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Actor Val Kilmer, star of 'Top Gun' and 'Batman Forever', dies at 65, NYT reports

April 2, 2025 7:15 pm

[Source: Reuters]

Val Kilmer, who starred in films such as “Top Gun,” “The Doors,” and “Batman Forever” while earning a reputation as a Hollywood bad boy, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 65.

The cause of death was pneumonia, the paper said, citing his daughter Mercedes Kilmer.

The California-born, Juilliard-trained actor was one of Hollywood’s most prominent leading men in the 1990s before numerous spats with directors and co-stars and a series of flops dented his career.

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Over the years, Kilmer gained a reputation as temperamental, intense, perfectionistic and sometimes egotistical.

 

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