Val Kilmer updates: Tributes pour in as Top Gun star dies aged 65 after years-long battle with cancer

Brian Lynch, the screenwriter behind Minions and Secret Life of Pets, wrote on Bluesky: 'The doors. Top secret! Tombstone. Top gun. Real genius. Willow. Batman forever. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Real romance. MacGruber. Heat. There was no one like Val Kilmer. May he rest in peace. '

Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian Mike Drucker placed: “Val Kilmer felt like an actor who, regardless of the material, always understood the assignment.”

Pablo Hidalgo – a Lucasfilm director – posted: 'Oh man, not Val Kilmer. His comic pork chops were great, but he had a fascinating storm under the surface. Madmartigan was an icon. '

The account for Top Gun on X placed a tribute to the actor.

Remembering Val Kilmer, whose indelible cinematic mark genres and generations spanned. Rip Iceman.

Kilmer spent his forming years in the Chatsworth district in Los Angeles. He went to Chatsworth High School in addition to the future Oscar winner Kevin Spacey and future Emmy winner Mare Winningham. At the age of 17 he was the youngest drama -student ever admitted at the Juilliard School in 1981.

Shortly after he left for Juilliard, his younger brother, 15-year-old Wesley, suffered an epileptic attack in the jacuzzi of the family and died on his way to the hospital. Wesley was an aspiring film maker when he died.

“I miss him and miss his things. I have his art on. I like to think about what he would have created. I am still inspired by him, “Kilmer told The Times.

While he was still with Juilliard, Kilmer wrote together and appeared in the piece 'How It All' and later changed a role in Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Outsiders' for the Broadway game, 'Slab Boys', alongside Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn.

Kilmer published two books from Poetry (including 'My Edens After Burns') and was nominated in 2012 for a Grammy for spoken word album for 'The Mark of Zorro'. He was also a visual artist and a lifelong Christian scientist.

He went out with Cher, married and divorced actor Joanne Whalley.

He is survived by their two children, Mercedes and Jack.

Kilmer, the youngest actor ever accepted for the prestigious Juilliard school when he was present, experienced the UPS and Downs of fame more dramatic than most.

His break came in the Spy Spoof “Top Secret!” 1984! Followed by the comedy 'Real Genius' in 1985. Kilmer would later show his comic pork chops in films such as 'MacGruber' and 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'.

His film career hit his Zenith in the early nineties when he made a name for himself as a boisterous leading man, with Kurt Russell and Bill Paxton in 1993's' Tombstone ', as Elvis' Ghost in' True Romance 'and as a bank-robing demolition expert in Michael's 1995 and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible and Rible.

The actor – who participated in the Method branch of Suzuki Arts Training – threw himself into parts. When he played Doc Holliday in 'Tombstone', he filled his bed with ice for the last scene to imitate the feeling to die from tuberculosis. To play Morrison, he always wore leather pants, asked Castmats and the crew to name him alone as Jim Morrison and shot the doors for a year.

That intensity also gave Kilmer a reputation that he was difficult to work with, something he reluctantly agreed with, but always to defend himself by emphasizing art above trade.

One of his more iconic roles – Hotshot pilot Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky opposite Tom Cruise – hardly happened. Kilmer was made by director Tony Scott for 'Top Gun', but initially ended.

“I didn't want the part. I didn't care about the movie. I didn't interest the story, “he wrote in his memoirs. He agreed after he was promised that his role would improve the first script. He would repeat the role in the continuation of the film 2022, “Top Gun: Maverick.”

One career that Nadir played in Batman in Joel Schumacher's Goofy, Garish 'Batman Forever' with Nicole Kidman and opposite Chris O'Donnell`s Robin – before George Clooney started the mantle in the mantle 'Batman & Robin' 'Batman & Robin' after Michael Keaton Darkman Darkman play 'Batman' Batman Returns. '

Janet Maslin in the New York Times said that Kilmer was 'crushed by the straight man aspects of the role', while Roger Ebert Deadpanned was that he was a 'completely acceptable' replacement for Keaton. Kilmer, who was one and done as Batman, blamed many of his achievements to the suit.

Towards the end of 'Val', the 2021 documentary about his career, Kilmer said:

I behaved badly. I bravely behaved. I have behaved bizarre for some. I do not deny this and I have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed.

In a message on Instagram, actor Josh Gad gave a tribute to Action Star Val Kilmer.

He said: “Rip Val Kilmer. Thank you for defining so many films from my youth. You were really an icon. '

He posted next to this photo:

Actor Josh Brolin called Kilmer a 'Smart, Challenge, Brave, Uber-Creative Firecracker'.

In addition to a photo of the two, he wrote on Instagram: 'You see, friend. I'm going to miss you. You were a smart, challenging, brave, uber-creative stunner. There is not much left.

'I hope to see you up there in heaven when I finally get there. Until then, great memories, beautiful thoughts. '

Fans and Hollywood shocked the news about the death of Kilmer.

His daughter Mercedes Kilmer, whom he shared with ex-wife Joanne Whalley, revealed that he passed on Tuesday from pneumonia in Los Angeles.

Apart from Mercedes, 33, he is also survived by son Jack Kilmer, 29. Kilmer was married to their mother Joanne from 1988 to 1996.

Good morning and welcome to MailOnline's reporting after Top Gun Star Val Kilmer died at the age of 65.

His daughter Mercedes Kilmer revealed that he died on Tuesday from pneumonia in Los Angeles.

Kilmer was known for his role as Iceman in the Hitfilm Top Gun in 1986 and as Batman/Bruce Wayne in the Batman of 1995 Forever. Despite his permanently damaged voice, he returned a short return to the screen in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick.

He also played famous musician Jim Morrison in the 1991 film The Doors.