The cause of death was pneumonia, the paper said, citing his daughter Mercedes Kilmer.
“When certain people criticise me for being demanding, I think that is a cover for something they did not do well. I think they are trying to protect themselves.
He made his film debut starring in the spy spoof Top Secret! (1984) before appearing in the goofy comedy Real Genius (1985). He rocketed to stardom as Tom Cruise’s co-star in the smash 1986 hit Top Gun, playing naval aviator Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, and decades later appeared alongside Cruise again in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick.
One of his most challenging roles came in director Oliver Stone’s The Doors (1991), in which he played Jim Morrison, the charismatic and ultimately doomed lead singer of the influential rock band The Doors.
The Doors ushered in the highest-profile years of his career. In the 1993 Tombstone, he played Old West gunfighter Doc Holliday. He had two commercial successes in 1995, co-starring with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the crime drama Heat and succeeding Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader in Batman Forever, the third instalment in the Batman series.
Things only got worse for Kilmer when he clashed with co-star Marlon Brando during the notoriously troubled production of The Island of Dr. Moreau, which flopped in 1996.
“I will never climb Mt. Everest and I will never work with Kilmer again. There is not enough money in the world,” John Frankenheimer, who directed the movie, said.
He was also nominated multiple times for worst actor in the annual Razzie awards honoring the worst in cinema.
Kilmer also starred in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) with Michael Douglas, The Saint (1997) with Elisabeth Shue, At First Sight (1999) with Mira Sorvino, Red Planet (2000), The Salton Sea (2002), director Stone’s Alexander (2004) and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) with Robert Downey Jr.
Born in Los Angeles on Dec. 31, 1959, Kilmer began acting in high school and became the youngest student accepted into the drama division of the famed Juilliard School in New York.
Phillip Noyce, who directed him in The Saint, told the Chicago Sun-Times in 1997 Kilmer “is plagued by a bad image, but most of it is unjustified. The real Kilmer is a lamb. And he is the hardest-working actor I’ve ever seen.”
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