Val Kilmer passed at 65 years young

[CG2014]

He will always be Iceman in Top Gun to me

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/02/e...l-kilmer-death

Heaven has a new wingman now

[The_Waco_Kid]

he was so convincing as Jim Morrison the surviving members of The Doors said if you didn't know better you'd swear it was Morrison.

[CG2014]

You know what?


I have never seen that The Doors movie.


I do remember him from his very first movie, Top Secret! 1984.


Made by the same team that made the Airplane!, Naked Gun and Police Squad movies.


This scene from Top Secret! 1984 was funny


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZwlMDSOvY

[TheWanderer]

Val Kilmer, who played Bruce Wayne in “Batman Forever,” channeled Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s “The Doors” and starred as a tubercular Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. His daughter Mercedes told The New York Times the cause was pneumonia. He was 65. He had been battling throat cancer for several years.

Val had it rough the last few years. Loved him in several movies.
I really liked his performance in Wonderland, playing John Holmes.
I felt like I was watching Holmes.

[LadyAnastasia]

There are few hollywood passings that make me pause, Jerry springer, Matthew Perry and now Val.

[R.M.]

[Laura Lynn]

Originally Posted by R.M.

That's my favorite Val movie, but whenever I hear his name, I always picture him as Jim Morrison in The Doors.

I didn't realize his acting career spanned almost 40years. I think I may spend Saturday night binge watching a few of his movies, starting with Real Genius.

[R.M.]

Originally Posted by Laura Lynn

That's my favorite Val movie, but whenever I hear his name, I always picture him as Jim Morrison in The Doors.

I didn't realize his acting career spanned almost 40years. I think I may spend Saturday night binge watching a few of his movies, starting with Real Genius.

Yes mam. I love it as well. My favorite part is with the bunny house shoes on.
I love The Saint too.

[ahab11]

Loved him in Top Gun and as Jim Morrison.......he was a heavy smoker and had a tracheotomy. Pneumonia with a trach sounds brutal. Glad I gave up smoking in my 20's.

RIP Val, will live in our minds as that chiseled hunk Iceman.

[mrsack]

Grew up watching his movies. I had to read it twice to believe it. Man. I didn't know Springer died as a guy said above me. He was a actually a cool cat. Heard him on the Carolla podcast.

[CG2014]

Now I need to find that The Doors movie since I never did see it.

[CG2014]

DCS (Digital Combat Simulator World) Farewell to Iceman



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj9b6VEI4z4

[Ultimate Jessica]

Originally Posted by Laura Lynn

That's my favorite Val movie, but whenever I hear his name, I always picture him as Jim Morrison in The Doors.

I didn't realize his acting career spanned almost 40years. I think I may spend Saturday night binge watching a few of his movies, starting with Real Genius.

Sounds like we need to have a movie night! ♥️

[CG2014]

The Doors 1991 did not receive a single Oscars nomination at the 1992 Academy Awards, not even for Best Actor for Val Kilmer.


https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1992/1/



That was the year Silence Of The Lambs nearly swept the Oscars.


Also I presume the Academy voters felt that the director of The Doors, Oliver Stone, already received a Best Director for JFK, which also was nominated for Best Picture along with 6 other nominations, they couldn't nominate him or another one his film in the same year.

[Lovie Luxx]

I loved him in At First Sight with Mira Sorvino. But I'll always remember him when I was a kid, in Top Gun as Iceman.

Also sad about Gene Hackman and his wife's recent passing.