Val Kilmer, best known for playing Bruce Wayne in Batman Forever and Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone‘s The Doors, has died. He was 65.
The cause of death was pneumonia, his daughter confirmed to The New York Times, which first reported the news.
Kilmer had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, which he recovered from, she added. In 2021, a documentary titled Val, that followed his life, career, and his health issues, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews.
The Independent has written to representatives for Kilmer for a comment.
Kilmer was one of Hollywood’s biggest actors in the 1990s before spats with directors and co-stars and a series of flops dented his career. Over the years, Kilmer gained a reputation as temperamental, intense, perfectionistic and sometimes egotistical.
“When certain people criticize me for being demanding, I think that’s a cover for something they didn’t do well. I think they’re trying to protect themselves,” Kilmer told the Orange County Register newspaper in 2003.
“I believe I’m challenging, not demanding, and I make no apologies for that.”
