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2022: “Top Gun: Maverick”who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman in “Batman Forever” and portrayed Jim Morrison in “The Doors,” has died. He was 65.
Kilmer died Tuesday night in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and friends, his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, said in an email to The Associated Press. Kilmer died from pneumonia. He had recovered after a 2014 throat cancer diagnosis that required two tracheotomies. The New York Times was the first to report his death.Val Kilmer poses in Los Angeles, 1994. (AP Photo, File)Val Kilmer poses in Los Angeles, 1994. (AP Photo, File)
Kilmer, who at 17 was the youngest actor ever accepted to the prestigious Juilliard School at the time he attended, experiencedmore dramatically than most.
“I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some. I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed,” he says toward the end of
. “And I am blessed.”He was handed over to the Red Cross and taken to an area controlled by the Israeli military. “I get out of the vehicle, I look around, I see the sky, the sun. The first time, I feel safe,” he said, adding that he asked an Israeli soldier if he could hug her.
“It’s the first time in forever I feel love and warmth,” he said.Shem Tov was taken to meet his parents —
had kept his bedroom as he left it, with instructions that nobody should touch or clean it until he came home and did it himself.The untouched bedroom of hostage Omer Shem-Tov is seen in Herzliya, Israel, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)