Actor Val Kilmer visits the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New York to promote the 17 … More Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative, July 20, 2019. (Photo by EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images)

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Val Kilmer, the star of such classic films as Top Gun, The Doors and Tombstone, has died, according to the New York Times. He was 65.

Val Kilmer’s daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, told the New York Times that her father died of pneumonia. Kilmer lost his speaking voice in 2014 after his treatment for throat cancer. Kilmer’s career and battle with throat cancer was chronicled in the 2021 Prime Video documentary Val.

Val Kilmer was married to fellow actor Joanne Whalley from 1988 to 1996. In addition to Mercedes Kilmer, the couple also had a son, Jack Kilmer. Val Kilmer’s son narrated his father’s documentary Val.

American actors Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott. (Photo by … More Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Kilmer rocketed to superstardom in 1986 in Top Gun, where he played Naval Aviator Tom “Iceman” Kazansky opposite Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. The actors reunited for an emotional scene in Top Gun: Maverick.

The actor also played Jim Morrison for director Oliver Stone in 1991’s The Doors, and famed gunslinger Doc Holliday opposite Kurt Russell’s Wyatt Earp in 1993’s Tombstone. Kilmer’s 2020 autobiography I’m Your Huckleberry was named for his classic line in the Tombstone.

Kilmer’s last screen role came opposite Cruise again in Top Gun: Maverick in 2022.

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