle at Gotham City with Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and the Riddler (Jim Carrey), although neither Mr. Kilmer nor the film, the stellar representatives of Batman.

“The serious audience will be less interested than ever by what is under the Cape of Batman or the hood,” wrote Janet Maslin in the New York Times. “There is not much to contemplate here beyond the spectacle of Gimmicky accessories and the kitsch of good actors (who have recently done a better job elsewhere) dressed for a red-heated Halloween.”