# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/val-kilmer
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:04:06.567Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Val Edward Kilmer started on stage, making his Broadway debut in The Slab Boys in 1983, then slid into film with the comedies Top Secret! and Real Genius before the shift to leading man. Top Gun in 1986 made him Iceman; The Doors in 1991 made him Morrison; Tombstone in 1993 made him the scene-stealer as Doc Holliday. He played Batman in Batman Forever, shared the screen with De Niro and Pacino in Heat, and logged parts across comedies, westerns, crime dramas, science fiction — more than $3.85 billion in worldwide grosses. Roger Ebert called him the most unsung leading man of his generation in 1992. In 2015 came throat cancer, then chemotherapy, two tracheotomies, and a tracheal procedure that wrecked his vocal cords. He released a memoir, I'm Your Huckleberry, in 2020 and the documentary Val in 2021, both tracking his career and the fight to survive. His final film appearance was Top Gun: Maverick in 2022, reprising Iceman. He died of pneumonia on April 1, 2025, at sixty-five.