Val Kilmer

Born: 1959-12-31 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Died: 2025-04-01

Known For: Acting

Biography

Val Edward Kilmer (December 31, 1959 – April 1, 2025) was an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! (1984), then the cult classic Real Genius (1985), as well as blockbuster action films, including a role in Top Gun and a lead role in Willow. During the 1990s, Kilmer gained critical respect after a series of films that were also commercially successful, including his roles as Jim Morrison in The Doors, Doc Holliday in 1993's Tombstone, Batman in 1995's Batman Forever, Chris Shiherlis in 1995's Heat, and Simon Templar in 1997's The Saint. During the early 2000s, Kilmer appeared in several well-received roles, including The Salton Sea, Spartan, and supporting performances in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Alexander, and as the voice of KITT in Knight Rider.

Filmography

2023

Willow: Behind the Magic as Self / Madmartigan (archive footage) (uncredited)

2022

Top Gun: Maverick as Adm. Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky

2021

Val as Self
The Choe Show as Self
The Birthday Cake as Uncle Angelo
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
A Soldier's Revenge as CJ

2020

Paydirt as Sheriff Tucker

2019

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot as Bluntman
1st Born as Biden

2018

The Super as Walter

2017

The Snowman as Rafto
Song to Song as Duane

2016

Cinema Twain as Mark Twain
Animals

2014

The Spoils of Babylon as General Cauliffe
Palo Alto as Stewart
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn as Mark Twain

2013

Planes as Bravo (voice)
Standing Up as Hofstadder
Twixt: A Documentary as Self
Riddle as Sheriff Richards

2012

Breathless as Dale
7 Below as McCormick
Wyatt Earp's Revenge as Wyatt Earp
The Roadie
Deep in the Heart as The Bearded Man
The Fourth Dimension as Val Kilmer (segment "The Lotus Community Workshop")
The Lotus Community Workshop as Val Kilmer

2011

Kill the Irishman as Joe Manditski
5 Days of War as Dutchman
Twixt as Hall Baltimore
Blood Out as Arturo

2010

MacGruber as Cunth
Gun as Angel
The Traveler as Mr. Nobody / Drifter
Bloodworth as Warren Bloodworth
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans as Himself

2009

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans as Stevie Pruit
The Thaw as Dr. David Kruipen
Streets of Blood as Detective Andy Devereaux
American Cowslip as Todd Inglebrink
Double Identity as Dr. Nicholas Pinter
Hardwired as Virgil Kirkhill
The Steam Experiment as Jimmy

2008

Knight Rider as KITT (voice)
Knight Rider as K.I.T.T. (voice)
XIII as La Mangouste
The Love Guru as Val Kilmer (uncredited)
Comanche Moon as Inish Scull
Felon as John Smith
Mon Clown as Self
Conspiracy as MacPherson
Delgo as Bogardus (voice)
Columbus Day as John Cologne
2:22 as Maz
American Meth as Narrator
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight as Self
Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family as Narrator (voice)

2007

Have Dreams, Will Travel as Henderson

2006

Psych as Detective Dobson
Déjà Vu as Paul Pryzwarra
10th & Wolf as Murtha
Moscow Zero as Andrey
Played as Dillon
Dead Man's Bounty as The Wanted Man
The Ten Commandments: The Musical as Moses

2005

Numb3rs as Mason Lancer
The Reichen Show as Self
Nigella as Self
The Showbiz Show with David Spade
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as Gay Perry
Trudell as Self - Actor, Friend
Champion as Self
The Making of 'Heat' as Self

2004

Entourage as The Sherpa
Alexander as Philip
Mindhunters as Jake Harris
Spartan as Scott
George and the Dragon as El Cabillo (uncredited)
Stateside as Staff Sergeant Skeer
Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun as Self
Bounty Hunters as Himself

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
The Missing as Lt. Jim Ducharme
Wonderland as John Holmes
Blind Horizon as Frank Kavanaugh
Masked and Anonymous as Animal Wrangler
The Seventh Man as Self - Narrator (voice)

2002

V Graham Norton as Self
The Salton Sea as Tom Van Allen | Danny Parker
Hard Cash as FBI Agent Mark C. Cornell
The Making of 'Tombstone' as Self

2000

Red Planet as Robby Gallagher
Pollock as Willem DeKooning

1999

Joe the King as Bob Henry
At First Sight as Virgil Adamson
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self (archive footage)
Three Days as Self

1998

Vivement dimanche as Self
The Prince of Egypt as Moses (voice)
Africa Unbottled as Self / Narrator

1997

The Saint as Simon Templar
The Doors: The Road of Excess as Self

1996

The Daily Show as Self
The Ghost and the Darkness as Col. John Henry Patterson
The Island of Dr. Moreau as Montgomery
Dead Girl as Dr. Dark
A Century of Science Fiction as Self

1995

Heat as Chris Shiherlis
Batman Forever as Bruce Wayne / Batman
Wings of Courage as Jean Mermoz
Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever? as Self - Batman

1994

Inside the Actors Studio as Self

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
Tombstone as Doc Holliday
True Romance as Mentor
The Real McCoy as J.T. Barker

1992

Thunderheart as Ray Levoi

1991

The Doors as Jim Morrison
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers as Reader

1989

Kill Me Again as Jack Andrews
Billy the Kid as William Bonney

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
Willow as Madmartigan
Willow: The Making of an Adventure as Self / Madmartigan

1987

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains as Robert Elliot Burns / Elliot Roberts

1986

Top Gun as Ice
The Murders in the Rue Morgue as Philippe Huron

1985

Real Genius as Chris Knight
One Too Many as Eric

1984

Top Secret! as Nick Rivers

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member